Researchers

The Writing & Society Research Centre brings together scholars in the humanities, writers, and members of the publishing industry, who have a common interest in exploring the social power of writing.

Follow the links below for information on individual Centre members. Contact details are available via the staff directory.

Sabrina Achilles

Lecturer

A Deleuze and Guattari scholar whose research interests include continental philosophy, theories and philosophies of writing, and ethics and trauma in literature.

Chris Andrews

Senior Lecturer

A translator of Spanish-language fiction whose research interests include contemporary Latin American fiction, modern French fiction and poetry and experimental formalism in literature.

Maria Angel

Senior Lecturer

A scholar whose interests include writing and affect, and bio-evolutionary theories of human communication.

Michael Atherton

Professor

An ethnomusicologist, musician and composer who focuses on choral and vocal settings of poetry, intercultural performance, cross-artform collaboration, and connections between music and literature.

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

Research Fellow

Scholar and researcher in postcolonial and Indian subcontinental literatures, studies in nationalism, feminism, diaspora, translation theory, culinary cultures, public intellectuals and Bombay cinema.

Dianne Dickenson

Lecturer

A scholar whose research interests include children's literature and culture.

Milissa Deitz

Lecturer

Worked as a journalist for 15 years, her research interests include convergent and participatory media, social media, surrogacy, culture jamming and online identities.

Chris Eagle

Lecturer

A scholar whose research interests include philosophy and literature, linguistic and semiotic approaches to literature, and speech pathology.

Kate Fagan

Lecturer

A writer, editor and musician whose research interests include Australian poetry and literature, C20th American literature, cultural and literary theory, innovative poetics and contemporary music.

Chris Fleming

Senior Lecturer

A René Girard scholar whose research interests include philosophy, literary theory, and cultural and social analysis.

Anna Gibbs

Associate Professor

A writer & scholar whose research interests include fictocriticism, affect theory, psychoanalysis,  French philosophies of writing, poetics, hybrid arts, experimental & digital media writing.

Ivor Indyk

Whitlam Chair

A publisher and literary critic whose research interests include Australian literature and literary publishing.

Gail Jones

Professor

A novelist and scholar whose interests include narrative, cinema, cultural studies, contemporary literature and Australian literature.

Sara Knox

Associate Professor

A novelist and scholar whose research interests include historical fiction, death, violence and representation.

Alex Ling

Lecturer

A scholar whose research interests include contemporary European philosophy, film theory and history, mathematics and logic, psychoanalysis, and visual art and culture.

Rachel Morley

Lecturer

A scholar whose research includes life writing and creative non-fiction; qualitative research theory/practice (including ethnographies of writing and representation); archival studies; and affect and writing.

Matthew McGuire

Lecturer

A novelist and scholar whose research interests include crime fiction, Scottish and Irish literature.

Chris Peterson

Lecturer

A scholar researching the intersection of race and animality in fiction whose interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, sexuality studies, and critical theory.

Neil Ramsey

Postdoctoral Fellow

Neil Ramsey’s research focuses on war and literature, with particular reference to the eighteenth century and Romantic eras. His research interests also include life writing, travel writing and poetry.

Catherine Rey

Research Fellow

An novelist and scholar whose research interests include the adoption of French as a literary language by the Eastern European writers.

Lorraine Sim

Lecturer

A scholar whose research interests include modernism and modernity, Virginia Woolf, theories and cultural histories of the everyday, and the intersections between literature and philosophy.

Hazel Smith

Professor

A poet and scholar whose research interests include new media writing, contemporary poetry, experimental and postmodernist writing and musico-literary discourse.

Anthony Uhlmann

Professor

A renowned Beckett scholar whose research interests include modernist aesthetics, literature and philosophy, and literary form.

Dimitris Vardoulakis

Lecturer

A scholar whose research interests include deconstruction, biopolitics, Carl Schmitt, Spinoza, Walter Benjamin, and Greek literature.

Alexis Wright

Distinguished Research Fellow

A novelist whose works include the Miles Franklin Prize winning Carpentaria
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