ProfessorLyn Mc Credden

Community Service

Member of the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize committee (ASAL).

ASAL Chair of Judging Panel, ALS Gold Medal, 2015.

Vice-chair and member of the Churches of Christ Theological College of Victoria (1983-2009);

Panel member, University of Divinity promotions committee (2013-present);

External Honours Moderator, University of Tasmania, English Discipline, 2013 and 2014;

Reader of academic manuscripts for JASAL, ALS, Antipodes etc.

Judge, The Age Poetry Book of the Year (2004, 6, 9);

Poetry Judge, Anti-Cancer Council Prize (2009);

Poetry audio workshops for Victorian Association for Teachers of English.

Reading Australia (CAL) author, on Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.

European Association for the Study of Australia Australian Universities Heads of English member

Association for the Study of Australian Literature

American Association for Australian Literary Studies

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2008);

Visiting Professorship in Australian Literature, Frei Universitat, Berlin (2011);

ARC Discovery Project Award, Sacred and Secular in Australian Literature (with Bill Ashcroft and Frances Devlin-Glass) (2002-7);

ARC Discovery Project Award, The Legacy of Tim Winton (2013-5).

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature

The American Association for Australian and New Zealand Literary Studies

The European Association for the Study of Australia

Leader, Faculty of Arts and Education Mentoring Scheme 2014-5 Faculty/IKE Liaison Committee

Manuscript assessor, JASAL (national journal of ASAL), New Scholar, ALS

ARC Assessor Member, School of Education Advisory Board. Member, the Australian Universities Heads of English.

Visiting Chair of Australian Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin.