ProfessorAnn Vickery

Ann Vickery is Professor of Writing and Literature. Her research and teaching spans literary studies, creative writing, gender studies, and, more recently, the medical humanities. She has particular interest in poetry and poetics, Australian literature, feminist literary modernism, and how reading and writing practices may enhance experiences and understandings of ageing. Ann completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne. This was followed by a Macquarie University Research Fellowship, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award (Yale University and Temple University), and a Monash University Research Fellowship. She was co-founder and editor-in-chief (2000-2001) of HOW2, an early online journal of innovative women's writing and scholarship. She joined Deakin in 2009 and co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network with Lorraine Sim and James Smith the same year. In 2021, she became series editor of Palgrave's Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. She was the S.W. Brooks Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland in 2022 and President of the Australian University Heads of English from 2022-2023. 

Ann recently co-edited The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (2025) and edited The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (2024). She authored Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (2007), and co-authored The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (2009). She has also edited special issues of Australian Literary Studies, Southerly, Cordite Poetry Review, Hecate, and Affirmations: Of the Modern.

Her first poetry collection, The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (Vagabond, 2014) was commended in the FAW Anne Elder Award and her third poetry collection, Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack (Vagabond, 2021) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry, Queensland Literary Awards. She has participated in a number of literary festivals, including the 47th Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam as the Australian representative. In 2023, she was part of the Invisible Walls project fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Australian and Korean poets. Her work has been translated into Dutch, German, Vietnamese and Korean, and been anthologised widely. She has been a judge of the Voss Literary Prize, the ALS Gold Medal, Mary Gilmore Prize, AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, and the Western Australian Premier's Award for Poetry.

Ann is Graduate Research Co-ordinator of the School of Communication and Creative Arts. She is a member of Deakin's Reading Writing Futures and Contemporary Histories Research Group.