Bethany Keats Leblais

Bethany Keats is a PhD student in creative writing and history. Her thesis is using a case study of her grandmother's against-the-odds divorce to investigate plausibility in family history biofiction and the use of gothic themes in historical fiction. 

Her research interests include women in 1950s Australia, family histories and genealogy, female gothic literature, Australian gothic literature, and the history of French migration to Australia. 

She is co-editor of Sūdō Journal and co-host of the upcoming podcast Edits & Annotations, sponsored by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. 

Watch her presentation for Romancing the Gothic on contemporary Australian gothic and its use of landscape to illustrate our discomfort of living on stolen land: 

Bethany currently works in media relations and international policy and projects for the Innovative Research Universities, and previously worked at ABC Radio Australia as a producer and journalist for their Pacific service. 

She has a Master of Marketing in Public Relations and Image Marketing from Deakin University; a Bachelor of Arts (Languages) in Japanese and Spanish from Monash University; and a Diploma of Sustainable Living from the University of Tasmania.