Camilla Nelson lectures in Writing at The University of Notre Dame Australia, and specialises in fiction and non-fiction writing, adaptation and history in popular culture. Previously she was a lecturer in the Creative Practices Group at UTS. In addition to a range of scholarly and other essays, she is also a published novelist. Her work includes, Perverse Acts, for which she was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year, and Crooked, which was shortlisted in the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards. Camilla is also a former journalist and has a Walkley Award, Best All Media: Online News, for her work at the Sydney Morning Herald. Camilla's work has been recognised through the award of grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Australian Film Commission. She has twice served as a judge for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Kathleen Mitchell Award, the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year Award, and served on the governing board of the NSW Writers' Centre. Camilla’s most recent book is a co-edited collection of essays On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century. She is currently working on a history of the creative idea.

Professional Affiliations:

Australasian Association of Writing Programs

Australian Society of Authors

Community Engagement:

Judge: Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year, 2015

Judge: Kathleen Mitchell Award, 2008-2014

Judge: NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2011

Governing Board: NSW Writers’ Centre, 2008-2010

Judge: NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2008

In the Media:

Camilla Nelson, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: It's the Jane Austen Horror Show,' The Conversation, 4 February 2016

[https://theconversation.com/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-its-the-jane-austen-horror-show-54111]

Camilla Nelson, ‘Friday Essay: Jane Austen’s Emma at 200’ The Conversation, 22 January, 2016, [https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-jane-austens-emma-at-200-51022]

Camilla Nelson, ‘Jane Austen’s Emma: 200 years old this year’ [Reprint] Women’s Agenda, 25 January 2016, [http://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/top-stories/item/6695-jane-austen-s-emma-at-200-years-old-this-year]

Camilla Nelson, ‘How Happiness Becomes a Burden of Identity for a Wife and Mother,’ The Conversation, June 26, 2015 [https://theconversation.com/how-happiness-becomes-a-burden-of-identity-as-a-wife-and-mother-42888]

Camilla Nelson, Sofie Laguna’s Miles Franklin Win Keeps Half the World Visible, June 24 2015, https://theconversation.com/sofie-lagunas-miles-franklin-win-helps-keep-half-the-world-visible-43769

Camilla Nelson ‘Sofie Laguna's Novel Isn't Your Traditional Miles Franklin Winner (And That's a Good Thing),’ [Reprint] ABC The Drum [http://www.abc.net ABC.au/news/2015-06-24/nelson-this-isnt-your-traditional-miles-franklin-winner/6570428]

Camilla Nelson Sofie Laguna’s Miles Franklin Win and Exposure for Women Writers,’ [Reprint] Women’s Agenda [http://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/top-stories/sofie-laguna-wins-the-miles-franklin-award-exposure-for-women-writers/201506245934#.VaeyGlz5g-0]

Camilla Nelson and Christine de Matos, ‘Historical Fiction, Fictional History: The Stories We Tell About the Past,’ The Conversation, June 9, 2015 [https://theconversation.com/historical-fiction-fictional-history-stories-we-tell-about-the-past-40315]

Camilla Nelson, ‘The Byte May Destroy the Book But the Novel Isn’t Over Yet,’ The Conversation, June 3, 2015 [https://theconversation.com/the-byte-may-destroy-the-book-but-the-novel-isnt-over-yet-42556]

Camilla Nelson ‘Puede Que los Bytes se Carguen a los Libros, Pero no Matarán a la Novella,’ [Translation] Hermano Cerdo [http://hermanocerdo.com/2015/06/puede-que-los-bytes-se-carguen-a-los-libros-pero-no-mataran-a-la-novela]

Camilla Nelson, 'Ghostwriters Haunt our Illusions about Solitary Authors,' The Conversation, 20 May, 2015 [theconversation.com/ghostwriters-haunt-our-illusions-about-solitary-authors-42048]

