About
Dr. Daniel Dixon is an Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Writing at The University of Sydney. He holds a PhD in English from the same institution (2019) and a BA from the University of Queensland. His research focuses on the essay form, American literature, and intersections of literature with psychoanalysis and philosophy. He coordinates postmodernism and U.S. literature units, teaches across Writing Studies and Creative Writing, and advises Dalyell Scholars.
Dr. Dixon served as Managing Editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies (2019–2022) and was a 2022 Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellow. His monograph Do I Know You?: How Authors Enter Our Lives (University of Iowa Press, 2026) explores reader-author relationships through post-1945 American essays. His writing appears in venues like The Guardian, Meanjin, and Overland, emphasizing literary criticism, cultural analysis, and personal essay forms.
Research interests include creative nonfiction, literary theory, and the philosophical dimensions of reading. Teaching focuses on academic writing, rhetoric, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. Recent publications analyze works by James Baldwin, Joan Didion, and David Foster Wallace, while his 2023 essays address AI's impact on education and publishing ethics.
