Associate Professor Michele Grossman has taught and researched at VU since 1990.  She is currently Associate Dean, Research and Research Training, in the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, and Associate Professor in the School of Communication and the Arts.

Michele was also a Senior Research Associate with VU's Institute for Community, Ethnicity and Policy Alternatives (ICEPA) and served as Acting Director of the Office for Postgraduate Research in 2007-8.

Associate Professor Grossman's research interests and track record focuses strongly on community-engaged cross-cultural research in two main areas - Indigenous Australian writing, representation and culture, and the settlement experience of transnational refugee diasporas in Australia and abroad (particularly for African-background refugees).

Associate Professor Grossman actively supervises PhD and Masters research students in the areas of literature, creative arts and refugee and diaspora studies. She was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Peak Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2003.