Rate My Professor Amelia Walker

Dr Amelia Walker is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at Adelaide University’s College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities. Previously a lecturer in creative writing at the University of South Australia, where she began her academic career as a casual tutor in 2011, Walker completed her PhD there in 2016. Her doctoral thesis investigated the challenges confronting creative writing academics amid neoliberal pressures in higher education and highlighted the transformative potential of creative writing research in navigating these dynamics.

Walker’s research focuses on creative writing as an inquiry method, exploring themes such as ecopoetry, queer life writing, autoethnography, pedagogy, power structures in academia, environmental crises, and collaborative poetic practices. She has authored five poetry collections, with her most recent being Alogopoiesis published by Gazebo Books in 2023. Notable scholarly works include her forthcoming monograph Reading and Writing for Change: Theories and Tools for Confronting Power (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and co-edited volume Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy: How Games Play Us (Routledge, 2025, with Helen Grimmett and Alison L. Black). Her peer-reviewed articles, often collaborative, have appeared in leading journals including New Writing, TEXT, Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, and Axon: Creative Explorations. Key publications address ecopoetic encounters unsettling anthropocentric views, literary rhythmanalysis of queer life writing during COVID-19 isolation, and rethinking metaphors for research degree candidatures. At Adelaide University, she teaches undergraduate courses in short form creative writing, the power of story, and creative writing theory and practice. Walker supervises postgraduate research students, currently co-supervising projects on Australian literary magazines during pandemics and portrayals of childless women in biographical drama. Her work contributes to advancing collaborative, arts-based methodologies in humanities scholarship, fostering critical engagement with social and environmental issues through creative practice.