Gillian Dooley

Author / musician

Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Associate Professor in English literature at Flinders University, South Australia. She enjoys researching links between music and literature and bringing them to life in performance. Her interests over 30 years have included novelists Jane Austen, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, and J.M. Coetzee, and maritime explorer Matthew Flinders, and she has published widely on their work. Her book She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music was published in March 2024.