Associate Professor Kate Lilley
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Associate Professor Kate Lilley

BA, PhD Lond.
Honorary Associate
Discipline of English and Writing
  • Gender and genre
  • American and African-American poetry
  • Seventeenth-century literature, especially women's writing
  • Elegy
  • Feminist theory
  • Queer theory
  • Rhetoric

Selected publications

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Publications

Books

Edited Books

  • Lilley, K. (2010). Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2002). The Blazing World and Other Writings. United States: Penguin Classics. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (1992). Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle: The Description of a New World called the Blazing World. London: Routledge. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Lilley, K. (2025). Reading the Archive of Australian Feminist Poetry Since 1970 (forthcoming). In Philip Mead and Ann Vickery (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lilley, K. (2025). The Queer Optimism of Ginsberg's "Kaddish" (for Bruce Gardiner). In Anthony Cordingley (Eds.), Literature and Pedagogy: Studies in Honour of Bruce Gardiner (forthcoming). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2021). Archiving the Undercommons: An Infrastructural Reading of Contemporary Australian Poetry. In Dan Disney and Matthew Hall (Eds.), New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, (pp. 159-169). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [More Information]

Journals

  • Hardie, M., Lilley, K. (2022). Introduction: The Way We Live Now. Southerly, 79(3), 1-5. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2021). 'Response to Daniel Tiffany', 'Forum in Poetics'. Tupelo Quarterly, 20. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2019). Museum quality: Katherine Philips, Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West and the queer early/modern. Textual Practice, 33(8), 1447-1461. [More Information]

Edited Journals

  • Lilley, K., Hardie, M. (2021). The Way We Live Now. Southerly, 79(3). [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2001). Editorial to Southerly 61.2 2001. Southerly, 61(2).

Conferences

  • Lilley, K. (2008). Denise Levertov's poetics of "revolutionary love". New Directions: the English Association English Teachers Conference 2008, Sydney: English Association, Sydney Branch.

Textual Creative Works

  • Lilley, K. (2025). Now that you’re dead I hope you’ll stay away. Rabbit 39 - Mutiny, (pp. 38 - 39). Melbourne, Australia: Cussonia Press. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2024). Dendrology. Plumwood Mountain 11.1, Queering Ecopoet(h)ics, Australia: Plumwood Inc. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2024). Exemplary. Griffith Review 84 - Attachment Styles, (pp. 32 - 33). Australia: Text Publishing Company. [More Information]

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Lilley, K. (2023). Intricacies of aliveness: A personal tribute to John Tranter (1943-2023). Australian Book Review, 454. [More Information]

Reference Works

  • Lilley, K. (2001). Aphra Behn. In Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon (Eds.), Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History. London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
  • Lilley, K. (2001). Charlotte Charke. In Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon (Eds.), Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History. London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
  • Lilley, K. (2001). Eileen Myles. In Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon (Eds.), Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History. London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

2025

  • Lilley, K. (2025). Now that you’re dead I hope you’ll stay away. Rabbit 39 - Mutiny, (pp. 38 - 39). Melbourne, Australia: Cussonia Press. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2025). Reading the Archive of Australian Feminist Poetry Since 1970 (forthcoming). In Philip Mead and Ann Vickery (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lilley, K. (2025). The Queer Optimism of Ginsberg's "Kaddish" (for Bruce Gardiner). In Anthony Cordingley (Eds.), Literature and Pedagogy: Studies in Honour of Bruce Gardiner (forthcoming). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]

2024

  • Lilley, K. (2024). Dendrology. Plumwood Mountain 11.1, Queering Ecopoet(h)ics, Australia: Plumwood Inc. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2024). Exemplary. Griffith Review 84 - Attachment Styles, (pp. 32 - 33). Australia: Text Publishing Company. [More Information]

2023

  • Lilley, K. (2023). Hic Mulier. Australian Poetry Journal 12.2 'suite, sequence', Melbourne, Australia: Australian Poetry Ltd.. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2023). Hic Mulier. Best of Australian Poems 2023, Melbourne, Australia: Australian Poetry Ltd..
  • Lilley, K. (2023). Intricacies of aliveness: A personal tribute to John Tranter (1943-2023). Australian Book Review, 454. [More Information]

2022

  • Lilley, K. (2022). Commons. Southerly, 79(3), (pp. 132 - 132). Sydney, Australia: English Association, Sydney Branch. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2022). Cure. Admissions: Voices within Mental Health, Perth, Australia: Upswell Publishing. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2022). Golden State. Australian Poetry Journal, 11.2, (pp. 27 - 28). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Poetry Ltd.. [More Information]

2021

  • Lilley, K. (2021). 'Response to Daniel Tiffany', 'Forum in Poetics'. Tupelo Quarterly, 20. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2021). A Holding Pattern. The Greenland Centre Sydney, Australia, Sydney, Australia: Agatha Gothe-Snape's The Noblest, 2018-2021.
  • Lilley, K. (2021). Archiving the Undercommons: An Infrastructural Reading of Contemporary Australian Poetry. In Dan Disney and Matthew Hall (Eds.), New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, (pp. 159-169). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [More Information]

