Professor Kim Wilkins
Retired Fellow
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Professor Kim Wilkins
Deputy Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland
k.wilkins@uq.edu.au
Kim Wilkins is a recognised expert on storytelling, popular literature, and the publishing industry. She is the author of more than 30 full-length works of fiction, and her work is translated into more than 20 languages. Her scholarly research centres on creative communities, such as writing groups and fan cultures. She is most recently the author of Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture (with Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher), which outlines a new theory for understanding popular fiction through its related industrial, social, and textual pleasures and processes.
Kim is also passionate about working with partners and has recently undertaken funded research on technology foresight with the Commonwealth Department of Defence, and with a series of regional councils for the Linkage Project 'Community Publishing in Regional Australia'. Since 2019, she has served a range of leadership roles, including in the HASS Office of the ADR, and the UQ Graduate School. She is Academic Director of the newly established Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing.
Research Interests: Creative practice; Popular fiction; Publishing and book culture; Storytelling, creativity, and the imagination.
Academic Books- Genre worlds: popular fiction and twenty-first-century book culture. Wilkins, Kim, Driscoll, Beth and Fletcher, Lisa (2022). Genre worlds: popular fiction and twenty-first-century book culture. Amherst, MA United States: University of Massachusetts Press.
- Writing bestsellers: love, money, and creative practice. Wilkins, Kim and Bennett, Lisa (2021). Writing bestsellers: love, money, and creative practice. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108663724
- Young adult fantasy fiction: conventions, originality, reproducibility. Wilkins, Kim (2019). Young adult fantasy fiction: conventions, originality, reproducibility. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108551137
- Headstrong girl: how to live a writer's life. Wilkins, Kim (2021). Headstrong girl: how to live a writer's life. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Brain Jar Press.
- Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction. Rayner, Samantha and Wilkins, Kim eds. (2021). Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press. doi: 10.14324/111.9781787357600
- Project Ursula speculative fiction techniques for technology foresight: facilitator handbook. Marshall, Helen, Wilkins, Kim, Bennett, Lisa, Anderton, Joanne and Ivanova, Ksenia (2023). Project Ursula speculative fiction techniques for technology foresight: facilitator handbook. Brisbane, QLD Australia: What If Lab; The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/c6a0989
- The Ursula Project: Conceptual Framework. Marshall, Helen , Wilkins, Kim , Bennett, Lisa and Anderton, Joanne (2023). The Ursula Project: Conceptual Framework. Brisbane, Australia: The What If Lab, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/9a5e903
- Web 3.0 technology impacts and future scenarios. Anderton, Joanne, Ivanova, Ksenia, Marshall, Helen, Wilkins, Kim, Bennett, Lisa and Scott, Haley (2023). Web 3.0 technology impacts and future scenarios. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Human and Decision Sciences Division, Defence Science Technology Group.
> 30 book chapters and journal papers.
Grants and funded projects:- Community Publishing in Regional Australia (ARC Linkage Project administered by The University of Melbourne). (2023–2025) University of Melbourne.
Supervision:- The Ursula Project: Speculative Fiction techniques for technology foresight. (2022) Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
- Defence Innovation Bridge. (2020–2021) The Defence Innovation Bridge Program
- Genre worlds: Australian popular fiction in the 21st century. (2016–2019) ARC Discovery Projects
- The AustLit Resource: supporting research in studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures.
- (2013–2014) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
- Humanities in the digital age: infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. (2012–2013) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
- Digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - Austlit phase 4. (2011–2012) ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
- Reimagining female agency in Australian popular medievalism. (2009) UQ Early Career Researcher
- Medievalism in Australian popular fiction. (2008–2009) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
- 9 current PhD and 1 current MPhil supervisions;
- 27 completed MPhil and PhD supervisions
ORCID: 0000-0001-7783-8248
Scopus ID: 56099936800
