Dr Lili Pâquet

Senior Lecturer in Writing - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Lili Pâquet

Phone: +61 6773 2650

Email: lpaquet@une.edu.au

Biography

Lili Pâquet specialises in writing studies and rhetoric. Her book, Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye, examines the crime novels of women who have previously worked in the criminal justice system as lawyers, forensic experts, and detectives. Her current research focuses on digital literatures, true crime, and rhetoric. Lili has published creative writing and poetry in various journals and collections, and media outreach through The Guardian, Stylist, ABC National, and others.

Qualifications

PhD, USYD
BA (Hons 1 and Faculty Medal) UoN
BMus UoN

Awards

Finalist in Joanne Burns Microlit Award, 2024.

Finalist in Joanne Burns Microlit Award, 2023.

VC’s Citation for Excellence in Education, UNE, 2023.

Russel B. Nye Award for outstanding article published in Journal of Popular Culture, Runner-up, 2020

Teaching Areas

Various WRIT-coded units, including:

WRIT309/509 Writing Creative Non-fiction

WRIT329/529 Publishing Practice

Primary Research Area/s

Crime Fiction Writing; Rhetoric; True Crime

Research Interests

Research Interests
Crime fiction
True crime
Digital and social media publishing
Rhetoric

Grants
HASSE Early Career Research Scheme, 2019

USYD travel grant (international) for archival research at Boston University, 2014

Research Supervision Experience

PhDs

MPhils

Honours

Project units (HASS301, HASS506, HASS512)

Publications

Books

Pâquet, L. & R. Williamson (Eds.). True Crime and Women: Writers, Readers, and Representations. Routledge, forthcoming.

Pâquet, L. Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye: Women Writers with Law Enforcement and Justice Experience. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2018.

Book chapters

Pâquet, L. & R. Williamson. “Women’s Magazines, Crime and Justice: Invitational Rhetoric in A Decade of True Crime in Australian Women’s Weekly.”

Pâquet, L. & R. Williamson. “True Crime and Women: New Perspectives.” True Crime and Women: Writers, Readers, and Representations. Eds. L. Pâquet & R. Williamson. Routledge, forthcoming.

Pâquet, L. “Digital Publishing and Its Detractors.” Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Eds. C. Benthien, V. Keylin, W. Vorrath and H. Wehmeier, De Gruyter, forthcoming.

Pâquet, L. & W. Moss-Wellington. “Engendering Humanism and Care for the Environment through Podcasts.” Confronting the Climate Crisis: Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics. Eds. D. Binns & R. Najdowski. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

Pâquet, L. “Vigilante Frontier Communities on Australian Screens: Bushrangers, Bikies, and Bogans.” Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture: A Global Perspective. Eds. P. Robson and F. Spina, Rowman & Little, 2022: 79-104.

Pâquet, L. “Publishing Processes for a Digital Age: Crowdsourcing and Patronage in Online Self-Publishing.” Praxis, Practice, Print: Creative Writing Scholars on the Publishing Trade. Eds. M. Moore and S. Meekings, Routledge, 2021: 7-18.

Pâquet, L. “Cleaver Greene: The Legal Larrikin of Australian Television.” Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses, edited by K. Weinert, K. Crawley, and K. Tranter. Routledge, 2020: 201-219.

Articles

Williamson, R. & L. Pâquet. “Life as Prime Minister: A Genre Study of Speeches Made by Australian Prime Ministers Following Leadership Spills.” Life Writing, (2023).

Pâquet, L. “‘Learning From Weakness Is Also Valuable’: A Reflection on Digital Peer Writing Workshops Held During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Special Issue on Higher Education and Digital Writing in a Post-Pandemic World. Eds. R. Johinke, F. DiLauro, & R. Cummings, (2023).

Pâquet, L. “A Police-Run True Crime Podcast: A Comparison of Justice in State Crime Command - Investigations, Bowraville, and Phoebe’s Fall.” Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 19.3/4 Special Issue on Investigating True Crime & The Media. Ed. B. Henderson (2022): 14-20.

