Dr Whitney Monaghan is a Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. She is a teacher of media, strategic communications, film and screen studies and a research expert in queer and feminist media studies. 

Her PhD research on the representation of queer girlhood is published as the monograph Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not ‘Just a Phase’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is the co-author of Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures (Red Globe Press, 2019) and co-editor of Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). 

Dr Monaghan has additional research interests in television cultures, teen screen cultures and media studies pedagogy. Her current projects seek to examine LGBTIQ representation on screen, uncover Australia's queer TV histories, and establish best practice for teaching screen and media studies in a post-pandemic world.

Dr Monaghan is also the founder and co-editor of Peephole Journal and coordinator of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.