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| Name: |
Prof Andrew Taylor |
| Position: |
Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professor |
| School(s): |
School of Communication and Arts. |
| Res. Group: |
International Centre for Landscape and Language |
| Phone: |
(08) 9370 2970 |
| Email: |
a.taylor@ecu.edu.au |
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| Research Interests: |
Romantic and modern literature and visual art in relation to landscape.
The many versions of Pastoral.
The indigenisation of non-indigenous Australians.
An ecologically responsible literary/artistic engagement with landscape and its theory. |
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| Current Projects: |
A study of the Australian Pastoral(s) in poetry.
A new collection of poems. |
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| Previous Projects: |
See Publications; |
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| Previous Experience: |
Lockie Fellow in Creative Writing and Australian Literature, University of Melbourne, 1965-69.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, University of Buffalo, NY, USA, 1970-71.
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide, 1971-1992.
Founder, Friendly Street Poetry Readings, Adelaide, 1975.
Literature Board of the Australia Council, 1978-81. (Acting Chair, 1981).
Australia Council for the Arts, 1981.
Chair, Writers' Week, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 1982 and 1984.
Founder, South Australian Writers' Centre, 1985.
Arts Finance Advisory Committee, South Australia, 1988-91.
Foundation Professor of English at Edith Cowan University 1992-2003.
Chair, Academic Board, Edith Cowan University, 1997-2003. |
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| Publications: |
Poetry:
More than 15 books of poetry. (See complete list in Wikipedia) Since 2000:
The Unhaunting (Salt, UK, 2009).
Regret about the Wolves, and other Poems, (Picaro Press, 2006.)
Rome, (ICLL, 2005.)
Collected Poems, (Salt, UK, 2004.)
The Stone Threshold, (Arc, UK, 2001.)
Gotterdammerung Cafe, (UQO, 2001.)
Opera libretti:
Barossa (music by Ralph Middenway), 1988.
The Letters of Amalia Dietrich (music by Ralph Middeneway), 1985.
Scholarly:
Reading Australian Poetry, (UQP 1987.)
Edited:
An Alphabetical Amulet: A collection of stories and poems from Peter Cowan Writers' Centre's 2008 and 2009 competitions, (Peter Cowan Writers' Centre, 2010)
Articles:
More than sixty critical and scholarly articles. Only those since 1996 are listed below. (* indicates refereed).
"History, Fiction and National Identity." Eds. S. Nicieja & R. Wolny. Australia, Memory and Destiny. Opole, Poland, 2008.
"'To love that well': Poetry and Autopathography." Westerly, 52, 2007. *
“Writing Theory: A Personal View.” Eds. Nigel Krauth & Tess Brady. Creative Writing: Theory before Practice. Teneriffe, Q: Post Pressed.(2006) *
"Writing Rome." dotlit. Vol 5, Issue 1, March 2006. http:www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/journal/writing/index *
"The Fortunes of Dan Synergy." Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 19, 6, 2006. 946-952.
“Beyond Duality: The Development on an ‘Integrating’ Poetry of Landscape in Australia.’ Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. (2006) *
“Research as a Dialectical Activity: Writing a Long Poem in Rome”. Speculation and Innovation. (2006) (Unpaginated) * found at:
http://www.speculation2005.net/papers/TaylorA.pdf
“Constructing Emptiness: Ennio Morricone and Randolph Stow.” Culture Literature Language, Kielce, Poland, 2006. 113-123.*
“Memory/History/Rome.” Thylazine, 2006. (Unpaginated). http://www.thylazine.org/thyla11/thyla11k.html
“Creative Conservation: Marching or Paddling?” Island, 104, Autumn 2006. 12-17.
“What Do We See When We Look at the Sea? The Sea in post-Romantic American, British and Australian Writing.” Da Ulisse a…: La città e il mare. Dalla Liguria al mondo. A cura di Giorgetta Revelli. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005.. 367-377.
“An Interview with Andrew Taylor”. John Kinsella. Australian Literary Studies Vol 21 No 3 (2004). 324-336.*
“David Malouf, History, and an Ethics of the Body.” Imagining Australia. Eds, Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Harvard University, USA, 2004. 67-81.*
“Memory and Innovation: Creative Writing and the Avant-gard”. Text Vol 8 No 1 April 2004. (Unpaginated). Text@mailbox.gu.edu.au *
“Signification and Pain: A Semiotic Reading of Fibromyalgia”. John Quintner, David Buchanan, Milton Cohen & Andrew Taylor. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 24.4 2003. 345-354.*
“Dorothy Hewett: Halfway up the Mountain”. Southerly Vol 62 No 1 (2002.) 203-7.
“Creative Writing and the Research Quantum”. Text Vol 4 No 2 Oct 2000. (Unpaginated). Text@mailbox.gu.edu.au *
"The Bread of Time to Come: Body and Landscape in David Malouf's Fiction". World Literature Today (Autumn 2000). 715-723.*
"Origin, Identity and the Body in David Malouf 's Fiction". Australian Literary Studies 17.4 (May 1999). 3-14.*
"The Ghost and the Machine: Creative Writing and the Academic System". Text Vol 3 No 1, April 1999. (Unpaginated). Text@mailbox.gu.edu.au *
"An Echo not of Itself". Soundings. Eds. Jeri Kroll & Lyn Jacobs. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1998. 65-69. *
"Ou va la poesie?" La Traductiere (Paris) No 16 (Juin 1998). 39.
"Tim Winton's The Riders: A Construction of Difference." Westerly Vol 43 No 3, (Spring 1998). 99-112. *
“Foreword.” In Other Words: Interviews with Australian Poets. Ed. Barbara Williams. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. xi-xiii.
“Kenneth Slessor’s Approach to Modernism.” Kenneth Slessor: Critical Readings. Ed. Philip Mead. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997. 139-157. (Reprinted from Reading Australian Poetry.)
“The Future of the Librettist-Composer Relationship.” Sounds Australian, 15.49 (1997). 27.
“The Poetry of John Bray.” A Portrait of John Bray. Ed. W.R. Prest. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1997. 149-174.
“Welcome to You: Multiculturalism and Australian Identity.” The Literary Half-Yearly (India) 37.2 (July 1996). 71-90. *
“What Can Be Read, and What Can Only Be Seen, in Tim Winton’s Fiction.” Australian Literary Studies 17.4 (October 1996). 323-331. *
“An Interview with Tim Winton.” Australian Literary Studies 17.4 (October 1996). 373-377. *
“Littoral Erosion: The Changing Shoreline of Australian Culture.” Australian Literary Studies 17.3 (May 1996). 284-299. *
“Poetry as Possession and Dispossession.” The Space of Poetry: Australian Essays on Contemporary Poetics. Eds. Lyn McCredden & Stephanie Trigg. Melbourne: Melbourne University Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol 3, 1996. 143-153. |
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| Awards & Recognition: |
Pacific Regional Winner, Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1986.
Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 1990.
WA Premier's Prize for poetry, 1995, runner-up 2001
Australia Council Residency, BR Whiting Library, Rome, 2004.
Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) University of Melbourne 1997 |
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| Creative Practice: |
Essays, poetry and short fiction. |
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| Professional Affiliations: |
Member and former Committee of Management Member, Australian Society of Authors.
Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
British Australian Studies Asociation.
Association of Australian Writing Programs.
European Australian Studies Association.
International PEN.
Poetry Editor, Westerly (UWA) 2006-2008.
Judge, Western Australia's Premier's Book Awards, 2007.
Judge, Mary Gilmore Prize, 2010. |
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