Elizabeth is s member of the Australian Association of rhe Study of Australian Litertaure She is on the editorial board of Studies in Australian Cinema and on he aEditorial Advisory Committee for the Journal of the Assoication for the Study of Ausralian Literature
Her recent monograph, Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination (New York and London: Anthem, 2016) is the culmination of research funded by an ARC Discovery grant titled Our Island Home: The Shifting Map of Australian Literature. She has also published widely on the representation of gender and sexuality in Australian writing, and recently edited, with Dr Brigitta Olubas, a new collection on Australian author Elizabeth Harrower. Since 2008 she has co-edited Southerly, Australian oldest literary journal and co-edits a book series titled Rethinking the Island for Rowman and Littlefield International. .