Dylan Holdsworth

Presentations

2025

  • Holdsworth D & Sandercock T. “Filth and Frenzy: Sex and Death in Crip-Trans Horror and Thriller Cinema”, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference, 26-28 November.
  • Holdsworth D. “Care, Community and Challenge: Cripistemology and Australian Polio Survivor Life Narratives”, Association for the Study of Australian Literature and International Auto-Biography Association conference, Flinders University, 30 June-4 July.
  • Holdsworth D. “Narratology and the editorial toolbox”, Q-Lit Masterclass, 15 February.

2024

  • Holdsworth D. “Crip Future Histories in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction”, Crip Kid Lit: Critical Approaches to Disability in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media Symposium, University of Cambridge, 19-20 April.

2021

  • Holdsworth D & Sandercock T. “Double Feature: Re-Viewing Disability and Transgender Representation in Horror and Thriller Cinema”, Deakin New Futures Symposium, Deakin University, 11-12 November.

2018

  • Holdsworth D & Sandercock T. “Not a Happy Camper: Re-Viewing the Dynamic Between Mental Illness and Transgender Subjectivity in the 1980s Teen Slasher Film Sleepaway Camp”, Australian Women’s and Gender Study Association Biennial Conference, Deakin University, 22-24 November.

2016

  • Holdsworth D. “‘Andy Lived Behind a Closed Window’: Disability, Spatiality and Australia in ‘I Own the Racecourse!’ and Let the Balloon Go“, Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research Biennial Conference, Charles Sturt University, 13-15 July.
  • Holdsworth D. “‘Andy Lived Behind a Closed Window’: Disability, Spatiality and Australia in ‘I Own the Racecourse!’ and Let the Balloon Go“, Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, UNSW Canberra and the National Library of Australia, 6-9 July.

2014

  • Holdsworth D. “‘Conceal, Don’t Feel’: Monstrosity and the Transmission of Affect in Edward Scissorhands and Frozen“, Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research Biennial Conference, Deakin University, 30 June-2 July.

2013

  • Holdsworth D. “Goblin-ology”, Liberty and Limits: 1789-1920, Macquarie University, 5-6 December.
  • Holdsworth D. “Glee-ability: Disability in Glee“, presented in the panel The Glee Project: Transmediality and Cultural Stereotypes for Young People with Sandercock T & Whatman E, International Research Society for Children’s Literature Biennial Conference, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 10-14 August.

2012

  • Holdsworth D. “More Than Ripples in the Australian Literature Pond: Disability and Masculinity in Alan Marshall’s I Can Jump Puddles“, The Gender Games: Stories in/for the Contemporary World symposium, Deakin University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, 26-27 November.
  • Holdsworth D. “More Than Ripples in the Australian Literature Pond: Disability and Masculinity in Alan Marshall’s I Can Jump Puddles“, Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Biennial Conference, UNSW, 21-23 November.
  • Holdsworth D. “Disabled Masculinity/Masculinity Disabled: An Examination of Representations of Disabled Men in the Contemporary Australian Novel”, DUSA Postgraduate Conference, Deakin University, 12 July.