Staff profile

Dr Catherine Heather Padmore

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Humanities2, room 506, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Hons (LaTrobe), PhD (Deakin).

Membership of professional associations

Australian Association of Writing Programs. Victorian Writers’ Centre. Australian Society of Authors. Fellowship of Australian Writers. Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Area of study

English
Creative Arts

Brief profile

Dr Catherine Padmore was awarded her PhD in creative writing in 2002. Her first novel, Sibyl’s Cave, was published by Allen and Unwin in 2004 after being shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Award for writers under 35. It was also commended in the first book category of The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the south-east Asia and south Pacific region. Her second novel explores the life of Amy Dudley. In 2009 Catherine was selected for a three-week retreat fellowship at Varuna, the Writers’ House, to work on her second novel. Catherine is aslo a member of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Fiction writing

- Historical fiction

- Women's writing

Teaching units

HUS1PWR - Professional Writing: Words in Action. ENG2/3WFI - Writing Fiction. ENG4/5WRF - Writing Fiction.

Recent publications

Padmore, C 2010 (forthcoming), ‘Of “myne owne awtoryte”: On Amy Dudley’s letters’, Expanding the canon of early modern women's writing (ed. P Salzman), Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge.

 

Padmore, C & Lyssiotis, P 2010, ‘Walking in new places’, Journal of Australian Writers and Writing 1. Available: http://www.australianliterarycompendium.com/journal/journal.html.   

 

Padmore, C 2009, ‘Telling home stories’, Life Writing, 6.2, 267-278.

 

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). Available: http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue5/padmore.htm.

 

Padmore, C 2009, 'Preludes (to a train rhythm)', Melbourne Reflections, Poetica Christi Press, Melbourne, 120.

 

Padmore, C 2009, 'When the writing's on the wall', The Big Issue, No 329 (19 May-1 June), 29. Available: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2009/opinion/graffiti-and-the-marks-of-culture.

 

Padmore, C 2008, 'Future tense: Dead Europe and viral anti-Semitism', Australian Literary Studies 23.4, 434-445.

 

Padmore C 2008, ‘What does fiction do?: On Dead Europe, ethics and aesthetics’ [interview with Christos Tsiolkas], Australian Literary Studies 23.4, 446-462.

 

Padmore, C 2008, 'Relentless light', Island 112, 43-48.

 

Padmore, C 2008, 'This (composting) life', The Australian, 27 Dec., 2 [Review section]