Brigitta Olubas

Biography

Brigitta Olubas is professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales Sydney. Her research is in Australian Literature, with a particular focus on expatriate, diasporic, migrant and refugee writing and more recently in literary biography. Her 2022 biography of Shirley Hazzard was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Nonfiction (2023), the Nib Literary Award (2023), the Magarey Award for Biography (2024) and the National Biography Award (2024). She is a former president of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and editor of the Association’s journal. She has also made a major contribution to the field of Australian Literary studies through her work as editor of scholarly editions and collections, including most recently two volumes of literary correspondence funded by ARC DP Reading Writing Lives.