Rose Albiston is currently working as a research assistant on the La Trobe ABC grant scheme project 'The Public Past: Literary Prizes and Australian Historical Fictions'. She is an English and Theatre Studies PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and her research is supported by the Shakespeare 400 PhD Scholarship. Her work focuses on depictions of death in different genres across late-medieval and early modern England.

She has previously worked in academic publishing and ran workshops on book markets in the University of Melbourne’s Master of Publishing and Communication.