Doctoral graduate invited as presenter for Sydney Writers' Festival
Published on 04 April, 2012
CQUniversity PhD graduate Dr Rachel Franks has been invited as a panel presenter for the Sydney Writers' Festival during May this year.
Rachel wrote her thesis on class, gender and the ethics of murder in Australian crime fiction, supervised by CQUniversity academics Associate Professor Wally Woods and Dr Lynda Hawryluk.
PhD graduate Dr Rachel Franks is ready for her panel at the Sydney Writers' Festival
For the festival, she's on a panel to discuss Murder in the Galleries, examining the the history of crime fiction, how we respond to the genre and why it still intrigues and titillates us.
LINK HERE for details of the panel event presented by the State Library of NSW from 6pm-7pm on Tuesday, May 15.
Working at the State Library of New South Wales, Rachel has continued her relationship with CQUniversity through her membership of the LTERC research centre's Creative and Performing Arts Special Interest Group, and in a series of research collaborations with the SIG's convenor Professor Donna Lee Brien.
Rachel and Donna have just co-written an article on the variety and location of Australian food studies resources, which has been accepted into the prestigious Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, and are currently completing another study on libraries as active engines of creativity.
Rachel is also the area chair of fiction for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand.
