Creative Writing
Bio: Jen Webb studied in South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and Australia, She holds a PhD in Cultural theory (art and society and a DCA in writing (creativity and embodiment). Read more
Ms Felicity Packard
Lecturer
Writing
Bio: Felicity Packard teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, across a range of creative writing and reading related subjects including screenwriting, prose writing, literary studies, cultural theory and research methods. Her particular focus however, is on writing for the screen. Read more
Dr Paul Magee
Associate Professor
Writing
Bio: Paul Magee studied in Melbourne, Moscow, San Salvador and Sydney. His first book, From Here to Tierra del Fuego, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2000. It was based on fieldwork in the far South of South America. His second, Cube Root of Book, was published by John Leonard Press in 2006. Read more
Dr Anthony Eaton
Assistant Professor
Writing
Bio: Dr. Anthony Eaton has been writing professionally since the late -1990s, when his first book, The Darkness was published by the University of Queensland Press and went on to win the Western Australian Premiers Award for Young Adult Literature. Since then, hes written 11 novels for children, young adults, and adults, and his books have been recognised in a number of national and international awards. Read more
Ms Sarah St Vincent Welch
Lecturer
Writing
Bio: Sarah St Vincent Welch studied English Literature at the University of Sydney and Media at the University of Canberra. She tutors and lectures at the University of Canberra in Creative Writing, and has also run writing workshops for many different groups in the community. Her work is published mainly in independent magazines and anthologies, and she has also worked as an editor. Read more
Dr Jordan Williams
Lecturer
Writing
Bio: Jordan Williams has a PhD in Communication awarded for her creative thesis combining cultural theory and new media poetry to do with space, place and embodiment. She teaches in the writing and communication programs at the University of Canberra and chairs supervisory panels for a number of postgraduate research students in the creative writing discipline area. Read more
Dr Paul Hetherington
Associate Professor
Writing
Bio: Paul Hetherington holds a PhD in literature and has published eight collections of poetry. He edited and introduced the final three volumes of the National Library of Australia’s four-volume edition of the diaries of the artist Donald Friend. He was founding editor of the quarterly humanities and literary journal Voices (1991–97). Read more
Prof Greg Battye
Deputy Dean
Bio: Since completing his Doctorate at Wollongong in 2001 on connections between photography and narrative theory, he has branched out further into explorations of narrative forms and structures, in both conventional and non-conventional writing and in areas of cultural production not ordinarily seen as narrative. Read more
Dr Scott Brook
Assistant Professor
Writing
Bio: Scott Brook was educated at Swinburne Community School and the Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne. Before joining the University of Canberra he taught cultural policy studies and creative writing at the University of Melbourne where he was also Project Manager for a cultural policy review for the City of Whittlesea. In 2003/04 he was a regular writer for Spinach7 magazine and in 2003 received an Australia Council grant to edit the collection West of the West: writing, images and sound from Melbourne’s west. Read more
Prof Matthew Ricketson
Lecturer
Journalism 
Bio: Matthew Ricketson is a journalist and academic who has worked on staff at The Age, The Australian and Time Australia magazine, among other publications, and has run the Journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. Unlike many journalism academics who come to the academy after finishing a career in the news media, Matthew has moved back and forth between the two in his career, which began at the local newspaper chain, Standard News, in Melbourne, in 1981. Read more
Teaching Fellow 
Bio: In February 2010 Josh Rosner began a PhD in the Faculty of Arts and Design, writing a thesis addressing the role of the personal essay in post-unified Germany. In February 2011 he was appointed Teaching Fellow in the discipline of Journalism and Communication. His research focuses on the essay, German-language memoir, Journalism and democracy, the history of polemic journalism and collective memory and the city. Read more