Rate My Professor Katerina Bryant

Dr. Katerina Bryant is a Lecturer in the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University, where she teaches courses including Creative Writing Theory and Practice. She completed her PhD at Flinders University in 2022, producing a practice-based doctoral project that is a hybrid memoir/biography of the first woman clown in America. Bryant previously earned a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts in 2016 and has served as a research assistant at Flinders University. Her work bridges creative practice and academia, with affiliations to UniSA Creative prior to the formation of Adelaide University. In 2025, she was awarded the Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship to explore narrative, storytelling, and AI, examining how fiction and media AI stories shape public perceptions.

Bryant's research specializations encompass creative writing, life writing, archives, women's history, and disability studies. She is the author of Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History (NewSouth, 2020). Her publications include 'The language of women’s prisons: Reflecting on violence and desistance' (TEXT 28(1), 2024), 'Speculative Biography and Countering Archival Absences of Women Clowns in the Circus' (Life Writing, 2021), 'Memory work' (2019), and essays in Kill Your Darlings, Griffith Review, Meanjin, The Guardian, and Southerly. Her writing appears in anthologies such as Balancing Acts: Women in Sport and Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability. Bryant has received the 2024 SA Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia for a manuscript about women and chess, the 2022 SA Arts & Culture Project Grant, Flinders University's Vice-Chancellor's Award for Dissertation Excellence (2023), Best Higher Degree by Research Student Publication (2020), inaugural Writers SA Varuna Fellowship for Emerging Writers (2018), and Graduate Women SA Postgraduate Doctoral Award (2021). She has featured at the Feminist Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Emerging Writers’ Festival, and National Young Writers Festival.