Deborah Wardle
Details
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College: Design and Social Context
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Department: Design and Social Context
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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deborah.wardle@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-2942-7510
About
Dr Deborah Wardle is a fiction and non-fiction writer. Her book Subterranean Imaginaries and Groundwater Narratives (Routledge, 2023) explores climate writing expressions of groundwater’s potency and vulnerability. Deborah published a collection of writing from research and fieldwork on the Barwon Downs borefield, Understanding Aquifers through Groundwater Stories (deborahwardle.com 2024). She edited and contributed ‘Nonhuman Imaginaries’ to A to Z of Creative Writing Methods (Boomsbury 2023). She has stories and essays published in significant Australian and International journals including Meanjin, Overland, and The Big Issue, Swamphen, Junctures (New Zealand) Feral Feminisms, (Canada) Meniscus, Mosaic (Canada), and Animal Studies Journal. Deborah has taught creative writing and climate literature at University of Melbourne and RMIT. Deborah lives on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in central Victoria and is passionate about grassland restoration. She is working on her first novel, climate fiction, featuring groundwater and threats to its sustainability in rural Australia.
Teaching interests
Deborah has taught extensively at RMIT, University of Melbourne, Federation University and La Trobe University in creative writing subjects and in literature and environments subjects. She has a strong commitment to genuine student engagement to enhance creative outcomes.
Research interests
As an Adjunct Fellow in Creative writing, Deborah is continuing her research into fiction and non-fiction expressions of groundwater's potency and vulnerability.
