Rate My Professor Bronwyn Lovell

Dr. Bronwyn Lovell is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She earned a Doctorate in Creative Writing from Flinders University, a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Cinema Studies from the University of Melbourne, and an Executive Certificate in Space Studies from the University of South Australia in partnership with the International Space University. Her research examines the roles of women in science fiction space narratives and non-fictional gender discrimination in the space industry. Commissioned by the Australian Space Agency, she wrote poetry addressing diversity and inclusion in the space workforce. Her essays appear in Science Fiction Film and Television, The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, the National Gallery of Victoria, and The Conversation. Her poetry has been published in Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Southerly, Strange Horizons, and Cordite.

Lovell teaches creative writing, professional writing, literature, screen studies, and cultural studies. Her courses cover science fiction and space studies, poetry and literary essays, screen and adaptation studies, feminism and ecocriticism, and neurodiversity and inclusion. Notable publications include 'Sex and the stars: the enduring structure of gender discrimination in the space industry' in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship (2021), 'Cosmic careers and dead children: women working in space in Aliens, Gravity, Extant and the Cloverfield Paradox' in Science Fiction Film and Television (2019), 'Out of breath: timely issues and old gender tropes in Seth Larney's 2067' in Metro (2021), and 'Science fiction's women problem' in Creative Writing Scholars on the Publishing Trade (2021). Her debut poetry collection, In Bed with Animals, was published by Recent Work Press (2022), and her science-fiction verse novel, Between Worlds, is forthcoming from University of Western Australia Publishing. She won the Val Vallis Award and was shortlisted for the Speculate Prize, Dorothy Hewett Award, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Newcastle Poetry Prize, Bridport Prize, and Montreal International Poetry Prize. Previously, she edited and wrote children's books for Penguin in the UK, contributed to lifestyle magazines in Sydney, administered arts programs for Writers Victoria and Australian Poetry at the Wheeler Centre, and taught English literacy in remote Aboriginal communities across Cape York and Arnhem Land.