Peta Stephenson completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Melbourne and accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Australian Centre there. Her thesis explores crosscultural artistic and theatrical production by indigeneous and Asian-Australians. She has also worked on a project charting Islamicisation, making use of oral history interviews with Aboriginal Muslims. Her work has been published in Hecate, Australian Studies, Journal of the Association of Australian Literature (JASAL) and Mot Pluriels.