Elizabeth Smyth is a writer and researcher with a focus on literary representation and experience of place. Her creative-practice research engages with regionalism, ecocriticism, and the georgic to respond to contemporary social and environmental issues and concerns. She writes both long and short forms of narrative prose set in the Australian Wet Tropics.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Research associate, Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing
  • 2023–2023
    Research assistant, Australian National University

Education

  • 2023 
    James Cook University, PhD
  • 2019 
    Charles Sturt University, Master of Information Studies (Librarianship)

Publications

  • 2024
    Meanjin, 83.1 Autumn

Professional Memberships

  • Association for the Study of Australian Literature
  • Australasian Association of Writing Programs

Honours

Medal for Excellence for a Higher Degree by Research Thesis

Contact Elizabeth for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision