Dr Catherine Noske

Dr Catherine Noske is a creative writer, literary editor and award-winning teacher whose soon-to-be-published novel, The Call of Salt, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Prize. Her current research looks closely at the way we use words to create ideas of Australia, focusing on anything from social concepts such as 'nation', to physical places such as the collection of poetry in the new Optus Stadium.

Dr Noske is editor of Westerly magazine and lectures in English and creative writing within the School of Humanities. Her most recent work surrounds the Western Australian writer Randolph Stow and his textual practices of place-making, considering what his writing might teach us for the future, and how it could change the way we think and write about place.

Dr Noske is also beginning work on a collaborative project between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, and the ways such initiatives can contribute to Australian society. Her research aims to help us understand how writing, produced culturally, informs our social lives and how we can use these cultural productions to create a better future for society. She is a frequent guest blogger for Margaret River Press, blogging on current writing and research.

Dr Noske was recently a participant in the ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship Mentoring Scheme at the University of Melbourne. This scheme was open to outstanding early career female researchers in the humanities and social sciences.