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

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