Humanities and Social Sciences

English Program

Staff Directory

Research areas:

• Fiction writing (including technical and discursive elements)
• Women's writing
• Migration stories (particularly the relationship between place, ideas of belonging and the body)

Current projects:

• A novel based on the lives of Elizabethan women

Current Teaching areas:

• Fiction writing
• Literary studies

Selected publications:

Books:

• Sibyl's Cave. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2004.

Book chapter:

• "Writing 'Home': Lived Bodies and Imaginary Journeys. "Landscapes, Exile, Belonging, Home. Eds. Terri-ann White, Wendy Were and Susan Ballyn: Cambridge Scholars Press, (Forthcoming).

Excerpts:

• "She Must Have Crawled Out". Excerpt from novel. The Weekend Australian September 22-23 2001, sec. Review: R13.

Articles:

• Padmore, C, 2009 (forthcoming), 'Telling home stories', Life Writing, 6.2
• Padmore, C, 2009,'Writing 'Amye Duddley': seeking clues in books, bones and stones', TEXT (Special Issue No. 5: Proceedings of the Art of the Real: National Creative Non-fiction Conference, Newcastle University, May 2008)
• 'What does fiction do?: On Dead Europe, ethics and aesthetics' [interview with Christos Tsiolkas]. ALS (2008)
• 'Future Tense: Dead Europe and viral anti-Semitism.' ALS (2008)
• "'Blood and Land and Ghosts': Haunting Words in Christos Tsiolkas's Dead Europe." JASAL 6 (2007): 52-64. Available online through: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/326/467.

• Padmore, Catherine. "Fragmented and Entwined: Migration Stories in Sibyl’s Cave and Other Australian Fiction." JASAL 5 (2006): 25-38. Available online through: www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal.
• "Books: 'Against My Ruins'." TEXT 6.1 (2002). Available: www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/april02/padmore.htm.
• "A Leaf from the Sibyl's Book." TEXT 4.2 (2000). Available: www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/oct00/padmore.htm.
• "Significant Flesh: Cosmetic Surgery, Physiognomy, and the Erasure of Visual Difference(s)." Lateral 1 (1998). Available online through: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/01999-Jul-2/http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www.english/lateral/simple_cp1.htm

Short creative work:

• Padmore, C, 2009 (forthcoming), 'Preludes (to a train rhythm)', Melbourne Reflections, Poetica Christi Press, Melbourne
• Padmore, C, 2009, 'When the writing's on the wall', The Big Issue, No 329 (19 May-1 June), p. 29.
• Padmore, C, 2008, 'This (composting) life', The Australian, 27 Dec., p. 2 [Review section]
• 'Rentless light'. Island 112 (2008): 43-48.
• "Water Therapy." Dotlit 3.1 (2002). Available: www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/200201/water.html.
• "Venus Rising." Antithesis 9 (1998).

Prizes:

• Sibyl's Cave was commended in the First Book category of The Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South-East Asia and South Pacific region, 2005) and short-listed for The Australian/Vogel Award (2001).

Associations/Memberships:

• Victorian Writers' Centre
• NSW Writers' Centre
• Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
• Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
• Australian Society of Authors
• Fellowship of Australian Writers

Personal web page:

www.catherinepadmore.com