ProfessorEmily Potter

Professor, Writing and Literature

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

  • Professor, Writing and Literature
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 924 46842 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Literature and the environment, especially climate change, literature and
place, contemporary Australian literature, decolonising literary practice,
reading cultures, regional literary history.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    T1 and T3 Unit Chair ALL381 'Reading the End of Nature'
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Beyond the Limits of Mastery: An Ethnography of Val Plumwoods Thought
    Zoe Rebecca Coombe - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Significance of Australian Womens Short Fiction in Ecofeminisms Emergence through Australian Periodicals (1975-1990)
    Reanna Kissell - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Writing stolen land: creative practice as a decolonising process.
    Leanne Hills - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Lineages of the Tide: Towards a Littoral Poetics
    Sophie Finlay - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Walking Wollongong: Where Sea, Steel, Trees, Concrete and Creativity Meet
    Julie Smythe - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Adam Problem: Subverting the Voice of Capitalist Self-Interest as an Experiment in Ecocriticism and Utopian Fiction
    Greg Anthony FOYSTER - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Social Health Housing
    Joseph Sehee - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Speculative Endosymbiosis: Searching for Environmental Belonging for Urban Environments within Contemporary Australian Environmental Fiction
    Ashley Dunne - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Anthropocentrism and the Novel
    Sam Cadman - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Contemporary Australian Novels and Crises of Ecologies
    Dave Harris - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    False Gods and Faultlines: Reading Great Recession Fiction
    Samantha Phillips - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    THE BUNGALOW ALICE SPRINGS 1914-1929
    Linda Wells - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Stray Writing: Ecology, Geoengineering and Writing in the Climate Crisis
    Jack Kirne - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Between Home and Away: Documentary Filmmaking as a Placemaking Practice
    Simon Jeffrey Wilmot - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Reading for Nature: Non-human Representation in Australian Ecofiction
    Rachel Fetherston - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    On Going Public: A Field Guide for Making Art Public in Melbourne 2014 - 2019.
    Lynda Roberts - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    On The Nature Strip - an exegesis
    Caroline Tiffany - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Practices of Textuality: Temporalities of Textile and Textual Production
    Jordana Leah Infeld - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Wimmera Speaks: Adaptive Work, Poetic Histories, and Place-based Arts
    D'Arcy William Molan - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Deadly Reckonings: Recognition, Refusal and Relationality in Contemporary Aboriginal Women's Writing
    Alice Bellette - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Salt and Skin: Climate Change in Australia and Orkney
    Eliza Henry-Jones - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023