Nicole Anae

Nicole Anae graduated from Charles Sturt University with a B.Ed and Dip.T before earning her PhD through the Faculty of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include the English literatures, Shakespeare, theatre history, Australian colonial and postcolonial writing, embodiment and performance, and the interplay between literature, performance and identity. Her work typically explores historical and contemporary encounters between literature and culture with a view to examining literature’s role in shaping cultural literacies and identity. She is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University but has also worked at the University of South Australia, the University of the South Pacific (Laucala Bay Campus in Suva, Fiji), Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga campus), and the University of Southern Queensland (Springfield).