2020

  • Lilley, K. (2020). Anne Killigrew and the Restoration of Complaint. In Sarah C. E. Ross and Rosalind Smith (Eds.), Early Modern Women's Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics, (pp. 247-266). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2020). For Noting. ABR, 425, Southbank, Victoria, Australia: Australian Book Review Incorporated. [More Information]

2019

  • Lilley, K. (2019). Museum quality: Katherine Philips, Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West and the queer early/modern. Textual Practice, 33(8), 1447-1461. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2019). When sapphos meet: Louise Imogen Guiney and Katherine Philips' 'Selected Poems' (1904). Women's Writing, 26(1), 106-124. [More Information]

2018

  • Lilley, K. (2018). Tilt, (pp. 1 - 86). Sydney, Australia: Vagabond Press.
  • Lilley, K. (2018). 'Pastoral' (poem). Australian Poetry Journal 8.2, Melbourne, Australia: Australian Poetry. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2018). 'Sprechstimme'; 'Cleft'; 'Genie'; 'Dress Circle'; 'When Ladies Meet'; 'Miltonic'; 'Little Maisie'; 'Maisily'; 'Seal'; 'Coil'; 'Lily-leaf' (poems). Contemporary Australian Poetry, (pp. 363 - 368). Glebe, NSW, Australia: Puncher and Wattmann.

2017

  • Lilley, K. (2017). 'Mortalities Memorandum' (poem). Cordite Poetry Review, February 2017, Australia: Cordite Publishing Inc.. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2017). 'Trove' (poem). Cordite Poetry Review, November 2017, Australia: Cordite Publishing Inc.. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2017). South Perth Poems: 'Rhapsody'; '1972'; 'Sequel' (poems). The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, (pp. 282 - 283). Fremantle, WA, Australia: Fremantle Press. [More Information]

2016

  • Lilley, K. (2016). 'Collegiate'; 'Almanac'; 'When Ladies Meet'; 'Miltonic'; 'Fraud's Dora' (poems). Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry, (pp. 132 - 137). Sydney, Australia: Giramondo Publishing Co..
  • Lilley, K. (2016). 'Harm's Way' (poem). Writing to the Wire. Dan Disney and Christopher Kelen (Eds.), (pp. 96 - 97). Perth, Australia: UWA Publishing. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2016). 'Lovestore' (poem). The Best Australian Poems 2016, Carlton, VIC, Australia: Black Inc.

2015

  • Lilley, K. (2015). 'Anniversary (Summer Vacation)' (poem). Bold: Stories from Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex People, (pp. 50 - 51). Panton Hill, VIC, Australia: The Rag and Bone Man Press.
  • Lilley, K. (2015). 'Atomic' (poem). Southerly, vol. 75 no. 1, Australia: English Association, Sydney Branch.
  • Lilley, K. (2015). 'Austerity' (poem). Overland, Spring no. 220, Australia: O.L. Society Ltd.. [More Information]

2014

  • Lilley, K. (2014). Katherine Philips, 'Philo-Philippa' and the Poetics of Association. In Patricia Pender, Rosalind Smith (Eds.), Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing, (pp. 118-139). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

2013

  • Lilley, K. (2013). Realia, Sydney, Australia: Vagabond Press. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2013). Blackwork: On Susan Howe's The Midnight. In Ann Vickery, John Hawke (Eds.), Poetry and the Trace, (pp. 254-268). Glebe, Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann.

2012

  • Lilley, K. (2012). 1. I wanted to feel closer to God 2. Human Scale 3. Sworn 4. Tell the Truth 5. Bookworm 6. Anniversary (Summer Vacation) 7. When Ladies Meet 8. LITTLE Maisie 9. Maisily 10. Seal 11. Coil 12. Ladylike 13. Heidiland 14. Lauralude 15. The Garden of Alla 16. Anisotropy 17. Sidonie 18.Marie. Ladylike, (pp. 1 - 70). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
  • Lilley, K. (2012). Fruits of Sodom: The Critical Erotics of Early Modern Women's Writing. Parergon, 29(2), 175-192. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2012). Ladylike. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing. [More Information]

2011

  • Lilley, K. (2011). Round Vienna, Sydney, Australia: Vagabond Press. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2011). Crush. The Best Australian Poems 2011, (pp. 102 - 103). Collingwood, Australia: Black Inc. Publishing.
  • Lilley, K. (2011). In the Hewett Archive. JASAL, 11(1 (Special issue: Archive Madness)), 1-14.

