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Dr Rachel Robertson
BA (Hons) UWA 1984. MPhil (Women's Studies) UWA 1994.
PhD Curtin University 2011.-
- Role:
- Lecturer
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- Department:
- Dept of Communication & Cultural Studies
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- Location:
- Building 208 409
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- Telephone:
- +61 8 9266 2615
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- Email:
- R.Robertson@curtin.edu.au
Dr Rachel Robertson is a writer and lecturer in Professional Writing and Publishing at Curtin University. She has a BA (Honours) and MPhil from UWA and a PhD from Curtin University. Her short fiction and essays have been published in journals and anthologies such as Griffith Review, Island, Best Australian Essays, Australian Book Review and Sitelines. Her first book, Reaching One Thousand: a story of love, motherhood and autism, was published by Black Inc in early 2012.
Research Interests
Rachel's research interests are life writing, Disability Studies and writing creative non-fiction.
Research Projects
eScholarship Project 2011
Research on employers' requirements for Professional Writing graduates.
Life writing about 'everyday grief' and ambiguous loss.
Teaching - Undergraduate
Writing Creative Non-Fiction 310
Writing and Research for Professional Contexts 311
Professional Placement Unit 321
Writing, Deception and Authenticity 220
Memberships
Full Member, Australian Society of Authors.
Awards
Prizes
Gladys I. Wade Prize, James Bourke Memorial Prize in English, Convocation Prize in Arts, UWA 1984
Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award, Curtin University, 2007
Calibre Award for Outstanding Essay, Australian Book Review, 2008
Shortlisted for Varuna/Griffith Review Essay Competition 2010
Publications
‘Of Winter, a Witch and a White Pompom’, Keep Watching the Skies, Lulu Books, 2004
‘Night Story’, Island, Summer, 2005
‘Missing Presumed Happy’, Sitelines, Vol 3, No 2, Spring 2006
‘Reaching One Thousand’, Australian Book Review, February 2008; reprinted in Best Australian Essays 2008 edited by David Marr, Black Inc., 2008
‘Underwater World’, Island, Winter 2008; reprinted in Lines in the Sand: New Writing from WA, published by Fellowship of Writers WA Branch, May 2008
‘Whose Story Is It?’, Australian Book Review, July 2008
‘The Sketch’, Re-placement edited by Janie Conway-Herron, Southern University Press, 2008
‘Bonus’, Griffith Review, Vol 22, Spring 2008; reprinted in Australian Financial Review, 5 December 2008
‘On Pomegranates and Life Stories: An Interlude’, Indigo, Vol 3, Summer 2009
‘Sharing Stories’, Disability and Mothering edited by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson & Jen Cellio. Syracuse University Press, 2011
Reaching One Thousand: a story of love, motherhood and autism. Black Inc., 2012
Publications
Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)
- Robertson, R. 2011. Sharing Stories: Motherhood, Autism and Culture. In Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge, eds Cynthia lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio, 140-155. New York: Syracuse University Press.
Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)
- Robertson, R. 2010. Carving, Forging, Stealing. Life Writing 7:3: 305-315.
- Robertson, R. 2010. Geometry of Echoes. Westerly 55(2): 211-227.
