The Reading Writing Futures group offers one of Australia's largest PhD programs in literary studies and creative writing. We combine creative and critical methods to explore how literature shapes political agendas and affects our interactions with others and the world. Our research reexamines connections between cultural expressions, individuals and communities, and beings and places.
The School of Communication and Creative Arts conducts impactful research, collaborating with government, industry and non-profits. The Reading Writing Futures group has seven research streams.
Featuring award-winning writers, we explore literature's connections to settler-colonialism, its potential for decolonialism, representations of place, storytelling forms, print culture, and the importance of regional and global networks.
Featuring award-winning writers, we explore literature's connections to settler-colonialism, its potential for decolonialism, representations of place, storytelling forms, print culture, and the importance of regional and global networks.
We examine fan cultures and the interplay between genre fiction and politics, drawing on our expertise in fantasy and romance fiction.
We unite prominent writers and scholars in auto biography, autofiction, creative nonfiction and memoir to explore the potential forms of contemporary life writing and reimagine our interactions with the archive.
Our group of prominent and emerging poet-scholars is engaged in various fields, including First Nations poetries, public poetry, cross-disciplinary forms (like prose poetry and ekphrasis), social poetics, and translation.
We focus on interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis on feminist and LGBTIQ+ writing, exploring topics from local to transnational contexts. Our particular interest lies in research related to archives, education, diaspora and inclusion.
We examine embodied writing and performance, alongside the influence of AI technologies on writing, reading, and pedagogy, and the interplay between physical and virtual spaces.
Join our esteemed researchers in exploring how we use writing and reading to imagine possible futures. Connect with our researchers, learn more about our projects or discuss partnership opportunities.
The Reading Writing Futures group delivers innovative projects through our extensive professorial team.
Professor Ann Vickery is a professor of writing and literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, with research interests in social poetics, 20th and 21st century American and Australian poetry, modernism in both countries, archival methodologies and literary feminisms.
Dr Andrew Dean is a lecturer in writing and literature at the School of Communication and Creative Arts, with research focused on late 19th, 20th, and 21st century anglophone and American literature.
Professor Cassandra Atherton, Associate Head of School, Research
Dr Robin Bellingham, Senior Lecturer, Pedagogy and Curriculum
Associate Professor Geoff Boucher, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature
Professor Clare Bradford, Emeritus Professor
Dr Gilbert Caluya, Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor Marion Campbell, Visitor
Associate Professor Sue Chen, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature
Dr Evelyn Araluen Corr, Lecturer
Dr Andrew Dean, Lecturer in Writing and Literature
Dr Jonathan Dunk, Lecturer
Hayley Elliott-Ryan, Associate Lecturer, Writing, Literature and Culture
Dr Rachel Fetherston, Lecturer
Dr Karen Le Rossignol, Senior Lecturer
Dr Janine Little, Senior Lecturer in Communication
Dr Ramon Lopez Castellano, Lecturer in Spanish
Dr Stefanie Markidis, Lecturer
Dr Jodi McAlister, Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature
Professor David McCooey, Personal Chair
Professor Lyn Mc Credden, Emeritus Professor
Dr Alyson Miller, Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Kristine Moruzi, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature
Associate Professor Antonia Pont, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature
Professor Emily Potter, Professor, Writing and Literature
Dr Lenise Prater, Teaching Scholar, Creative Writing and Literature
Dr Bronwyn Reddan, Research Fellow, Pathways to Teenage Reading
Associate Professor Leonie Rutherford, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature
Dr Adriano Tedde, Lecturer, Strategic and American Studies
Dr Paul Venzo, Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature
Professor Ann Vickery, Professor, Writing and Literature
Associate Professor Patrick West, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature
Dr Helen Young, Senior Research Fellow (Future Fellowship)
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta, Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Knowledges
Our collaborations with government, community and industry enable impactful research and innovative solutions.
This Future Fellowship project, led by Dr. Helen Young, seeks to explore how narratives of the medieval past shape identities and propagate ideologies today, transcending political, temporal and national boundaries.
Led by Associate Professor Sue Chen, this project explores the communication and translation of science to young readers through literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines how children’s literature fostered scientific literacy and cultivated early interest in science.
Our ties with external partners ensure that our research connects with industry and community. Our partners include:
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