Rosanne Kennedy is an interdisciplinary Humanities scholar in Literary and Gender Studies at Australian National University. Working at the intersection of cultural memory studies, trauma studies, Indigenous studies, life writing, and human rights, her research explores mediations of testimony and memory in archives, trials, memoir, literature, film and visual arts in post-conflict and settler colonial contexts. She is the co-founder of the MemoryHub@ANU and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Memory Studies Association.
Her recent publications include a co-edited issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies on âFeminism, Memory, Activismâ (2025), featuring her article titled, âDecolonial Memory Activism: Grandmothers Against Removals, After the Apology, and the Indigenous Struggle for Self-determinationâ.Â
At STIAS, she is working on a collaborative project that brings together deep history, memory studies, and Indigenous knowledges to explore memories of the deep past in Australia. She has held fellowships at Duke University Law School; Cambridge University; the Max Planck Centre for Excellence, Konstanz University; Utrecht University; and the University of London. She has supervised over 25 PhD students, has won University and College awards for postgraduate supervision and undergraduate teaching, and in 2026 will take up the position of Associate Dean Higher Degree Research at Australian National University.