Brigitta Olubas

Professor Brigitta Olubas, an academic in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, specializes in Australian literature with particular focus on diasporic, migrant and refugee writing. Her research bridges literary modernism with contemporary cultural theory, examining intersections between gender, transnationalism, and narrative form.

• Authored Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life (2022), shortlisted for four major awards
• Co-edited Hazzard & Harrower: The Letters (2024) and Expatriates of No Country (2024)
• Currently working on Revenant: The Caribbean Lives of Jean Rhys (forthcoming)

Her publications explore:

• Literary biography and archival recovery
• Postcolonial and transnational frameworks
• Gender and textual experimentation
• Ecocritical and speculative fiction

Scientific awards include:

• Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Award (2022)
• Nib Literary Award finalist (2022)
• Magarey Medal for Biography (2023)
• National Biography Award (2024)

As a supervisor, she has guided 15 doctoral candidates in areas including:

• Antigone Kefala's diasporic poetics
• Migrant visual culture
• Queer literary transnationalism
• Posthuman feminist theory