Visiting Fellows
The Roderick Centre offers four tiers of fellowship designed to support distinguished writers, scholars, educators, and sector leaders whose work aligns with the Centre’s mission in Australian literature, creative writing, education, regional humanities, and public engagement.
1. Roderick Annual Fellowship
The Roderick Annual Fellowship is the Centre’s prestige fellowship, offered by invitation to an outstanding writer, scholar, educator, or cultural leader whose work has national or international significance. The Annual Fellow contributes to the intellectual and public life of the Centre across the year through a sustained program of engagement, which may include research collaboration, public lectures, workshops, mentoring, school or community outreach, and strategic advice.
2. Roderick Visiting Fellowship: Australian Literature and Creative Writing
The Roderick Visiting Fellowship in Australian Literature and Creative Writing is offered through an Expression of Interest process. It supports writers, scholars, and creative practitioners whose work advances Australian literary studies, creative writing, publishing, storytelling, or related fields. Fellows may undertake research, develop creative projects, contribute to seminars or public events, engage with students and staff, and build connections with the Centre’s regional, national, and international networks.
3. Roderick Teaching Excellence Fellowship
The Roderick Teaching Excellence Fellowship—offered by application—supports outstanding educators whose work strengthens teaching, curriculum, outreach, and the secondary–tertiary nexus in English, literature, or creative writing. This fellowship recognises that teaching excellence is central to the Centre’s mission, particularly in regional Australia, where pathways between schools, universities, communities, and cultural organisations are vital.
4. Roderick Occasional Fellowships
Roderick Occasional Fellowships, offered by invitation, provide a flexible mechanism for supporting shorter-term or project-specific visits, collaborations, residencies, workshops, or public engagements. These fellowships allow the Centre to respond to emerging opportunities, invite distinguished guests, support strategic partnerships, and extend its program of research, creative practice, teaching, and community engagement throughout the year
2025 Visiting Fellows
Dr Meg Brayshaw
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Meg is the John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. Broadly interested in the intersection of literary cultures and forms with history, politics, and the environment, she has published on a range of topics including Australian modernism, urban literature, melodrama, crime fiction, and the Anthropocene as narrative form. She is currently working on two projects: a literary history of mining in…
Dr Robert Clarke
School of Humanities, University of Tasmania
Robert is a senior lecturer in the English & Writing Program, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He is the author of Travel Writing From Black Australia (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (2018), and Celebrity Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures Colonialism (2009). His research focuses on travel writing, postcolonial and Australian literature, and social reading
Dr Dashiell Moore
Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney
Dashiell is an ARC DECRA Fellow in English at the University of Sydney. His research is in the fields of world literature, island studies, and postcolonial theory, with a particular geographical concentration in Australia, the Caribbean and Oceania. A key focus of his work is on inter-colonial intersections in literary production, which was the subject of his recent monograph, The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia…
Dr Keyvan Allahyari
Department of English, University of Tübingen
Keyvan (PhD Melbourne, 2019) is Junior Professor in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of Jena. Previously, he held Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oslo, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tübingen, Fryer Library Fellowship at the University of Queensland, and Emerging Critics Fellowship at Sydney Review of Books. He is the author of Peter Carey: The Making of a Global…
2024 Visiting Fellows
Emeritus Professor Philip Mead
School of Humanities, University of Western Australia
Emeritus Professor Philip Mead is the inaugural visiting fellow at the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. A strong and continuing advocate for Australian literary studies, his research is conducted at the intersections of national and transnational literary studies, cultural history and theory, poetics, literary education, literary regionalism, and digital humanities.
Dr Rose Michael
School of Media and Communication, RMIT
Senior Lecturer in writing and publishing at RMIT, Rose Michael has published speculative fiction in Island, Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Antipodes, and speculative criticism in TEXT, The Conversation, Sydney Review of Books and Reading Like an Australian Writer.
Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston
Faculty of Arts & Society, Humanities, Charles Darwin University
Adelle is a senior Fulbright scholar and lectures in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at Charles Darwin University. She specialises in contemporary Australian literature, particularly settler narratives of Australian identity politics, race relations, and reconciliation in poetry and prose.