ProfessorLyn Mc Credden

I hold a Personal Chair at Deakin University, and am Head of Academic Group,
Writing and Literature. I am a literary scholar and critic, an editor,
reviewer, poet and teacher. I have authored and edited eight critical volumes.
My research focuses on Australian literature and culture, including Indigenous
writing, poetry, Australia's (multiple) identity, and literature and the
sacred. I am a member of Faculty Board and have served as Acting Head of
School, Associate Head of School, (Research), and Literary Studies Convenor. I
am also a member of the Australian Universities Heads of English grou (AUHE).

I teach and research in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty
of Arts and Education, Deakin University. I have previously taught at the
University of Melbourne, and at LaTrobe University.

I graduated from the University of Melbourne with a B.A Hons (1975, Dux of
Pure English), a Master of Arts (First Class Honours,1980), and a PhD (1987).
I was awarded the Alexander Sutherland Prize and the Edward Stevens Exhibition
in Pure English in second year; and the Dwight's Prize, Final examination in
Pure English, and Shakespeare Scholarship in the final year.

I have taught at several Australian Universities (Melbourne, La Trobe, Deakin)
and was a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universitat, Berlin (2011). I am a
longstanding member of The Association for the Study of Australian Literature
(ASAL), the national conference of scholars of Australian lierature, and was
its President in 2004-5. I have been invited to present the annual Dorothy
Green Lecture the 2016.

My areas of expertise include Australian poetry and fiction; literature and
the sacred; and the writing of poetry. She has authored and edited 8 literary
critical books, including James McAuley (1992, OUP), Bridgings: Reading
Australian Women's Poetry (with Rose Lucas, 1996, OUP), Feminism and the
Sacred: Creative Suspicions (with Frances Devlin-Glass, 2002, OUP), Intimate
Horizons: the Post-colonial Sacred in Australian Literature (with Bill
Ashcroft and Frances Devlin-Glass, 2009, ATF Press), Luminous Moments: the
Contemporary Sacred (2010, ATF Press), and the edited volume, Tim Winton:
Critical Essays (with Nathanael O'Reilly, 2014, UWAP). A new criticl volume,
The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred is being published in late 2016
by Sydney University Press, in its Australian authors series.

In 2013-2015 I conducted research for two monographs: the first on The Legacy
of Tim Winton, as part of an ARC Discovery Grant, and the second on aspects of
the sacred in literature.

I also publish poetry in various Australian journals.