• Find an Expert
  • Contact
  • SearchSearch icon
  • Menu
  • Help
  • Report an issue

Contact


Email

hennessy.r@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
School of Culture and Communication
Education
PhD
The University of Adelaide
Masters (Coursework)
Adelaide University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Newcastle
ORCID

0000-0002-8840-8494

Dr Rachel Hennessy

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
School of Culture and Communication

22 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Mashing It Up: Creative Writing Pedagogy and the Affective Possibilities of Genre Meeting Climate Fiction
    DOI: 10.1017/aee.2025.10063
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Happily ever after in the age of climate crisis: The argument for “cli-ro”
    DOI: 10.52086/001c.142614
  • 2024

    Journal article

    The Limitations of Posthuman Potentiality: Interspecies Collisions in Three Young Adult Speculative Trilogies
    DOI: 10.24877/ijyal.133
  • 2024

    Journal article

    From the ground up: Perspectives from “Thinking Writing” classrooms on the critical creative nexus
    DOI: 10.52086/001c.126958
  • 2024

    Journal article

    ‘A shared commitment … not to be miserable’: a Posthuman Artists’ Laboratory to explore writing collaborative climate fiction
    DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2023.2253195
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Author experiences of researching, writing and marketing climate fiction
    DOI: 10.52086/001c.90091
  • 2023

    Original Creative Work

    City Knife: Book 3 of The Burning Days
Rachel Hennessy

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Journal article

    The Land of the Wet
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Encouraging ‘children of the compost’: in search of a posthuman theory of character
    DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2021.1891260
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Creating new climate stories: Posthuman collaborative hope and optimism
    DOI: 10.52086/001C.35289

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated

Read about our commitment to reconciliation  

About us  

Careers at Melbourne  

Safety and respect  

Newsroom  

Contact  

Phone: 13 MELB ( 13 6352)

International: +61 3 9035 5511


Address:
The University of Melbourne
Grattan Street, Parkville,
Victoria, 3010, Australia


View all Campus locations  
facebookIconlinkedinIconinstagramIcontwitterIcon

Emergency information  |  Disclaimer and copyright  |  Accessibility  |  Privacy  |  VaxFACTS

CRICOS number: 00116K     ABN: 84 002 705 224