Dr Rohan Wilson
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Creative Writing
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Creative Writing
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Melbourne)
- Master or Arts (Creative Writing) (Research/Creative) (The University of Melbourne)
Professional memberships and associations
Born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, Rohan Wilson holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. He worked in the hospitality industry before moving to Japan in 2003 where he taught English for several years. For his masters thesis, Wilson focused on the conflicts between white settlers and Indigenous Australians in Tasmania. This in turn led to his writing of the Vogel award-winning novel The Roving Party In 2014, He published his second novel, To Name Those Lost, which went on to win the Victorian Premier's Award for fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award.
Selected publications
- Wilson R, (2019) Daughter of bad times . [Textual].
- Wilson R, (2016) The unluckiest man who ever lived [For the term of his natural life / by Marcus Clarke ; introduced by Rohan Wilson] . [Textual].
- Wilson R, (2015) Extinction discourse in wanting and Doctor Wooreddy's prescription for enduring the ending of the world, Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature, 29 (1), pp. 5-17.
- Dalley H, Wilson R, (2014) In defence of 'the lesser cousin of history': An interview with Rohan Wilson, Ariel, 45 (4), pp. 133-150.
- Wilson R, (2014) Anxiety of reference in that Deadman Dance, Westerly, 59 (1), pp. 70-86.
- Wilson R, (2014) To name those lost . [Textual].
- Wilson R, (2012) The needle in the shoe . [N/A].
- Wilson R, (2011) from 'The Roving Party', The Harvard Review, 40, pp. 103-106.
- Wilson R, (2011) The roving party . [Textual].
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Rohan, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction for TO NAME THOSE LOST.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Winner of 2011 The Australian/Vogel Literary Prize for THE ROVING PARTY.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Winner of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction for TO NAME THOSE LOST.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Biographical Ekphrasis and the Queer Artist
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Sarah Holland-Batt - PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Sarah Holland-Batt - Beyond the pink and fluffy: Making space for intersectionality in the chick lit genre
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Mr Craig Bolland - Existential detecting at the end of the world: Searching for meaning through speculative noir and fiction of the apocalypse
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Mr Craig Bolland - The culture in our nature: Situating the posthuman self in Australian creative nonfiction
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Mr Craig Bolland
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Down in the River: Marcia's Identity Status Paradigm in the Cult Novel (2020)
- Knowing Anne Brennan: Lyric Poetry as Feminist Biography (2020)
- The Impossible Story: Arthur W. Frank's "Chaos Narrative" and Memoirs of Madness (2020)
- Royal Palms: Exploring 1980s Neoliberal Characterisation through Foucauldian Power and Discourse (2019)
- Postcolonial Privilege In The Pacific: Interrogating Tropes In Literature Set In Vanuatu (2017)