Associate Professor Adelle Sefton-Rowston is the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Arts & Society. She Lectures in Literary Studies and supervises HDR projects in the areas of creative research. Her debut book, Polities and Poetics: race relations and reconciliation in Australian literature is published by international publisher Peter Lang (2021). Sefton-Rowston writes extensively on prison arts and education, delivering international talks, such as TedX, on how transformative stories shape culture and systems. Sefton-Rowston is a Senior Fulbright Scholar (2022); a Bard Prison Initiative Resident New York (2023); UniSA Visiting Research Fellow (2024); Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing Visiting Fellow (2025); and Incarceration Nation's Network Global Freedom Consultancy Particpant (2026). She offers consultation on justice reform and prison program curriculum design through her Y Write initiative: https://www.cdu.edu.au/arts-society/research/y-write. 

A/Prof Sefton-Rowston is an experienced leader in higher education, chairing the humanities discipline and coordinating the Bachelor of Arts for several years. In her role as Associate Dean Research she overseas HDR supervision and research culture within the Faculty, improving quality and process improvements through technological uplifts and compliance measures. She is an executive committee member of several literary organisations, including treasurer of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) and NT representative for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE). She is co-chief investigator on ARC Discovery 2025 project 'Re-mapping Darwin as a Literary Capitial'.