Rate My Professor Kate Lilley

Lilley's academic research focuses on early modern women's writing, queer feminist poetics, and intermedia texts, including poem/screen relations. Key scholarly works include Blazing Worlds: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Utopian Writing (1992), The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World and Other Writings edited by Lilley (1992; Penguin Classics, 1994), True State Within: Women's Elegy, 1640-1740 (1992), and articles such as 'Fruits of Sodom: The Critical Erotics of Early Modern Women's Writing' (Parergon, 2012), 'Contracting Readers: “Margaret Newcastle” and the Rhetoric of Conjugality' (2018), and 'Katherine Philips, “Philo-Philippa” and the Poetics of Association' (2014). As a poet, she has published Versary (Salt, 2002; winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry), Ladylike (UWA Publishing, 2012), Round Vienna (Vagabond Press, 2011), and Tilt (Vagabond Press, 2018; winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, 2019). Lilley edited Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett (UWA Press, 2010) and serves as poetry editor for the journal Southerly. Her work has earned additional recognition, including the Henry Lawson Prize from the University of Sydney in 1982.