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Research Biography
Dr Amy Matthews is an award-winning author, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University, and Deputy Director of Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts. As a novelist, she has published under the names Amy T Matthews, Amy Barry, and Tess LeSue. Amy T Matthews has published short stories in collections including Best Australian Stories and is the author of the award-winning novel End of the Night Girl (Wakefield Press: Adelaide, 2011), while her latest book Someone Else's Bucket List (Kensington: New York, 2023) is out now, and her new book, Happily Ever After, Again, will be published in July 2024 (Kensington: New York). Meanwhile, Amy Barry is the author of Kit McBride Gets A Wife (Berkley/Penguin: New York, 2022) and Marrying Off Morgan McBride (Berkley/Penguin: New York, 2023); and Tess LeSue is the author of the four book Frontiers of the Heart series (Berkley/Penguin: New York, 2018-2019; HarperCollins: Sydney, 2016). Amy's research focusses on commercial fictions, including popular romance studies, posthumanism and fictions of climate change, postcolonialism and historical fiction, and genre studies. Her research has been published in journals including Arts and Humanities in Higher Education and TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses and her monograph Navigating the Kingdom of Night: Writing the Holocaust was published in 2013.
Research Interests
Popular Romance
Genre Studies
Historical Fiction
Climate Fiction
Horror Fiction
Novel Writing
Literary Theory and Fiction
Creative Non-fiction
Experimental Fiction
Short Stories
Australian Fiction
Contemporary American Fiction
Feminisms and Fiction
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The Ethics of Fictionalising the Holocaust: End of the Night Girl (novel) and Navigating the Kingdom of Night (exegesis), University of Adelaide
Award Date: 20 Jul 2007
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Heimweh: Fictionalising Warsaw 1939, University of Adelaide
Award Date: 16 Dec 2002
Bachelor of Arts, Communications & Film and Electronic Media, University of South Australia
Award Date: 14 Dec 1998
Bachelor of Arts, History & English, University of Adelaide
Award Date: 11 Dec 1995
External positions
Chair, Writers SA
May 2017 → May 2019
Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
2012 → 2015
Associate Lecturer, University of Adelaide
2010 → 2012
Board member, Writers SA
2009 → 2019
Member, Australasian Association of Writing Programs
Associate Member, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
Member, Romance Writers of Australia
Member, South Australian Romance Authors
Member, Writers SA
Keywords
- PR English literature
- Creative Writing
- Fiction
- Popular Fiction
- Popular Romance
- Climate Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- American Fiction
- Australian Fiction
- UK Fiction
- Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies
- Horror Fiction
- Short Stories
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Someone Else's Bucket List
Matthews, A. T., 2023, New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation. 387 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Marrying Off Morgan McBride
Barry, A., 2023, New York: Penguin Random House. 336 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Kit McBride Gets A Wife
Barry, A., 5 Oct 2022, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin Random House. 343 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Creating new climate stories: Posthuman collaborative hope and optimism
Hennessy, R., Cothren, A. & Matthews, A., 29 Apr 2022, In: Text. 26, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Saltfish: Ecologies of Creative Processes
Muecke, S., Eadie, J., Antonello, A., Barnett, T., Norman, J., Matthews, A. & Zagala, S., 11 Apr 2022, In: Sydney Review of Books. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision Award
Matthews, Amy (Recipient), 5 Jul 2021
Prize: Other distinction
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Posthuman Artists Laboratory 2
Amy Matthews (Participant) & Alexander Cothren (Participant)
29 May 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Creative Writing (Organisational unit)
Amy Matthews (Chair), Abby Guy (Member), Alex Vickery-Howe (Member), Amelia Heffernan (Member), Elizabeth Duffield (Member), Georgia Nicholls (Member), Hannah Dunwell (Member), Harrison Stewart (Member), Justina Ashman (Member), Kathleen Stanley (Member), Sean Williams (Member), Shane Walter (Member) & Thomas Stark (Member)
2023 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
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