Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby AM FAHA
elizabeth.webby@sydney.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD (Sydney)
Year Elected to the Academy: 1997
Discipline: Cultural & Communication Studies, English
Expertise: Australian Literature and Book History

Elizabeth Webby was Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney from 1990 until her retirement in March 2007. Her publications include Early Australian Poetry (1982), Colonial Voices (1989), Modern Australian Plays (1990), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2000) and, as joint editor, Happy Endings (1987), Goodbye to Romance (1989), The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads (1993), Australian Feminism: A Companion (1998) and the Academy Edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s Robbery
Under Arms (2006). She has also published numerous book chapters, articles and reviews and been a contributing editor of The Penguin New Literary History of Australia (1988) and A Feminist Companion to Literature in English (1990). From 1988-1999 she was editor of Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary quarterly, first published in 1939. She is a member of the editorial boards of two major online projects: the Australian Poetry Library
and Design and Art of Australia Online and of several Australian and international journals. From 1999-2004 she was a judge of the Miles Franklin Award and from 1992-96 and 2005-07 chair of the judging panel for the Nita B Kibble Literary Awards for Australian women’s life writing.