Rate My Professor Rachel Watts

Her academic background includes a Master of Media and Communication specializing in Creative Writing, obtained from Curtin University between July 2015 and June 2017. She is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at Curtin University, with her research focusing on narrative complexity in ecological and climate change fiction. As a writer, Rachel Watts produces literary and speculative fiction, as well as short creative non-fiction. Her creative works have been published in prominent Australian literary magazines, including Westerly, Island, and Kill Your Darlings. In the academic realm, she has published the article "'Every woman adores a fascist': Feminist literary intervention in elegiac writing" in the TEXT journal in 2019. Prior to her role at Curtin, she had a career in journalism, where she was recognized with an award for her series "Out of Mind: Uncovering Mental Illness" produced by the Community Newspaper Group WA at the 2005 TheMHS Awards. She has also contributed to literary editing as a member of the editorial board for prose pieces in SWAMP journal.