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Dr. Peter Minter is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s Discipline of English and Writing within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He specializes in Indigenous literatures, ecopoetics, and transnational avant-garde studies. As Coordinator of the Indigenous Australian Studies Major and Honours program, he emphasizes decolonial methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches. Minter is a leading figure in Australian poetry, having edited major anthologies like the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature (awarded the 2008 Deadly Award) and co-founded the Cordite poetry journal. His research bridges Aboriginal poetics with modernist, surrealist, and ecological frameworks. He currently edits Overland and Blackbox Manifolds, contributing to literary infrastructure projects like BlackWords. Awards include The Age Poetry Book of the Year (2000) and a NSW Premier’s Prize shortlist (1996).
Research focuses on Indigenous literary history, environmental humanities, and creative writing pedagogy. Teaching includes courses like Indigenous Ecopoetics and Transnational Indigenous Poetics. Grants include an Australian Research Council project on Narrative Ecologies of Warragamba Dam (2022). Minter’s creative works span poetry collections (Case of Fire, 2022) and interdisciplinary projects like A Mount Tomah Companion (2017), blending botany and Indigenous knowledge. His work appears in Southerly, Kenyon Review, and international journals.
