Associate Professor
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
I teach undergraduate and Honours level classes in English and Creative Writing and I research in the field of autobiography studies. I am the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and Editor (with Kate Douglas) of Telling Tales: Autobiography of Childhood and Youth (Routledge, 2015). I am the essays Editor for the Australian scholarly journal, Life Writing. My primary research interest is in practices of documenting the everyday. In my work, I focus on marginal and ordinary forms of life writing, such as essays, diaries, letters, and comics, as well as social media and digital, online modes. An ongoing attention to acts of contemporary self-representation and the politics of form that characterizes my research in general.
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence (2014)
CHASS HDR Supervision Excellence (2020)
CHASS Excellence in Teaching (2022)
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - JAN 2014
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - MAY 2017
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - MAY 2017
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - JAN 2019
Best HDR Student Publication - DEC 2020
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence - MAR 2023
Essays Editor for Life Writing
Editorial Board, LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland)
Member, IABA (International Auto/Biography Association)
Steering Committee, IABA Asia-Pacific
Co-Director, Flinders Life Narrative Research Group