Dr Lyn Gallacher | Bio
PROFESSIONAL
1995-present—Australian Broadcasting Corporation—Radio National
2015-present
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
1987-1995
Christian Television Association
Producer & Presenter
1986
Cato College
Drama Teacher
RECENT AWARDS
Goethe-Institut Language Scholarship 2013
Travelling scholarship to study German in Berlin
Harold White Fellow 2012—National Library of Australia
The Nancy Keesing Correspondence
European Union Qantas Journalist Award 2010
National Press Club The Art of Being Europe
CAL Award 2008—Grant worth $150,000
Australian Literary Classics—10 half hour radio programs
Bundanon Artist in Residence
Australia Council Award for New Writing (x2)
Creative Fellow State Library of Victoria
HQ Short Story Fellowship
Varuna Writer’s Fellowship (x2)
United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards
Finalist Best Radio—2003
New York Festivals Finalist (Best Radio)—2002 & 2012
SELECTED WORKS—RADIO | PRINT | PODIUM
Harold White Fellow Presentation National Library of Australia
The Naked Book—21 Nov 2012
Inaugural RMIT Annual Lecture EU Centre
The Art of Being Europe—14 April 2011
The Weekend Australian Dec 26-27 2009 Firing the Canon—pp 16-17
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
The National College of Ireland19th International James Joyce Symposium,
Reading Finnegans Wake as a Guide to Life—June 2004
EDUCATION
PhD Geography—University of Melbourne
PhD Literature—La Trobe University
MA Literature—La Trobe University
BA Hons—Deakin University
Grad Dip Film & TV—Swinburne University
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.