Rate My Professor Molly Crighton

Molly Crighton serves as Collection Librarian (Access) at the University of Otago Library in Dunedin. She is part of the Collection Access & Discovery team within the Digital and Collections division, reporting to Manager Jacinda Boivin. Her colleagues include fellow Collection Librarians (Access) Denise Donaldson and Mike Smith, as well as Collection Assistants such as Mareike Barton, Sarah Lawrence, Ruth McCarthy, Dierdre O'Neill, Christy Paterson, Rosie Vlietstra, and Jan Wyllie. In 2023, Molly Crighton won the staff fiction section of the University of Otago Writer 2023 creative writing competition with her story '95 Million Years'. Published in the Otago Daily Times, the story is inspired by campus magnolia trees in bloom and blends everyday university bureaucracy with fantastical metamorphosis, drawing on myths like Daphne and Arachne, fairytales such as The Six Swans, and works like Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. Judge Kathryn van Beek commended its strong imagery, such as 'the corridor is a dancehall for dust motes', interesting science facts, and clever interpretation of the theme 'The Getting of Wisdom'.