Dr. Rose Michael
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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 and publishing at RMIT.
Dr Michael's first novel The Asking Game, was a runner-up for the Vogel and received an Aurealis honourable mention. An early extract from her second, The Art of Navigation, was shortlisted for a Conjure award and published in Review of Australian Fiction. She has published 'spec fic' in Island, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Best Australian Stories and 'spec crit' in The Conversation, Sydney Review of Books and Reading Like an Australian Writer. Experiments towards her new novel, Else, have been published in international journals Antipodes and Speculative Nonfiction.
She has received numerous grants: from the Copyright Agency Limited (2010 and 2017), Australia Council for the Arts (2012), Arts Victoria (2009 and 2023), and the City of Melbourne (2007 and 2021); as well as an Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2007–11) at the University of Melbourne.
Rose brings extensive professional experience as a trade publisher to her work 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:
Google Scholar
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 – 1 Feb 2025
- Senior Lecturer, Writing and Publishing
- RMIT
- Australia
- 1 Jan 2022 – Present
- Lecturer, Master of Writing and Publishing
- RMIT
- Australia
- 1 Sep 2015 – 1 Jan 2022
Non-academic positions
- Publisher
- Arcade Publications
- Australia
- 1 Jan 2007 – Present
Supervisor projects
- The Doubting Memoir & Doubt and Craft in Creative Writing
- 1 Jan 2023
- 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
- 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
2025 Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Prize
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 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
2025 Academic Development Leave
2024 James Cook University, Visiting 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
