Dr Marcelle Freiman
Monkey's Wedding
Dr Marcelle Freiman
Position: Senior Lecturer in English
Contact Details
Office: W6A 623
Phone: 61-2-9850 6892
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: marcelle.freiman@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA (Wits), MA (Macquarie), PhD (Macquarie)
Profile
Marcelle Freiman focuses on creative writing and post-colonial writing and theory, including the literatures of diaspora.
She also has a special research interest in the South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, and in issues of writing and politics, South African writing and writing of the Holocaust. She also has close interests in poetry and in Australian migrant writing.
Her research in the theory of creative writing pedagogy is published in a number of articles. Her work on diaspora has a special focus on memory and history. She has published articles and book chapters that include Australian writers such as Peter Skrzynecki, Fay Zwicky, Arnold Zable, Lily Brett, Mark Baker and Alex Skovron.
Marcelle is also a published poet. Her book of poetry Monkey's Wedding was published in 1995 and was highly commended for the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award. She has poetry and prose published in journals and magazines in Australia and the UK, and her poems have been read on radio and at live readings.
She teaches two undergraduate units in Creative Writing, both of which are offered to external and distance students as online teaching. She also teaches post-colonial literatures and film, an Honours unit on diaspora literatures, and in 2009 offers a new postgraduate MA literature corsework unit 'Literature of Migration', with an online component.
In 2008 Marcelle Freiman was awarded The Macquarie University Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
Selected publications
Publications: Creative work: poetry; articles on theory of Creative Writing, writing and migration, J. M. Coetzee, Australian diaspora writers, contemporary Australian women's writing, and poetry.
Books
Monkey's Wedding , Island Press, 1995 .
White Lines (Vertical) (under construction) .
Book Chapters
‘Post-colonial Creativity and Creative Writing', Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice, Brady & Krauth, QLD, Post Pressed, 2006.
'Fay Zwicky', Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 323: Australian Literature 1975-2000 , Ed S. Samuels,. Buccoli Clark Layman, US, 2006
'Peter Skryznecki', Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 289: Australian Writers, 1950-1975, Ed. S. Samuels, Thomson Gale , US , 2004.
Articles
'What do students learn when they do Creative Writing?
http://creative.canberra.edu.au/aawp/conference_proceedings.html
'Crossing the Boundaries of the Discipline: A Post-Colonial Approach to Teaching Creative Writing in the University', TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , Vol 5, No 2, 2001.
http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct01/freiman.htm
'Learning Through Dialogue: Teaching and assessing creative writing online', TEXT: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , Vol 6, No 2, 2002.
http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct02/freiman.htm
Dangerous Dreaming
http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct03/freiman.htm
'Writing/Reading : Renegotiating criticism', TEXT: The Journal of
the Australian Association of Writing Programs , Vol 9 No 1, 2005.
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april05/freiman.htm
'J.M. Coetzee's allegory of writing in Life and Times of Michael K ', TEXT: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , Vol 10, No 1, 2006.
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april06/freiman.htm
‘Migration and Poetry', Five Bells , Vol 13, No 4, Spring 2006.
'Journey as genre: the search for home and history in Arnold Zable's Jewels and Ashes ", Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Sixteenth Annual Conference Proceedings , Canberra , ASAL & ADFA, 1995.
Poetry
In journals including Blast, Blue Dog, The Bulletin, Five Bells, Hobo, Kunapipi, Matrix, Melbourne Chronicle, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2006 , Southerly, Stand Magazine, Westerly, Wet Ink.
Selected Reviews
Goddess of Mercy by S. K. Kelen, Jacket 27, April 2005. http://jacketmagazine.com/27/frei-kelen.html
Infinite City by Alex Skovron, Australian Jewish News , July 1999.
'Conversing with Defoe: J. M. Coetzee's Foe,' CRNLE Reviews Journal 2, 1993.
'Parents and Children: Restoring a Damaged Past', Lily Brett Things Could Be Worse and What God Wants, CRNLE Reviews Journal , 2, 1992.
'Moving Between Worlds', Fay Zwicky Ask Me and Lee Cataldi The Women who Live on the Ground: Poems 1978-1988 , CRNLE Reviews Journal , 1, 1990.
Teaching
ENGL218 Creative Writing 1
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/ENGL218
ENGL 273 Literature of Migration
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/ENGL273
To be offered in 2009 as a Postgraduate coursework init in an amended form for the MA English Literature programme.
ENGL319 Creative Writing II
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/ENGL319
Administration
National Executive Member, Association of Australian Writing Programs (AAWP)
Divisional Learning and Teaching Committee
University Assessment policy Working Party Committee
Deputy Director of the Bachelor of Creative Arts