2010

  • Lilley, K. (2010). 'These novels of my life': Mary Carleton's crimes. Australian Feminist Studies, 25(65), 265-279. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2010). Dedicated thought: Montaigne, Bacon, and the English Renaissance Essay. In Susannah Brietz Monta and Margaret W. Ferguson (Eds.), Teaching Early Modern English Prose, (pp. 95-112). New York, NY: Modern Language Association (MLA).
  • Lilley, K. (2010). Dress circle. Best Australian Poems 2010, (pp. 149 - 149). Collingwood, Australia: Black Inc.

2009

  • Lilley, K. (2009). 1. Discovery. Out of the Box: contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets, (pp. 72 - 72). Sydney, Australia: Puncher & Wattmann.
  • Lilley, K. (2009). 1. In the sun. Out of the Box: contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets, (pp. 84 - 84). Sydney, Australia: Puncher and Wattmann.
  • Lilley, K. (2009). 1. Live at the Opry. Out of the Box: contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets, (pp. 103 - 103). Sydney, Australia: Puncher and Wattmann.

2008

  • Lilley, K. (2008). "Imaginarie in manner: reall in matter": Rachel Speght's Dreame and the female scholar-poet. In Not known (Eds.), Reading the Early Modern Dream: The Terrors of the Night, (pp. 97-108). TBC.
  • Lilley, K. (2008). Almanac [portfolio: Lilley, Kate: Ladylike]. Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia, (pp. 108 - 109). Singapore, Singapore: Ethos Books Pagesetters Services.
  • Lilley, K. (2008). Cento: Round Vienna. Women's Work, (pp. 316 - 317). Bridgend, United Kingdom: Seren Press.

2007

  • Lilley, K. (2007). 1972. Dangdai aodaliya shige xuan (anthology poetry), Shanghai, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province): Shanghai Wen Yi Chu Ban She.
  • Lilley, K. (2007). 3 Poems - Drafty, Artemisia Countrified, Pet. (pp. 112 - 113). Sydney, Australia: English Association, Sydney Branch.
  • Lilley, K. (2007). Rhetorical Sex: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. In Susan E. Thomas (Eds.), What is the New Rhetoric?, (pp. 126-139). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2006

  • Lilley, K. (2006). A section of six poems. Canada: Ecrits des Forges.
  • Lilley, K. (2006). Australian Twenty-Five Poets. UNSPECIFIED: .
  • Lilley, K. (2006). Descending. In John Kinsella (Eds.), School Days, (pp. 168-172). Fremantle WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

2005

  • Lilley, K. (2005). 'Cento: Around Vienna'; 'My Bad'; 'Miltonic'. Jacket Magazine, April 2005, Sydney, Australia: Australian Literary Management.
  • Lilley, K. (2005). Australian Literature Resources [20 poems]. UNSPECIFIED: .
  • Lilley, K. (2005). Featured Australian Poet, Poetry International Web [12 poems]. UNSPECIFIED: .

2003

  • Lilley, K. (2003). Best Australian Poems [5 poems]. UNSPECIFIED: .
  • Lilley, K. (2003). Blazing worlds: Seventeenth-century women's utopian writing. In Diane Purkiss, Clare Brant (Eds.), Women, texts and histories 1575-1760, (pp. 101-132). London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2003). Contracting readers: 'Margaret Newcastle' and the rhetoric of conjugality. In Not known (Eds.), A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, (pp. 19-39). TBC.

2002

  • Lilley, K. (2002). Versary, (pp. vii - 98). Applecross, WA, Australia: Salt Publishing.
  • Lilley, K. (2002). The Blazing World and Other Writings. United States: Penguin Classics. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (2002). Versary. Australia: Fremantle Press. [More Information]

2001

  • Lilley, K. (2001). 'Dear Object': Katherine Philips' Love Elegies and their Readers. Women's Writing, , 163-178.
  • Lilley, K. (2001). An Interview with John Tranter. Southerly, 61(2), 7-23.
  • Lilley, K. (2001). Aphra Behn. In Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon (Eds.), Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History. London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

1997

  • Lilley, K. (1997). Between anthologies: Feminism and genealogies of Australian women's poetry. Australian Feminist Studies, 12(26), 265-273. [More Information]

1996

  • Lilley, K. (1996). Lesbian Professor. Australian Feminist Studies, 11(23), 81-88. [More Information]

1992

  • Lilley, K. (1992). Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle: The Description of a New World called the Blazing World. London: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Lilley, K. (1992). The Blazing World and other Writings. The Blazing World and Other Writings. United States: Penguin Classics.

Selected Grants

2016

  • Teaching Literature and Writing in the Digital Age, Hesse I, Rooney B, Johinke R, Yahp B, Lee F, Lilley K, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant

2011

  • The Material Cultures of Early Modern Womens Writing: Editing, Reception and Mediation, Smith R, Pender P, Salzman P, Lilley K, Ross S, O'Callaghan M, Wiseman S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)