Professor Maryanne Dever

Professor Maryanne Dever is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President (Education) at Western Sydney University. She is a member of the Senior Executive Group and responsible for providing leadership of the University’s education portfolio.

She is passionate about educational renewal and ensuring learning delivers for a new generation of students. She is recognised for her work in transformation and change with a particular focus on digital uplift to support learning and the student experience.

Professor Dever leads strategic educational innovation at Western Sydney to deliver the University’s commitment to ensuring its students fulfill their potential to become influential global citizen-scholars in a technology-enabled world.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Queensland and a Master of Arts (Hons) and PhD from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining Western Sydney University in late 2023, she worked at a number of universities, including The Australian National University where she introduced a new learning and teaching strategy and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where she made major contributions to the digital transformation of learning.

Professor Dever's research career has focused on feminist literary studies and critical archival studies. Her book publications include Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page (2019) and the co-authored monograph,  The Intimate Archive (2010). She has also published nine edited collections including New Feminist Research Ethics (2023) and Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research (2018) which won a Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists. 

She was co-editor of the journal Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) from 2015-2024.