Dr Rohan Wilson

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Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Creative Writing


Personal details

Positions

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Creative Writing

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (University of Melbourne)
  • Master or Arts (Creative Writing) (Research/Creative) (The University of Melbourne)

Professional memberships and associations

Born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, Rohan Wilson holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. He worked in the hospitality industry before moving to Japan in 2003 where he taught English for several years. For his masters thesis, Wilson focused on the conflicts between white settlers and Indigenous Australians in Tasmania. This in turn led to his writing of the Vogel award-winning novel The Roving Party In 2014, He published his second novel, To Name Those Lost, which went on to win the Victorian Premier's Award for fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award.

Publications

QUT ePrints

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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/rohan.wilson

Awards

Supervision

Current supervisions

  • Beyond the Pink and Fluffy: Centering Tiddaism, Indigeneity, and Intersectionality in the ‘Chick Lit’ Novel
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Mr Craig Bolland
  • Existential detecting at the end of the world: Searching for meaning through speculative noir and fiction of the apocalypse
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Mr Craig Bolland