Personal information

Verified email addresses

Verified email domains

critical disability studies, queer studies, children's literature, animation, neurodivergence, neuroqueer

Biography

Rachel Milne is a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar, conducting her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. Her research sits at the intersections between Critical Disability Studies, Critical Neurodiversity Studies, and Queer Studies in children's literature and film. She holds a BA (Hons) in Media from Queen Margaret University, and an MLitt in Comparative Literature from the University of Glasgow. She is an Associate Editor for Mapping the Impossible, and a member of the Executive Committee for the British Comparative Literature Association, for whom she is also Postgraduate Representative.

Activities

Employment (6)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2024-10 to present | Undergraduate Supervisor (Faculty of Education)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Musselburgh, GB

2023-01 to 2024-07 | Assistant Lecturer in Film and Media (Media, Communications and Performing Arts)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Edinburgh, GB

2023-07 to 2023-11 | Research Assistant (Psychology, Sociology and Education)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Musselburgh, East Lothian, GB

2022-10 to 2023-07 | Peer Assisted Learning Scheme Coordinator (Widening Participation and Outreach)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Musselburgh, GB

2023-02 to 2023-05 | Research Assistant: Our Cinema (Media, Communications and Performing Arts)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Musselburgh, East Lothian, GB

2022-05 to 2022-10 | Research Assistant (Widening Participation and Outreach)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2023-10 to present | PhD Education (Faculty of Education)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Scotland, GB

2021-09 to 2022-10 | MLitt Comparative Literature (School of Modern Languages and Cultures)
Qualification
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Edinburgh, GB

2017-09-07 to 2021-07-01 | BA (Hons) Media (Media, Communications and Performing Arts)
Qualification
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Professional activities (6)

Mapping the Impossible Journal: Glasgow, GB

2023-12 to present | Associate Editor (Editorial Board)
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

British Comparative Literature Association: London, GB

2023-03 to present | Postgraduate Representative
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies: London, GB

2024-05 | Honourable Mention: PGR Poster Competition
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Queen Margaret University: Musselburgh, East Lothian, GB

2023-01 to 2023-05 | Visiting Lecturer (Media, Communications and Performing Arts)
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies: London, GB

2023-04 | Runner-up: The Richard Dyer Essay Prize (LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies SIG)
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Northeast Popular and American Culture Association: New York, US

2021-10 | Conference paper shortlisted for Carol Mitchell prize and Amos St. Germain prize
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Funding (1)

Neuroqueer Chilren's Literature

2023-10 to 2027-10 | Grant
Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme (Cambridge, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

Works (6)

Hidden for whom? Representational exposure as a tool for disability inclusion in the primary school classroom: A response to Dr Jones

Psychology of Education Review
2024-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1463-9807
Part of ISSN: 2396-8788
Contributors: Rachel Milne
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

‘Fun, fierce and frivolous’: Afrobubblegum and the possibilities of queer African love in Rafiki

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture
2023-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel Milne
Source: check_circle
Crossref

The Mad, the Queer, and the Posthuman: Extraordinary Embodiments in Wonderland and Oz

2022-09-06 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Rachel Milne
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Negotiating Alterity in Wonderland and Oz

Child of the Future Blog, University of Cambridge
2022-06-04 | Interactive resource
Contributors: Rachel Milne
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne

The beautiful and the damned: Depictions of Scottish childhoods in Small Deaths and Gasman

Short Film Studies
2021-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel Milne
Source: check_circle
Crossref

Ugly Monsters and Childlike Innocents: Constructions of Disability and Narratives of the Body in Disney's Animated Films for Children

2021-05-20 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Rachel Milne
Source: Self-asserted source
Rachel Milne