Ms Lily Roberts
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Humanities
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Lily Roberts (she/her) is a creative practice PhD candidate working across posthuman feminism, poetic inquiry, and textile practice on the unceded lands of the Kaurna people in Adelaide/Tarntanya. She is developing an experimental research methodology inspired by Deleuze’s rhizome and Nerida Blair’s Lilyology that explores expanded networks of possibility for poetry, including patchwork quilting and salvaging text(iles) for the Anthropocene.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Tutor | University of South Australia |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | University of South Australia | Australia | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Date | Role | Membership | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | - | ASLEC-ANZ | - |
| Date | Topic | Presented at | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Quilting the Anthropocene: Text(ile) acts of entanglement with | Becoming: Before, Now & Beyond, UniSA Creative HDR Colloquium 2025 | University of South Australia | Australia |
| 2024 - 2024 | The bats fly south like jagged arrows: Text(ile) acts of rhizomatic entanglement | Speaking from the South Conference | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2023 - ongoing | Using the rhizome-as-research: Heterogeneity, connectivity, and relationality in creative practice | Un/Common Ground: Exploring the Contours of Creativity, UniSA Creative HDR Colloquium 2023 | University of South Australia | Australia |
| 2023 - 2023 | Me and the machine: Textile/textual acts of love and quilting as research method | Critical Autoethnography Conference 2023: Love is an Action | RMIT University | Australia |