Postgraduate News
New journal — Humanity
Following on from the Humanities HDR conference in February 2007 called “The Power of Perception,” organized by students from Macquarie University and the University of Newcastle, there is now an online journal, Humanity. This represents an exciting new step in Higher Degree Research training and support, which we hope we can develop further in the coming years (Marea Mitchell, Director HDR).
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/humanity/
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Geoff Payne, PhD.
Congratulations to Geoff Payne for 'Dark Imaginings: Ideology and Darkness in the Poetry of Lord Byron'. The book
is a revised version of his doctoral thesis completed this year, and will be published by Peter Lang AG (Oxford, UK) in December.
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers, PhD.
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers' thesis 'The Self as Shield and Sword: The Ambiguous
Speaker and Novelistic Impulse in the Petrarchan Sonnet Sequence' will be published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2008.
Young Fiction Award
Congratulations to Ursula Dubosarsky for winning the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards in Young Adult Book category for her novel The Red Shoe, and for winning the Young Fiction Award in the 2006 Premier's Literary Awards for her book Theodora's Gift. Ursula recently completed her creative PhD, and The Red Shoe is a part of her thesis.
Michelle Hamadache , PhD
Congratulations to Michelle Hamadache, creative PhD candidate for her paper, "Intimate Morphologies: Return to Algiers",
in Island No 106, 2006;
and to Claire Alberts, MA Creative Writing and Susan Wardle, Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing
for their forthcoming publications in
Island and Overland, 2008.
Nikki Thompson, MA in Creative Writing
Congratulations to Nikki Thompson for her work The
Bear Seeker, which was short listed in the Senior Section of the Children's
Book Council of NSW 'Frustrated Writers Mentoring Competion'. This is a
tough competition according to the highly acclaimed children's book
writer Libby Gleeson. The Bear Seeker was submitted as part of
Nikki's thesis for the MA in Creative Writing in 2006. For more
information go to http://www.cbc.org.au/nsw/
Emma Simone, PhD
Emma Simone commenced her PhD in English in 2007, after finishing her Honours Degree in 2006. For the Honours unit Writing Creative Non Fiction, Emma wrote a paper on shared parenting, now published in the online journal 'onlineopinion.com'.
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