Rate My Professor Aidan Coleman

Dr. Aidan Coleman is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University’s Gold Coast campus, where he teaches English education and creative writing and coordinates the creative writing program in the Associate Degree of Creative Writing. He holds a PhD from the University of Adelaide, for which he was awarded the University Medal for Doctoral Research. With over 12 years of experience as a secondary English and history teacher and faculty coordinator, Coleman co-designed Australia’s first Shakespeare MOOC. He has received the National Excellence in Teaching Award (NEiTA) and serves as a peer assessor and Industry Advisor for the Australia Council for the Arts, chairs peer assessment panels for Arts South Australia, and judges national book awards including the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and Newcastle Poetry Prize.

Coleman’s research interests include Australian literature, Shakespeare, poetry, ecocriticism, creative writing, life writing, ecopoetics, environmental writing, and Shakespeare and poetry in the classroom. His scholarly work appears in journals such as New Writing, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Text, Westerly, and the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Forthcoming publications feature chapters on Shakespeare’s Sonnets for Routledge, the poetry of migratory birds for Routledge, and Australian Modernism in the Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry from Cambridge University Press. He is the co-author of a series of Shakespeare textbooks and is completing a biography of Australian poet John Forbes for Melbourne University Publishing in 2024. His poetry, essays, and criticism have been published in Australian Book Review, The Australian, Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Conversation, Glasgow Review of Books, Harvard Review, Italian Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Stand, Sydney Review of Books, Terrain.org, Virginia Quarterly Review, and various anthologies. His poetry collections have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award, John Bray Poetry Award, and WA Premier’s Book Awards. Coleman has received multiple Australia Council for the Arts grants for non-fiction and poetry, as well as scholarships, grants, and residencies.