Erica Cervini is an award-winning education journalist who currently writes for Eureka Street. In 2019, she was awarded a PhD. Her thesis examined. Until recently, she taught media writing at the University of Melbourne, and she has also taught life writing at the Australian Catholic University. The Australian Historical Association has awarded Erica three prizes for her work. In 2024, her forum article, ‘“Wayward”, “immoral” and “evil”: dispelling myths about Brookside Reformatory girls’, was published in Provenance: the Journal of Public Record Office Victoria. She participated in a PROV podcast about that article.
Author email: ecervini@bigpond.com
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