Adelle is senior Fulbright scholar and lectures in Literary Studies at CDU. She is the discipline chair of the Humanities and an executive member for the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association. Adelle's research focuses on prison arts education and the cultural contributions system-impacted creatives make to society. Adelle is co-founding editor of NT literary journal 'Borderlands Magazine' and winner of the NT Literary Awards Essay Prize. She publishes in high quality international journals and her debut book is titled 'Polities and Poetics: race relations and reconciliation in Australian literature'.