// Academic 
// Researcher 
// Writer 
My research broadly concerns the literary and cultural representation of gender, sexual, and bodily diversity.
In my research, I am deeply interested in how literary and cultural texts reflect and transform shared understandings of gender, desire, and the body in a rapidly changing world.
My current research interests include transgender representation, disability representation, horror and thriller cinema, young adult literature, Australian literature, and alternative children’s literature publishing.
See below for details about my existing and forthcoming research publications.
BOOK
In Youth Fiction and Trans Representation I outline and analyse the emergence of various kinds of trans and gender diverse representation in children’s and young adult literature, television, and film.
I focus on how texts for young people, while often showcasing deep-seated anxieties about gender normativity, can reflect and contribute to changing and liberatory understandings of youth and gender in the twenty-first century.
This book was published in Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture Series (Eds. Kenneth Kidd and Elizabeth Marshall).
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PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS
Holdsworth, D and Sandercock, Tom. (2023). “Haunting the Family: Crip-Trans Ghosts in Paranormal Horror Films.” Writing From Below. 6(1).
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Sandercock, Tom. (2015). “Transing the Small Screen: Loving and Hating Transgender Youth in Glee and Degrassi.” Journal of Gender Studies. 24(4), pp. 436-452.
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Sandercock, Tom. (2014) "'Stanley Schupak Doesn’t Live Here Anymore': Un/Becoming Transsexual and Coming Home in Duncan Tucker’s Transamerica." Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge. 30.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
Sandercock, Tom. (Accepted 2024). “Embodying Difference: Gender and Race in Young Adult Body-Swap Films” in K Wilkins and W Moss-Wellington (eds.) Body Swap Cinema, Berghahn Books, New York.
Sandercock, Tom. (In Press 2024). “Emerging Subjects: Trans Young Adult Literature” in C Hill and V Malo-Juvera (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Young Adult Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Sandercock, Tom. (2018). “Transing the Small Screen: Loving and Hating Transgender Youth in Glee and Degrassi” in R Luyt, C Welch, & R Lobban (eds.) Diversity in Gender and Visual Representation, Routledge, London
BOOK REVIEWS
Sandercock, Tom. (2020). “Review: Books for Boys: Manipulating Genre in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction by Troy Potter.” International Research in Children’s Literature:
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