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Lisa Fletcher

(She/Her)

Lisa Fletcher is Dean of Graduate Research and Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on contemporary literary culture and industry. Lisa's books include "Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity", "Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings", "Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction" co-authored with Ralph Crane, and "Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First Century Book Culture" co-authored co-authored with Kim Wilkins and Beth Driscoll.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Professor of English, University of Tasmania
  • 2023–present
    Dean of Graduate Research, University of Tasmania

Education

  • 2003 
    University of Melbourne, PhD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2016
    Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2015
    The Genre World of Romance in 21st-Century Australia
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Romance Writers of America