Rate My Professor Lili Paquet

Lili Pâquet is a Senior Lecturer in Writing within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2016, a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours and Faculty Medal, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of New England. As an academic in writing studies and rhetoric, her research specializations encompass crime fiction, true crime, digital and social media publishing, and rhetoric. Pâquet teaches units such as Publishing Practice, Writing, Rhetoric, and Persuasion, and Writing Creative Non-fiction.

Pâquet authored Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye: Women Writers with Law Enforcement and Justice Experience (McFarland, 2018), analyzing crime novels by women with criminal justice backgrounds including lawyers, forensic experts, and detectives. She co-edited True Crime and Women: Writers, Readers, and Representations (Routledge, 2024) with Rosemary Williamson, contributing chapters on invitational rhetoric in women's magazines and broader perspectives on true crime and women. Her peer-reviewed articles include “ ‘It’s Time to Transport Ourselves Back to the Day of the Crime’: The Intimacy of Sound in True Crime Podcasts” (Crime, Media, Culture, forthcoming), “Seeking Justice Elsewhere: Informal and Formal Justice in the True Crime Podcasts Trace and The Teacher’s Pet” (Crime, Media, Culture, 2021), “A Rhetoric of Walking and Reading: Immersion in Environmental Literature” (Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2020), “Selfie-Help: The Multimodal Appeal of Instagram Poetry” (Journal of Popular Culture, 2019), and “The #Rhetoric of Waleed Aly’s ‘Send Forgiveness Viral’: Is Rogerian Argumentation an Appropriate Response to Racism?” (Argumentation and Advocacy, 2019). Additional contributions feature chapters in Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture (2022), Praxis, Practice, Print (2021), and forthcoming works on digital poetry publishing and environmental podcasts. She has published creative writing and poetry in Cordite Poetry Review, Antipodes, and other journals, alongside media outreach in The Guardian, ABC National, and SBS Insight.