Denise Faithfull

Denise Faithfull was born and grew up in Western Australia. She left to travel in Europe and worked in London before moving to live in California with her photographer husband. After eight years in publishing and journalism, Denise returned to Australia and settled in Sydney. She worked in journalism and as free-lance book editor before joining TAFE where she taught Film and Media Studies, Communication and HSC English and began research for a PhD.Denise's PhD thesis, completed at the...See more

Denise Faithfull was born and grew up in Western Australia. She left to travel in Europe and worked in London before moving to live in California with her photographer husband. After eight years in publishing and journalism, Denise returned to Australia and settled in Sydney. She worked in journalism and as free-lance book editor before joining TAFE where she taught Film and Media Studies, Communication and HSC English and began research for a PhD.Denise's PhD thesis, completed at the University of Sydney, explores the process of adapting literature to film and is the basis for Adaptations: A Guide to Adapting Literature to Film, published by Currency Press. She has published numerous short articles on film and literature including 'On Literary Pilgrimages' which appears in Kaleidoscope: The Colours of Katharine, a commemorative anthology honouring Katharine Susannah Prichard published by Wild Weeds Press. One of Denise's favourite activities is to go on a literary pilgrimage. She has followed the footsteps of many of the writers she most admires, including Katharine Susannah Prichard, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and is thinking about her next pilgrimage. See less