Rosslyn Prosser

Dr Rosslyn Prosser

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

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.

  • 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
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Principal Supervisor Rethinking diasporic identities through the gathering of maternal storylines in Maryse Condes Segu and Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift. Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Letitia Rajamma McNamara
    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
    2018 Co-Supervisor Longpela Gut Bai: A Braided Narrative of Privilege and Loss Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Susan Chamney Hazel
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    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 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The Violet Hours Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time 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 Imogen 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
  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • Phone: 83133814
  • Email: rosslyn.prosser@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134341
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 5
  • Org Unit: School of Humanities

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