Yves Rees

Dr Yves Rees is an award-winning writer and historian living on unceded Wurundjeri land. At present, they are a Lecturer in History at La Trobe University and co-host of Archive Fever podcast. Rees was the recipient of the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize, awarded for their essay "Reading the Mess Backwards", and was a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellow. Rees has a regular history segment on ABC Radio Melbourne and their writing has featured in the Sydney Review of Books , The Age , Archer magazine,...See more

Dr Yves Rees is an award-winning writer and historian living on unceded Wurundjeri land. At present, they are a Lecturer in History at La Trobe University and co-host of Archive Fever podcast. Rees was the recipient of the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize, awarded for their essay "Reading the Mess Backwards", and was a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellow. Rees has a regular history segment on ABC Radio Melbourne and their writing has featured in the Sydney Review of Books , The Age , Archer magazine, Guardian Australia, Overland, Meanjin, Junkee, Australian Book Review and The Conversation . Rees is trans and uses they/them pronouns. They are the co-founder of the Spilling the T transgender writing collective and volunteer with Transgender Victoria. See less