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Dr Emmett Stinson

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: e.stinson@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6523-9563

Dr Emmett Stinson is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Background

Emmett Stinson completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, and a BA in Honours English Literature at Georgetown University.

He is a literary scholar, a creative writer, and an expert on the global publishing industry. He was a member of Senator Kim Carr's federal Book Industry Strategy Group. He co-founded and was President of the Small Press Network—the Australian advocacy body for independent publishers, which is housed in the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing, and Ideas.

He won the Melbourne Age Short Story Award, and his book of short stories, Known Unknowns, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.

He was a CI on the ARC Discovery Project, 'New Tastemakers and Australia's Post-Digital Literary Culture'. He is also the author of Murnane (Melbourne University Press, 2023) and Satirizing Modernism (Bloomsbury 2017), and a co-author of Banning Islamic Books in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2011).

Awards and recognition

  • Shortlisted for the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) Prize in Literary Scholarship (2024)
  • Shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards (2010)
  • Winner, The Melbourne Age Short Story Award (2005)

University and national teaching awards

  • University of Tasmania Teaching Merit Award (2023)
  • Faculty of Education and Arts Award in Collaboration Excellence, University of Newcastle (2017)

National and international research awards

  • Shortlisted for the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship

Research areas and interests

  • Experimental literature
  • Publishing studies
  • Sociology of literature

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne, 2014.

Research Outputs

2025

Journal Articles

  • Stinson, E. (2025). GERALD MURNANE’S TRANSNATIONAL RECEPTION. Mémoires du livre: Studies in Book Culture, 16(2), 24 pages.

2024

Journal Articles

2023

Books

  • Stinson, E. (2023). Murnane. Melbourne University Press.

Book Chapters

  • Stinson, E. (2023). Publishing the Australian Novel. Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel (96-111). Cambridge University Press.
  • Stinson, E. (2023). The Economics of the Literary Novel. The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel (405-420). Cambridge University Press.
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