Associate Professor Danielle Clode

Academic Level D

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

danielle.clode@flinders.edu.au

Humanities

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Danielle is an associate professor in creative writing and the author of several literary non-fiction books. She studied psychology and politics at Adelaide University, before completing a doctorate in zoology at Oxford. Since then she has worked as a freelance author, researcher and editor across a wide variety of science and humanities disciplines, publishing in fields as diverse as aged care, portraiture, genetics, drug addiction, history and creative writing. She has taught writing at Melbourne University and creative non-fiction at the Victorian Writers Centre before moving to Flinders in 2011. Her books include Voyages to the South Seas, A Future in Flames, The Wasp and the Orchid, and From Dinosaurs to Diprotodons. Her latest book is The Enigmatic Echidna published by Black Inc.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Adelaide University 1989
DPhil Oxford University 1993

Honours, awards and grants

2023 Whitley Award for Best Popular Ecology Book - Koala: A life in trees
2023 International Maritime Film Festival Feature Film runner-up - French Voyages of Discovery
2022 Adelaide Festival Awards nonfiction shortlist - In Search of the Woman who Sailed the World
2022 Indo French International Film Festival - Best Documentary Short Film - French Voyages of Discovery
2021 WritersSA Regional Writer in Residence
2019 National Biography Award shortlist - The Wasp and the Orchid
2019 Text Literary Prize shortlist - Tellurian Blue
2018 Federation of Australian Writers Prize for Excellence in Nonfiction - The Wasp and the Orchid
2018 Max Fatchen Fellowship, Adelaide Festival Awards - Tellurian Blue
2016 Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology Book - Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea
2016 CBCA Notable Book - Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea
2014 Australia Council Literature Award - Fiction - Due South
2014 Inaugural Dahl Trust Fellow (Australian Book Review) - Seeing the wood for the trees
2013 Moran Award for History of Science (Australian Academy of Science)
2013 Australian Orchid Foundation Award - The Wasp and the Orchid
2010 CBCA Notable Book - Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia
2009 Redmond Barry Fellow, Melbourne University - A Future in Flames
2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction - Voyages to the South Seas
2006 Creative Fellow, State Library of Victoria - Voyages to the South Seas
1998 Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellow - A Continent of Curiosities
1990 Rhodes Scholar SA