Mirren Strahan

Mirren is a recent Honours graduate in Literary Studies from Monash University and majored in Indonesian language, literary studies and music composition. She has spent much of her time this year pursuing independent research in the realms of publishing studies, digital humanities and literary sociology; and recently presented at the Electronic Literature Organisation 2022 conference (ELO22) in May/June this year. Her paper discussed BookTok’s affect-driven and post-critical book review culture. Outside of academic research, she is also a violin teacher for an El Sistema program based in Laverton and loves to play Scrabble. You can find Mirren’s nascent BookTok account under the TikTok handle: @geraldine_thebookwench.