Rate My Professor Rachel Franks

Franks maintains an extensive publication record across books, chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. Notable books include The Real and the Reflected: Heroes and Villains in Existent and Imagined Worlds (2020, co-edited with Susan E. Meindl), Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator (2016, co-edited with Alistair Rolls), With(out) Trace: Interdisciplinary Investigations into Time, Space and the Body (2016, co-edited with Simon Dwyer and Reina Green), and The Letter of the Law: Contemporary Debates on Language, Dignity and the Punished Body (2014). Key chapters feature Facts and Fictions: The Liminal Space Between True Crime and Crime Fiction (2024), Visualising Villains: Crafting Criminals in Australian Crime Fiction (2020), and Cold Case: Investigating Time, Space and the Body in Agatha Christie’s Five Little Pigs (1942) (2019). Prominent journal articles encompass Myths, Media, and Judicial Execution: Writing the Biography of Hangman Robert Howard (2023, Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture) and True Crime: The Regular Reinvention of a Genre (2016). She has edited special issues such as TEXT Special Issue 37: Crime Fiction: The Creative/Critical Nexus (with Jesper Gulddal and Alistair Rolls) and themed issues of M/C Journal. Franks has earned the 2017 PopCAANZ Outstanding Contribution Award, the 2016 AAWP Most Outstanding Critical/Theoretical Paper Award, and the 2015 Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship from the State Library of New South Wales, reflecting her influence in popular culture studies, crime fiction scholarship, and librarianship.