Adelle lectures in literature & communication in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society. She coordinates the Bachelor of Arts and supervises postgraduate projects in literature and creative writing. Adelle is particularly interested in how art and literature address global problems like mass incarceration, and her research examines prison writng alongside prison education programs in Australia and the US. Adelle is one of the founding editors of the new NT literary journal 'Borderlands Magazine'. She is winner of the NT Literary Awards Essay Prize and publishes in high quality international journals such as ‘Hypatia’ and 'Text'. Adelle is currently the president of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA).