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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania

Originally from the UK, Liz Evans is an Adjunct Researcher and sessional academic at the University of Tasmania. Primarily a writer, she began her career as a music journalist in London during the 1990s, when she was a lead feature writer and music critic and published two books on women and rock culture. Her work has since appeared in The Guardian, Elle UK, The Independent, New Statesman, NME, i-D, Dumbo Feather, Womankind, TasWeekend, and Island Magazine, among many, many other publications. She is also a qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist.

As a creative writer, her practise-based research is focused on the representation of women in contemporary psychological suspense fiction, and spans psychoanalytic theory, gender studies and creative writing. She has also been active in the fields of ecopsychology, ecofeminism, sustainability literacy, and environmental communications.

Her fiction has earned her three fellowships and an Education Residency, and her debut novel, Catherine Wheel, was published in July 2024. Having spent a year lecturing in English and Writing units at UTas, Liz is now working full-time on her second novel for Ultimo Press.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Associate lecturer, University of Tasmania
  • 1988–present
    Writer/Journalist/Author/Editor/Educator, Self-Employed

Education

  • 2022 
    University of Tasmania, PhD Creative Writing
  • 2003 
    University of Essex, MA Jungian and PostJungian Studies (Hons)
  • 1986 
    Polytechnic of North London, BA Humanities (Hons)

Publications

  • 2024
    Catherine Wheel: A Novel (Ultimo Press),
  • 2021
    The Girl Who Got Mad: Challenging Psychopathology in Domestic Noir's Antiheroines via Sarah Vaughan's Anatomy of A Scandal (2018), Clues; A Journal of Detection
  • 2020
    Re-Writing the Psycho-Bitch: Exploring the Psychological Complexity of the Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Domestic Noir Fiction, Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners & Survivors (Rowman & Littlefield)
  • 2006
    Developing a Jungian Ecopsychology, Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture
  • 2005
    A Critique of Analytical Psychology Approaches to Ecofeminist Spirituality, Harvest International Journal of Jungian Studies (
  • 2005
    Anima(l)s: Women, Nature and Jung, Anima(l)s: Women, Nature and Jung
  • 1997
    Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock (Pandora Press/HarperRow),
  • 1994
    Women, Sex and Rock'n'Roll: In Their Own Words (Pandora Press/HarperRow),