Ashley Pearson Email & Phone Number

Dr Ashley Pearson joined the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast as a law lecturer in 2020 and has previously worked at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology in a variety of teaching and research roles.Ashley's research focuses on the nexus between law and culture, with a particular interest in the tracings of law within and through video games, transmedial narratives, fandom, and technology. She has presented at the premier conferences in her field throughout Australasia, and publishes regularly and widely within interdisciplinary legal circles. After completing her PhD in August 2019, Ashley is currently working to adapt her PhD thesis, 'Legal Personhood in Video Games, Canonical Media and Fandom' into a monograph.As an eager collaborator, Ashley was the lead editor on the Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture edited collection published with Routledge in 2018 and is currently one of the editors of the Cultural Legalities of Video Games and Virtual Reality collection with its anticipated publication in 2022. She is also the current president of the Graphic Justice Research Alliance which fosters connections between law, comics and justice.