Elizabeth Smyth

Elizabeth Smyth's writing and research is grounded in literary experiences and representations of place.

As Postgraduate Research Fellow, Australian Literature, at the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing, she engages with ecocriticism, georgic studies and transnational comparative analyses to develop new insights and understandings of Australian literature. 

In 2026, Elizabeth visited Washington DC as a Queensland-Smithsonian Fellow to examine representations of tropical forests for a comparative analysis of nineteenth century travel writing set in North Queensland and the Congo.

Previously Elizabeth worked as a research assistant on the 'To Be Continued' National Newspaper Fiction Database, an ARC-funded project administered by the Australian National University.

In her creative practice, Elizabeth writes both long and short forms of narrative prose that depict various aspects of life in the Australian Wet Tropics. A recent work of creative non-fiction "The Long Sentence" was published in ROAM: Representations of Home Creative Journal, University of Lisbon. Recent short fiction is "Alone Together" published by the iconic Australian journal, Meanjin.