Rate My Professor Josephine Wilson

Dr Josephine Wilson serves as a Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, specializing in English and creative writing. She teaches courses in literary theory, theatre, drama, performance studies, and the history of art and design. A Murdoch University alumnus, Wilson earned her PhD from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Queensland. She was appointed to her current full-time position in 2019, following years as a sessional lecturer at Murdoch University, the University of Western Australia, and Curtin University.

Renowned as an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright, Wilson's creative practice intersects with her academic interests in literature in English, comparative literature, and gender studies. Her novel Extinctions (2016) won the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for its unpublished manuscript, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction. Her debut novel Cusp was published in 2005. She also received the 1998 Salt Hill Hypertext award for water always writes in plural. Wilson collaborates on interdisciplinary research, including with sociologist Barbara Barbosa Neves, providing creative narratives for a study on loneliness in later life published in Qualitative Research (2023) and developing Live Gerontology in The Gerontologist (2023) to integrate art and science in exploring aging, loneliness, and long-term care. Her contributions extend to virtual reality applications in aged care (2024) and eco-performance soundscapes addressing the Anthropocene. As a PhD supervisor and academic representative on the Murdoch University Art Collection Board, she enriches humanities scholarship through creative and scholarly integration.