Dr Lyn Gallacher | Bio
Professional
2025-present
Literary Specialist & Charming Presence—Atticus Bookshop Gallery, Foster
2015-present
Producer—Squawk Studios
1995-2024—Australian Broadcasting Corporation—Radio National
2023-present
Features Producer—The History Listen
2015-2023
Features Producer—Earshot and The History Listen
2010-2014
Features Producer—Hindsight, Poetica, 360 Documentaries, Into The Music
2008-2010
Executive Producer—Artworks
2007
Features Producer—Street Stories
2006
Producer & Acting Presenter—The Book Show
2005
Presenter—Book Talk / Lingua Franca
2003-2005
Producer—Social History Features—inc Hindsight, Street Stories, Verbatim
2002
Features Producer—Encounter
2001
Presenter—Religion Report
2000
Producer—Arts Today
1999
Current affairs AM, PM, The World Today
Publications
2023
Gallacher, L (Ed. Vannini, P.) 2023
Bigsy vs the Mice: Tiny Airports Flying in the Face of a Compromised Fate
Mobilities in Remote Places, Routledge, p. 71-85
2022
Gallacher, L. (Eds. Lindgren, M., & Loviglio, J.) 2022
Radio Features Dead or Alive?
The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Routledge, p. 237-246
Gallacher, L. 2022
Going to the Gallows: A Sonic Biography
TEXT 26 (Special 66): p 1-13. Published on-line 30 June 2022, p. 237-246
2020
Gallacher, L. 2020
The backstory—
The Open Space 22 (for Chris Mann): p. 11-17
2017
Gallacher, L. 2017
The Eternal Present: The Untold and Short Cuts series, BBC Radio 4
RadioDoc Review, 3(1), Published on-line 20 July 2017
2007
Maconie, R.; Gallacher, L. 2007
The Eternal Present: The Untold and Short Cuts series, BBC Radio 4
RadioDoc Review, 3(1), Published on-line 20 July 2017
2006
Gallacher, L. 2006
Casting the spell: magic in books
The La Trobe Journal, (78), p. 71-85
1995
Gallacher, L. (Eds Griffith, M., & Tulip, J.) 1995
Enough Said—Chris Mann and the Kabbalah
Religion Literature and the Arts Project: Conference Proceedings, p. 163-169
Gallacher, L. 1995
The Possibility of Anticommunication: An Email Interview with Herbert Brun
Context: Journal of Music Research, n. 10, p. 27–32
1994
Gallacher, L. (Ed. Nicholas Zurbrugg) 1994
Of course: a grammatical tech check
Electronic arts in Australia, Continuum, v. 8, n. 1, p. 180–191
Awards
2022
Postgraduate Writing-up Award
The Albert Shimmins Fund
Shortlist for Oral History Award
Victorian Community History Awards
2018
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne
2016
Mary O’Brien Silver Wings Award
Australian Women’s Pilots Association
2013
Goethe-Institut Language Scholarship
Travelling scholarship to study German in Berlin
2012
Harold White Fellow—National Library of Australia
The Nancy Keesing Correspondence
2010
European Union Qantas Journalist Award 2010—National Press Club
The Art of Being Europe
Australia Council Award for New Writing
2008
CAL Award—Grant worth $150,000
Australian Literary Classics—10 half hour radio programs
2007
Bundanon Artist in Residence
Australia Council Award for New Writing
2005
Creative Fellowship—State Library of Victoria
2004
HQ Short Story Fellowship
Varuna Writer’s Fellowship
2003
United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards
Finalist Best Radio
2002+2012
New York Festivals Finalist (Best Radio)
2000
Varuna Writer’s Fellowship
Selected Radio Features
2023
Friedrich the fraud— radio feature, The History Listen
Gold: Part 1 | The human cost of mining in Australia— radio feature, The History Listen
Asbestos: Part 3 | The human cost of mining in Australia— radio feature, The History Listen
2022
Impostors: If it lives, we want it— radio feature, The History Listen
The confidence men— radio feature, The History Listen
2017
Tiny airports in trouble— radio feature, Law Report
Selected Print | Podium
2012
Harold White Fellow Presentation National Library of Australia
The Naked Book—21 Nov 2012
2011
Inaugural RMIT Annual Lecture EU Centre—The Art of Being Europe—14 April 2011
2009
The Weekend Australian Dec 26-27 2009—Firing the Canon—pp 16-17
2006
La Trobe Journal # 78, State Library of Victoria—Casting the Spell—pp 71-85
Victorian Performing Arts Centre Spotlight Series—The Magic of Will Alma—Nov 2006
2004
The National College of Ireland—19th International James Joyce Symposium
Reading Finnegans Wake as a Guide to Life—June 2004
Education
2023
PhD Geography—University of Melbourne
1997
PhD Literature—La Trobe University
1994
MA Literature—La Trobe University
1990
Grad Dip Film & TV—Swinburne University
1986
BA Hons—Deakin University
1983
ACTL—Trinity College London
Other
Judge for the Prime Ministers Literary Awards 2009-2012
Judge for Art Monthly Emerging Writers Award
Chair of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Judge of Varuna Fellowship
Co-Creator of the Australian Literature Compendium website
Presenter at Writer’s Festivals
Participant in Carbon Tender Project for reforesting South Gippsland.