Rosslyn Prosser

Research Interests

Creative Arts Gender Specific Studies Life Histories Performing Arts and Creative Writing Visual Cultures

Dr Rosslyn Prosser

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Rosslyn Prosser is Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide.Areas of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, teaching and writing include Creative Writing, Memory, Gender and Sexuality and Ficto-criticism.

Date Position Institution name
2011 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2006 - 2011 Lecturer University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Adelaide Australia PhD
University of Technology, Sydney Australia MA Writing
University of South Australia Australia BA Communications Studies

Year Citation
2025 Cover, R., & Prosser, R. (2025). The ethics of welcome in place: LGBTQ+ migrants to South Australia. Continuum, 13 pages.
DOI
2024 Eades, Q., Carruthers, A. J., Campbell, A., Walker, A., Jackson, A., Vickery, A., . . . Drummond, W. (2024). We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia. Text (Australia), 28(Special 73), 1-12.
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2022 Cover, R., Prosser, R., & Dau, D. (2022). The corporeality of sound: drag performance, lip-synching and the popular critique of gendered theatrics in Australian film and television. Media International Australia, 182(1), 81-94.
DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2017 Prosser, R., & Baird, B. (2017). The Marching Dunstans. Media International Australia, 1-12.
2017 Baird, B., & Prosser, R. (2017). The Marching Dunstans: performing memory, queering memory. Media International Australia, 165(1), 25-36.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2013 Prosser, R. (2013). Transiting to a new self: the codes of regendering and remembering. Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, 33(3), 58-60.
2013 Cover, R., & Prosser, R. (2013). Memorial accounts: queer young men, identity and contemporary coming out narratives online. Australian Feminist Studies, 28(75), 81-94.
DOI Scopus24 WoS19
2012 Prosser, R. (2012). Dear Marg. Australian Feminist Studies, 27(73), 307-311.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2009 Prosser, R. (2009). Fragments of a Fictocritical Dictionary. Outskirts (Online Edition), 20, online.
2009 Prosser, R. (2009). Honours and postgraduate gender studies and media studies: ficto-critical writing practices. Outskirts, 20.
2008 Prosser, R. (2008). Inventory of childhood. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(57), 417-422.
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2007 Prosser, R. (2007). Recognition factors. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 3(3), 171-174.
2007 Prosser, R. (2007). Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Ethics. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 4(4), 384-385.
- Prosser, R. (2016). Gender Bender. Unknown Journal, 1-3.
DOI

Year Citation
2024 Cover, R., & Prosser, R. (2024). Queer Memory and Storytelling: Gender and Sexually-Diverse Identities and Trans-Media Narrative. Routledge.
DOI Scopus5
2020 Prosser, R., & Mountfort, P. (Eds.) (2020). Scorchers A Climate Change Anthology. New Zealand: Eunoia.
2013 Costello, M., Brooks, B., Gibbs, A., & Prosser, R. (Eds.) (2013). Mud map: anthology of Australian women's experimental writing. Australia: Australasian Association of Writing Programs.

Year Citation
2025 Prosser, R. (2025). Fictocriticism. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (pp. 150-152). Edward Elgar Publishing.
DOI
2021 Prosser, R. (2021). Vonni Diva: Showgirl. In M. Edward, & S. Farrier (Eds.), Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene (Vol. 2, 1 ed., pp. 97-108). London, United Kingdom: Methuen Drama.
DOI Scopus2
2002 Prosser, R. (2002). Writing + Memory = Memory Writing. In Terri ann White (Ed.), Salt: An International Journal of Poetry and Poetics: Memory writing (pp. 157-173). Applecross, WA ; Great Wilbraham, Cambridge: Salt Publishing.
1995 Prosser, R. W. (1995). Water Dreamers. In G. Papaellinas (Ed.), Republica (Vol. 3, pp. 189-196). Australia: Angus and Robertson.

Year Citation
2014 Prosser, R. W. (2014). We are all Venetians (No. Of Pieces: 1-7 pages 777 words Poetry) [text]. Soul Box HindleyStreet Adelaide: Feast Festival.
2013 Prosser, R. (2013). Cultural Conversation: Expanding on the 'Transit Lounge'. (No. Of Pieces: 1 hour) [Performance]. Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus.

Year Citation
2018 Authors: Prosser RW. Title: Map Failures. Description: Published in Westerly, 2018; 6(Special issue):99-102.. Extent: 4 p..
2017 Authors: Prosser RW. Title: How to Make Whips. Extent: 1 poem.
2017 Authors: Prosser R. Title: The Queer Counter Archive. Extent: 15th October - 12 th November 2017 (Exhibition).
2015 Authors: Prosser R. Title: Domestic Rituals. Description: http://murraybridgegallery.com.au/welcome/displayExhibition/187. Extent: 4 pages 724 words Catalogue essay.
2015 Authors: Prosser R, Mitchell G. Title: RXP. Extent: 3141 words.
2014 Authors: Prosser R. Title: Three Moon Creek. Description: Published online: 04 Oct 2013. Extent: 10 pages.
DOI
2013 Authors: Prosser R. Title: Incisor - a performance of a work of prose poetry. Extent: 1 hour.
2011 Authors: Prosser R. Title: The Postcard: The Fragment. Description: Type of work : ERA10B. Extent: 7 pages.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1

Year Citation
2015 Authors: Prosser R. Title: On the Beach An episode of the Wide Open Road live performance and radio broadcast. Description: A radio show broadcast around Australia using original writing and song. The performance is to a live audience with live broadcast and downloadable podcast.. Extent: 5 pages, 15 minutes.
2015 Authors: Prosser R. Title: Wide Open Road 'Woman'. Description: On the last Saturday of the month from August 2015 through to July 2015, writers, musicians and radio types combined for a unique live stage show – a ‘literary cabaret’.. Extent: 60 minutes.
2015 Authors: Prosser R. Title: Wide Open Road 'Woman'. Description: On the last Saturday of the month from August 2015 through to July 2015, writers, musicians and radio types combined for a unique live stage show – a ‘literary cabaret’.. Extent: 60 minutes.
2013 Authors: Prosser R. Title: Thank you: I love you: Extraction. Extent: 1 presentation.

