Dr Terrie Waddell (PhD) is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Arts and English. Her research focuses on the relationship between screen media, gender, popular culture and psychology – her most recent book, The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film: Jung, Story and Playing Beneath the Past (Routledge), was released in 2019. She has also authored Wild/lives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen (Routledge, 2010), Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction (Routledge, 2006), and co-edited The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies - Transnational Cinema section (Routledge 2018) and Eavesdropping: The Psychotherapist in Film and Television (Routledge 2015). She is the co-founder of 'Psychology of the Moving Image International' (PAMII).
As PhD supervisor with two candidates winning the 'Nancy Millis' award for outstanding doctoral theses, Terrie received the 2017 award for Research Supervisor by the La Trobe University Student Union for 'exceptional dedication to the student learning experience for graduate students'.