Patrick Flanery

Professor Patrick Flanery is the Chair in Creative Writing at the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide. He was born in California, raised in Nebraska, and holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford on Evelyn Waugh’s publishing and adaptation histories. He has taught modern and contemporary literature at the University of Sheffield and held academic positions in the U.K. as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Reading and Queen Mary University of London.

• Research Interests: Literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and critical theory intersecting with transnationalism, surveillance, queer identity, and psychoanalysis.
• Awards: 2012 Spear’s/Laurent Perrier Best First Book Award; shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize.
• Publications: Four novels (Absolution, Fallen Land, I Am No One, Night for Day) and a hybrid creative-critical memoir, The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption.

His work explores themes of subjectivity, trauma, memory, migration, and political anxieties, often blending formal experimentation with critical inquiry.