Dr. Rose Michael
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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rose.michael@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-5638-5355
About
Rose Michael is Senior Lecturer in Writing & Publishing and Program Manager of the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) in RMIT's School of Media and Communication.
Dr Michael's first novel, The Asking Game (Transit Lounge), was a runner-up for the Vogel and received an Aurealis honourable mention. Short stories from it appeared in Island, Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories and won an University of Melbourne prize. An early extract from her second, The Art of Navigation (UWA), was shortlisted for a Conjure award and published in Review of Australian Fiction. She has published speculative fiction criticism in The Conversation, Sydney Review of Books, TEXT and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction and has chapters on the genre in Reading Like an Australian Writer and The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy. Experiments towards her new novel, Else, have been shortlisted for the Big Issue Fiction Edition, longlisted for the international Myslexia Prize, and appear in Going Down Swinging #39, Melbourne Knowledge Week’s Future Stories, Meanjin, Antipodes and Science Write Now.
She has received numerous grants: from the Copyright Agency Limited (2010 and 2017), Australia Council for the Arts (2012), Arts Victoria (2009), and the City of Melbourne (2007); for an Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2007–11); as well as a University of Melbourne Publication Subsidy (2006).
Rose brings extensive professional experience as a trade publisher to her work in the Bowen Street Press and loves the opportunity RMIT provides for her to teach across the undergraduate and postgraduate writing and publishing programs.
www.rosemichael.com.au
Read Rose’s publications:
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ResearchGate
Research fields
- 3602 Creative and professional writing
- 4705 Literary studies
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 4702 Cultural studies
Academic positions
- Program Manager, Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing)
- RMIT
- , Australia
- 1 Nov 2022 – Present
- Senior Lecturer, Writing and Publishing
- RMIT
- , Australia
- 1 Jan 2022 – Present
- Lecturer, Master of Writing and Publishing
- RMIT
- , Australia
- 1 Nov 2017 – Present
Non-academic positions
- Publisher
- Arcade Publications
- , Australia
- 1 Jan 2007 – Present
Supervisor projects
- The allegory of annihilation - the Universe Gun
- 8 Jan 2024
- Madness, Knowing and Narrating: The Aesthetic Form of Neurodivergent Literary Memoir
- 5 Jun 2023
- The Doubting Memoir & Doubt and Craft in Creative Writing
- 1 Jan 2023
- The Tale of Munya and the Djinni Prince: Exploring Australian-Muslim Writing Practice through Islamic Cosmology
- 18 Jul 2022
- Making Mischief: the naughty disposition in a non-fiction creative writing practice
- 29 Jun 2022
- The Yellow Woman in the Archives: How can a Chinese Australian fiction writer use archives to create unsettling historical narratives about Chinese Australian women?
- 16 Jul 2021
- Peonies Attract Ants: Housing Emotions in Uncanny Narratives
- 9 Mar 2021
- Voice Ethics and Power in Writing and Publishing
- 30 Nov 2020
- Fox(Story) – a novel and a dissertation concerned with Displacing the human in post-nature writing
- 14 Feb 2020
- Listening to Voice Brackets, Gaps and Silences – Or How I Brought My Professional Interviewing Practice to Bear on the Problem of My Second Novel
- 7 Feb 2020
- Devising an Empathetic Framework: identifying antecedents and implications in female-authored true crime
- 5 Feb 2020
- Houses of Moss: Hybridity in Novels, Multiple and Moss
- 18 Dec 2019
- 'Only in the particular': An Informational Poetics for Precision Medicine
- 11 Dec 2019
- Persist: An Affective, Autoethnographic Feminist Creative Practice Model
- 10 Dec 2019
- Beyond the Diary: Selfhood and Womanhood in Contemporary Autofictive Narratives.
- 17 Oct 2018
- TWITCH GOTHIC: An Exploration of the Female Protagonist in Contemporary Australian Gothic Short Fiction
- 10 Apr 2018
- Book Contracts and the Post Negotiation Space. Lifting the Lid on Publishing's Black Box of Aspirations, Laws and Money
- 22 Jan 2018
Teaching interests
Lecturer, Writing and Publishing
Supervisor, Honours and Higher Degree Research students
Awards
2024 City North Activation Award
2023 Media & Communication Research Committee Commendation for Collaboration
2023 DSC College Award for Research Engagement and Impact (ECR)
2022 DSC College Reward and Recognition for Innovative Use of Digital Technologies
2022 Dean’s Award for Innovation, Adaption & Resilience
2021–22 Career Reignite Funding
2019 Vice-Chancellor’s (Team) Award for Strategic Contributions to Learning & Teaching
2016 Dean’s Award for Integrated Scholarship
Research interests
The Novel
Speculative fiction
Creative practice research
Publishing studies
Member non/fictionLab
Founding member novelLab
Residencies
2024 James Cook University, Visitor Fellow
2023 Bundanon, Artist in Residence
2023 Varuna, Residential Fellowship
2020 Sarah Sentilles, The Word Cave
2019 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Postgraduate Writers’ Conference
2018 The Writer’s Hotel, NYC
