Katerina is a writer and early career researcher whose research spans memoir writing, speculative biography, disability, and archival research, specifically the archival traces of women. Her academic work focuses on narrative, women’s lived experience, archives, and most recently, how tech is shaped through language.
Her first book, Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History (NewSouth), was published in 2020. Katerina completed her PhD, a hybrid memoir/biography of the first woman clown in America, in 2022.
As a creative writing scholar, Katerina writes across forms and mediums; her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Meanjin, Griffith Review and Kill Your Darlings, amongst... Read more
About me
Katerina is a writer and early career researcher whose research spans memoir writing, speculative biography, disability, and archival research, specifically the archival traces of women. Her academic work focuses on narrative, women’s lived experience, archives, and most recently, how tech is shaped through language.
Her first book, Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History (NewSouth), was published in 2020. Katerina completed her PhD, a hybrid memoir/biography of the first woman clown in America, in 2022.
As a creative writing scholar, Katerina writes across forms and mediums; her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Meanjin, Griffith Review and Kill Your Darlings, amongst others. Katerina has received a number of fellowships, including the National Library of Australia Summer Scholarship Circus and Illinois State University Allied Arts Collection Fellowship. She is currently a SA Literary Fellow at the State Library of South Australia, working on a manuscript about women and chess.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
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| 2024 |
Open access
2
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
1
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| 2020 |
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| Year | Output |
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| 2020 |
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| Year | Output |
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| 2024 |
Open access
2
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
1
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SA Literary Fellowship (Mid-Career), Writers SA and State Library of South Australia, January 2024
Transnational Literature Fellowship, Flinders University, October 2022 – January 2023
National Library of Australia Summer Scholarship, January – March 2020
Circus and Allied Arts Collection Fellowship, Illinois State University, 2020
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
SA Literary Fellowship (Mid-Career)Writers SA and State Library of South Australia |
2024 |
Spark Prize (Shortlisted)Hardie Grant and RMIT |
2022 |
Transnational Literature FellowshipFlinders University |
2022 |
Vice-Chancellors Award for Doctoral Thesis ExcellenceFlinders University |
2022 |
Best Higher Degree by Research Student PublicationFlinders University |
2020 |
Circus and Allied Arts Collection FellowshipIllinois State University |
2020 |
Summer ScholarshipNational Library of Australia |
2020 |
Experimental Nonfiction Prize (Shortlisted)The Lifted Brow/RMIT |
2019 |
Feminartsy Memoir Prize (Shortlisted)Feminartsy |
2018 |
Varuna Fellowship for Emerging WritersWriters SA |
2018 |
Media Incubator and Innovation Fund (Shortlisted on behalf of ‘Writers Bloc’)Walkleys |
2017 |
Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers (Shortlisted)Scribe Publications |
2016 |
Teaching & student supervision
