Dr. Stephanie Harkin
Details
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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stephanie.harkin@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-4781-4891
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Stephanie Harkin is a Lecturer in RMIT's Games Program. She researches feminine gaming cultures and digital histories and is a board member of the Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA).
Stephanie's research is interdisciplinary and archival, and has involved collaboration with preservation initiatives and institutions including the National Film and Sound Archive (NSFA), the Play it Again Project, and the AUS EaaSI (Emulation as a Service Infrastructure) network. She is author of the monograph Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity, and Coming of Age in Video Games (De Gruyter, 2025) and has published in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Game Studies, Games & Culture, Girlhood Studies, and Journal of Femininities. She is the lead curator for Feminine Play, an exhibition that celebrates femininity and subverts gendered traditions. Her research philosophy is steered towards accounting for the unaccounted.
Research fields
- 460703 Entertainment and gaming
- 4405 Gender studies
- 440501 Feminist and queer theory
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 470214 Screen and media culture
- 360504 Interactive media
- 440509 Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
- 461001 Digital curation and preservation
Supervisor projects
- Transience of Place: Knowing, Forgetting and Playing
- 12 Aug 2024
Teaching interests
Units delivered include:
- Principals of Play 2
- Games and Culture
- Game Studies
- Play Futures
Research interests
- Game and interactive media studies
- Critical Femininities
- Digital preservation
- Web cultures
- Magazine studies
- Australian gaming histories
- Youth cultural production
- Young people and entrepreneurism
