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Research Biography
Amy Matthews is an award-winning author, Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Flinders University, and committee member and past 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 in the US now and will be published by Simon & Schuster in ANZ in early 2024. Amy's next book, Best, First, and Last, will be published in the US in July 2024 (Kensington: New York) and in ANZ in December 2024 (Simon & Schuster: Sydney). Meanwhile, Amy Barry is the author of Kit McBride Gets A Wife (Berkley/Penguin: New York, 2022; Simon & Schuster: Sydney, 2024) and Marrying Off Morgan McBride (Berkley/Penguin: New York, 2023; Simon & Schuster: Sydney, 2024); 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 Q1 journals including Arts and Humanities in Higher Education and New Writing, and in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. 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
Supervised Students Successes
- Aug 2021 Alex Cothren - Speculate Prize shortlist
- May 2021 Alex Cothren - William Van Dyke Short Story Prize
- Jun 2019 Alex Cothren - Peter Carey Short Story Award
- Sep 2018 Amy Mead & Alex Cothren - Editors, Westerly SA (special edition)
- Jun 2018 Amy Mead - Editor, MC Journal, 21:4
- Nov 2017 Matt Russell - Varuna Publisher Introduction Program
Completed Supervisions
Principal Supervisions:
- 3602 (3)
- 4705 (1)
Associate Supervisions:
- 3602 (1)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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
Supervision
- Registered
Research Areas
- Creative writing
Supervisory Interests
- Historical fiction
- Contemporary fiction
- Contemporary Australian fiction
- Contemporary American literature
- Creative writing, short stories
- Creative writing
- Creative writing (exegeses)
- Creative writing theory and practice
- Gender studies
- Feminism
- Postcolonial approaches to literature
- Climate change
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
Open Access
Prizes
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Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision Award
Matthews, A. (Recipient), 5 Jul 2021
Prize: Other distinction
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Hearts Talk interviews Love on Campus
Matthews, A. (Speaker)
5 Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Amy T Matthews' Someone Else's Bucket List
Matthews, A. (Participant)
24 Jan 2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Books in Bars: Amy T Matthews' Someone Else's Bucket List
Matthews, A. (Speaker)
1 Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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‘And he rode a Trojan Horse': an exegetical conversation about masculinity in the historical western romances of Amy Barry
Matthews, A. (Speaker)
29 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Uneasy Bedfellows? Climate Fiction and Popular Romance Fiction
Matthews, A. (Speaker), Cothren, A. (Speaker) & Hennessy, R. (Speaker)
6 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation