Dr Rachael White completed her D.Phil, 'The Man on the Land: Classics in Colonial Australia', under the supervision of Professor Fiona Macintosh in 2017. She researched the reception of Greek and Latin literature in colonial Australia's literary and political culture, with a particular focus on the use of classical texts in laying claim to the Australian landscape. She completed her undergraduate degrees at the University of Adelaide, and an M.St in Greek and Latin Literature at Oxford in 2013. Her M.St thesis explored classical receptions in the works of three Australian poets, Les Murray, Peter Porter, and Judith Wright. She worked at the Archive as Associate Archivist-Administrator from 2017-2018.