Year Citation
2016 Prosser, R., & Baird, B. (2016). Marching Dunstans (No. Of Pieces: 2 hours) [Exhibition]. Adelaide.
2016 Prosser, R. (2016). "Showgirl: The Costumes of an Iconic Adelaide Diva" (No. Of Pieces: 2 days) [Exhibition]. Migration Museum, Adelaide.
2013 Prosser, R. (2013). Transit lounge (No. Of Pieces: 1 month) [Exhibition]. SASA Gallery, Adelaide: SASA Gallery.
  • Title: LGBTQ Migrations: Life Story Narratives in the South Australian GLAM Sector
  • Funding scheme: 51715010: ARC - Linkage Projects
  • Description: This project investigates the role gender and sexual diversity play in migration and mobility to South Australia 1950-1999 and how stories of migration can be collected and preserved. Histories in relation to interstate, international, and global migration into South Australia exist, however there is a significant need to address the lack of knowledge on, and record of, how minority sexuality and gender influenced moving to South Australia. Limited information prevents a full understanding of migration histories. This project works with the History Trust of South Australia to address a recognised and strategic need for greater inclusiveness of gender and sexual diversity in the context of migration.
  • Funder name: Australian Research Council
  • Funder reference: LP180100251
  • Investigators: Prosser R; Cover R; Sullivan N; Paul M
  • Amount: $195,535.00

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor The Story Surgeon: Navigating Diasporic Asian Subjectivities Through Fictocriticism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Cindy Khavy Tran
2025 Co-Supervisor The Story Surgeon: Navigating Diasporic Asian Subjectivities Through Fictocriticism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Cindy Khavy Tran
2024 Principal Supervisor Reading-as-Witnessing in the Trans-Indigenous Literacy Archive: a Study of Lee Maracle and Alexis Wright Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Laura Rose Hamilton
2024 Principal Supervisor Reading-as-Witnessing in the Trans-Indigenous Literacy Archive: a Study of Lee Maracle and Alexis Wright Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Laura Rose Hamilton
2022 Principal Supervisor Poetry as Geography, Poet as Psychocartographer: A Reading of Uche Nduka Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Osu Ishaya
2022 Principal Supervisor Poetry as Geography, Poet as Psychocartographer: A Reading of Uche Nduka Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Osu Ishaya

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Volume 1 Creative Writing Component: In the Shadow of the Cherry Blossom
Volume 2 Exegesis: Invisible Ink: Reconfiguring Tattoo Representation in Fiction		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Stephen William Abram
2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor NUMBERS BY PAINT Quantifying aesthetic receptions Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Edith Mina Lyre
2019 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Narratives of Child Abduction in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe
Volume 1: Novella
Volume 2: Exegesis		 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Anj Foley
2018 - 2025 Co-Supervisor longtaim gutbai: letters, epistolary narrative, memory and truth Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Susan Chamney Hazel
2018 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The Violet Hours Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Annabel Edwina Evitts
2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Kookaburra: anti-tales of laughing doom
Volume 1 and Volume 2		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Gretta Jade Mitchell
2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor From Zero Hour to Kudzucene: Reading Margaret Atwood's Post-Millennial Novels under the Auspices of Anthropocene Thought Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Ruby Rose Niemann
2017 - 2020 Co-Supervisor The Masks That Wear Men: The Representation of Masculine Masquerade In 1990s American Action Cinema Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Kate Marie Bowen
2017 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Just Deserts: Reading, Writing and Rewarding Australian Women’s Crime Fiction Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jessie Byrne
2017 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Parts Per Million Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Michael Hugh Roder
2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Volume 1: Scapegrace
Volume 2: The (Absent) Female Body: Cross-dressing Narratives in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Emily Francine Palmer
2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Volume 1 Plumbago: Volume 2 The Aftermath of Psychical Trauma: Finding a Voice Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Eleanor Anne Wills
2013 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Vietnam to the World, a Magical Connection: 'Embers of Time' (a novel) and
'Bridging Disparate Realms' (an exegesis)		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Ngoc Thu Hoang
2013 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Notes from Above Water: Fictocriticism as Queer Creative Research Practice Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Alison Jane Coppe
2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Deterrence Vivarium: A Collection of Stories and Exegesis Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Matthew Gabriel
2012 - 2013 Co-Supervisor The 'Murdering Twinmaker' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sean Llewellyn Williams
2012 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Illegible Narratives: Towards a Queer Violation of Life Story Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Gretta Jade Mitchell
2012 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Shadow of The Archers and Crossing Over: Writing Young Adult Fiction and Finding the Contemporary Reader Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Kezia Perry
2011 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Nick Mount Blow by blow - Reconfiguring biography: A genre in motion Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Denise Kaye George
2011 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Self-Writing in the Age of the Internet: A Novel and Exegesis Vol 1 & Vol 2 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Connor Tomas O'Brien
2011 - 2016 Principal Supervisor On Smith Street and Short Stories in the Digi-Social World Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Lynette Barbara Washington
2010 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Discourses of Film Terrorism: Hollywood representations of Arab terrorism and counter-terrorism, 1991–2011 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Jay William Reid
2007 - 2010 Co-Supervisor Crossing Over: Theorising Mehta's Film Trilogy; Practicing Diasporic Creativity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sukhmani Khorana

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