Rate My Professor Keri Glastonbury

Associate Professor Keri Glastonbury is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing within the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, holding this appointment since 2006. She obtained her Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney in 2005, with a thesis titled Shut Up! Nobody Wants To Hear Your Poems. Prior to joining Newcastle, she taught cultural studies and writing at UTS. Her research specializations include creative writing encompassing scriptwriting, contemporary Australian poetics, life-writing, cultural studies, and literary studies. Glastonbury supervises higher degree research students in the Creative Writing Masters and PhD program, one of the university's most popular offerings. She has overseen more than 20 completions over the last decade, including diverse projects such as a series of short stories set in Newcastle in the context of post-grunge fiction, a novella with a millennial protagonist dating a member of Hillsong Church, a memoir recounting childhood in rural Philippines, a novel set in a medical hospital during the French Revolution, and a novel featuring an Indigenous and queer central character. Several supervised works have been published, including those by Dr Michael Sala, Dr David Kelly, Dr Ivy Ireland, and Dr Meg Vertigan's The Strong Dress (Puncher & Wattmann, 2019).

Glastonbury is a prolific poet and scholar whose poetry collections include Hygienic Lily (1999), Super-regional (2001), The Wombat Vedas: Newcastle Poetry Prize 2011 (with Harrison J, 2011), Newcastle Sonnets (Giramondo, 2018)—shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry—and the forthcoming 51 Alterities (Giramondo, 2025). Her academic publications feature chapters such as "'Networking, bumping into, sucking up to, catching up with, meeting, greeting, chatting, joking, criticising': The Emerging Writers' Community as Respublica Literaria" (2012) and journal articles including "Adoration" (Cultural Studies Review, 2019), "What If John Forbes Had Been Around To Live Tweet During Q & A?": Post-internet poetry and the self" (AXON, 2017), "Rough and Tumblr: Blogging Newcastle" (LINQ, 2016), and "Lost Wagga Wagga" (Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2014). Awards include the Vice Chancellor's Award for Supervision Excellence (Faculty of Education and Arts, 2011), Australia Council grants such as the BR Whiting Residency in Rome, and the Asialink Literature Residency in India (2009). She has served as former poetry editor of Overland and editor of Local Consumption Publications.