Pâquet, L. & A.V. Luyn. “‘Things living in the cyber-universe’: Facilitating peer workshopping in the online creative non-fiction classroom.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 19.4(2022): 391-407.

Pâquet, L. “Seeking Justice Elsewhere: Informal and Formal Justice in the True Crime Podcasts Trace and The Teacher’s Pet.” Crime, Media, Culture 17.3 (2021): 421-437.

Pâquet, L. “A Rhetoric of Walking and Reading: Immersion in Environmental Literature.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 50.4 (2020): 268-282.

Pâquet, L. “Putting the cult in cultivate: A Rhetoric of Guerrilla Gardening in Green Valentine.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 24.2 (2020): 185-198.

Pâquet, L. “Gamified Identification: Gamification and Identification in Indigenous Australian Interactive Documentaries.” Computers and Composition, 56 (2020): 102571.

Pâquet, L. “Selfie-Help: The Multimodal Appeal of Instagram Poetry.” Journal of Popular Culture 52.2 (2019): 296-314.

Pâquet, L. “Web-serials: How Online Self-Published Authors Circumvent the Publishing Industry.” TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 23.1 (2019).

Pâquet, L. “The #Rhetoric of Waleed Aly’s “Send Forgiveness Viral”: Is Rogerian Argumentation an Appropriate Response to Racism?” Argumentation and Advocacy 55.2 (2019): 152-168.

Pâquet, L. “Disabling the Mainstream: Disability and Coming-Out in Anne Holt.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 13.2 (2019): 195-211. doi: 10.3828/jlcds.2018.45.

Pâquet, L. “The Corporeal Female Body in Literary Rape-Revenge: Shame, Violence, and Scriptotherapy.” Australian Feminist Studies 33.97 (2018): 384-399.

Pâquet, L. “Literary Forensic Rhetoric: Maps, Emotional Assent, and Rhetorical Space in Serial and Making a Murderer.” Law and Humanities 12.1 (2018): 71-92.

Pâquet, L. “Kathy Reichs’s Contiki Crime: Investigating Global Feminisms.” Clues: A Journal of Detection 33.1 (2015): 51-61.

Other

Pâquet, L. “The Ghosts of Crooks Park.” Remnant: An Anthology of Microlit, ed. C. Atherton. Spineless Wonders (forthcoming).

Pâquet, L. “Bop: Stop Popping Bluebottles!” Archipelago (forthcoming).

Pâquet, L. “An Artist’s Impression of My Morning.” Play: An Anthology of Microlit, ed. C. Atherton, 53. Spineless Wonders (2023).

Pâquet, L. “Scholars in a Time of COVID.” Rabbit 34: Reportage (2022).

Pâquet, L. “Can victim-survivors of violent crimes find justice through true crime podcasts?” 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, 2021 Blogathon, 27 November, 2021: https://16daysblogathon.blog/2021/11/27/day-three-can-victim-survivors-of-violent-crimes-find-justice-through-true-crime-podcasts/

Pâquet, L. “The Annual Show, March 2021.” Australian Poetry Anthology 9, ed. L. Dougan & M. Cahill, 61. Australian Poetry (2021).

Pâquet, L. “Two Weeks.” The Incompleteness Book II: Writing Back & Thinking Forward, ed. J. Prendergast, E. Herbert-Goodall, and J. Webb, 53. Recent Work Press (2021).

Pâquet, L. “From crime fighters to crime writers – a new batch of female authors brings stories that are closer to home.” The Conversation, 23 September, 2019: https://theconversation.com/from-crime-fighters-to-crime-writers-a-new-batch-of-female-authors-brings-stories-that-are-closer-to-home-123770

Clinical Skills and Experience

Memberships

Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)

Popular Culture Association (PCA)

Consultancy Interests

Community and Advocacy Organisation Collaborations

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Further Information