Professor Maryanne Dever

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

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, UTS, Monash University, and the University of Hong Kong. She has held fellowships at the National Library of Australia, McGill University, and UCL. 

Professor Dever's research career has focused on feminist literary studies and critical archival studies. Her most recent work has explored questions of archives and materiality in a digital age. 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.