Elizabeth McMahon

Elizabeth McMahon teaches and researches Australian literature and Island Studies at UNSW and is the editor of Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal. Her recent monograph Islands Identity and the Literary Imagination (2016) won two national awards and she is currently completing a book on cross-dressing in Australian Literature.

She has co-edited three book collections: Remembering Patrick White; Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays; and Women Making Time. She is co-editing a collection on Antigone Kefala for publication in 2019.