Camilla Nelson, 'Jane Austen Faces Death by Popularity … and Men,' The Conversation, 6 March, 2015 [theconversation.com/jane-austen-is-facing-death-by-popularity-and-men-37908]

'Gender Imbalance in HSC English Texts Criticised', Interview, Sydney Morning Herald [reprinted in the Age], November 24, 2014 [www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/gender-imbalance-in-hsc-english-texts-criticised-20141123-11r5c4.html]

'Does it matter that Most Prescribed Texts for English are Written by Men?' Interview, ABC Radio National, RN Drive, with Rebecca Huntley, November 21, 2014

Camilla Nelson, 'Sorry Kids, Men are Better Writers Than Women,' The Conversation, 18 November, 2014 [https://theconversation.com/sorry-kids-men-are-better-writers-than-women-34348]

Camilla Nelson, 'Comment: Sorry Kids, Men are Better Writers Than Women [Reprint],' [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/11/18/comment-sorry-kids-men-are-better-writers-women]

Camilla Nelson, 'The Most Underrated Book of 2014 is one of These Three,' The Conversation, 11 November, 2014 [https://theconversation.com/the-most-underrated-book-of-2014-is-one-of-these-three-33936]

Camilla Nelson, 'Comment: The Most Underrated Book of 2014 is one of These Three [Reprint],' [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/11/11/comment-most-underrated-book-2014-one-these-three]

Camilla Nelson, 'Fierce Battles Underly Judging for the Nobel Prize in Literature', The Conversation, 10 October, 2014 [https://theconversation.com/fierce-battles-underly-judging-for-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-32796]

Camilla Nelson, 'Kids and Media … Not Such a Bad Thing,' The Conversation, 9 July, 2014 [https://theconversation.com/kids-and-media-not-such-a-bad-thing-26908]

Camilla Nelson, 'Images of Australian Youth: from Symbols of Hope to Disposable Lives,' The Conversation, 16 June, 2014 [https://theconversation.com/images-of-australian-youth-from-symbols-of-hope-to-disposable-lives-27126]

Camilla Nelson, 'Here be more movie monsters: Frankenstein, Godzilla, whatevs,' The Conversation, 26 March, 2014 [https://theconversation.com/here-be-more-movie-monsters-frankenstein-godzilla-whatevs-24484]

Camilla Nelson, 'Here be more movie monsters: Frankenstein, Godzilla, whatevs,' SBS Movie News, 26 March [Reprint] http://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2014/03/26/here-be-more-movie-monsters-frankenstein-godzilla-whatevs

Camilla Nelson, 'A society yearning for security divides along lines of liquid fear' article for special issue of The Conversation on Class in Australia, 12 March 2014 [https://theconversation.com/a-society-yearning-for-security-divides-along-lines-of-liquid-fear-23009]

Camilla Nelson, 'Is mummy blogs' liberating power being subverted?' The Conversation, 5 February, 2014 [http://theconversation.com/is-mummy-blogs-liberating-power-being-subverted-21963]

Camilla Nelson, 'Is mummy blogs' liberating power being subverted?' Mumbrella, 6 February 2014 [Reprint] http://mumbrella.com.au/mummy-blogs-liberating-power-subverted-204590

Camilla Nelson, 'Toy catalogues put a Nerf gun to a mother's head', The Conversation, 20 December, 2013 [http://theconversation.com/toy-catalogues-put-a-nerf-gun-to-a-mothers-head-21158]

Camilla Nelson, 'It's No Wonder Toy Catalogue Induce Anxiety in Mothers,' Women's Agenda, December 20 [Reprint] http://www.womensagenda.com.au/guilt-free-zone/parenting/its-no-wonder-toy-catalogues-induce-anxiety-in-mothers/201312193376#]

Camilla Nelson, 'Is creativity eternal? No, we made it up ourselves', The Conversation, 11 November 2013 [http://theconversation.com/is-creativity-eternal-no-we-made-it-up-ourselves-19644]