Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston

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.

She has published extensively on the intersections of literature, psychology, and politics in settler and First Nations writing. Her debut monograph is titled Polities and Poetics: race relations and reconciliation in Australian Literature (2021).

Adelle is a published poet, and co-founder of NT literary journal Borderlands. Her respective publications concerning literary journal culture, contemporary literary theory and creative writing practice are of Q1 standard. Adelle has extensive experience supervising postgraduate students who are working on their own novels and supporting them through the reflexive and exegetical process.