Denise Chapman

Dr. Denise Chapman is a passionate digital media-creator, spoken word artist, and critical autoethnographer who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy and technology at Monash University. She’s served as a literacy specialist focused on home literacies, critical media literacy, and culturally-sustaining partnerships within diverse communities in Australia and the USA. Denise uses oral folktales, children’s literature, film, and interactive digital content as windows for critical thinking and transformative, emancipatory opportunities. As part of the Learning with New Media Group, Denise’s current research prioritises communities experiencing marginalisation and employs participatory, visual, creative, and narrative methods to illuminate inequities for social change.

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