British-born, Canadian-raised, Australian academic Victoria lives and works on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Land alongside the Great Barrier Reef at James Cook University in Far North Queensland.  
Trained at UBC, U of A, and UQ, she possesses a world-class research background in postcolonial literary studies and a teaching background in ESL, composition, and liberal arts that informs her pedagogical approach to teaching as story-telling and her passion for equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education.
Chair of the ACHRC Humanities in the Regions Community of Practice and co-editor of JASAL The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Victoria is the author of two academic monographs [Unsettling Stories (Cambridge Scholars Press 2010) and, with Susan Liebich and Sarah Galletly, The Transported Imagination (Cambria 2017)], in addition to over 40 academic articles.
She is currently working on her first long-form manuscript, a memoir about grief, displacement, and being lost.  "The Wilds" [working title] is a record of coming to terms and a chronicle coming home to oneself.  

This is Victoria’s second residency at ‘all that we are’.