Elizabeth MacFarlane is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her subject Graphic Narratives, initiated in 2011, was the first Australian tertiary unit devoted to the comics medium. Her ARC Linkage Project ‘Contemporary Australian Comics 1980-2020: A New History’ is at foliocomics.com, and on Instagram @foliocomics. In 2021, she led ‘Graphic Storytellers at Work’ a commissioned report for the Australia Council that details the cross-industry working practices of Australian comic artists. She publishes graphic novels with Twelve Panels Press, and co-directed the Comic Art Workshop from 2015-2019.