Dr Jane Messer
Provenance
Bedlam - anthology of sleepless nights
Night by Night
Plump Girls Pinched with Butter
Certifiable Truths
Dr Jane Messer
Position: Lecturer in Creative Writing
Currently on leave until July 2008.
Contact Details
Office: W6A 632
Phone: 61-2-9850 8738
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: jane.messer@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA (Macq) MA (Johns Hopkins) DCA (UTS)
Profile
Jane Messer's writing and research is principally in the broad area of narrative fiction, and her work has included publications in the genres of novel, short story, personal essay, and to a lesser extent, poetry and documentary film writing. Her non-fiction and scholarly writing significantly integrates narrative and fictional devices in its construction, and in a current project on writing Australian corporate cultures, she is intersecting ethnography with fiction writing. Another area of research focus is on the figure of the mother in literature and creative memoir, with a particular interest in Australian representations of the maternal heroine, mothering and motherhood, and the impact of feminism on this literature since the 1970s.
Selected publications
Books
Provenance , Vintage/Random House, 2007.
Night by
Night , Ringwood: McPhee Gribble/Penguin,1994.
Bedlam - anthology of sleepless nights , Selected and Edited by Jane Messer, Sydney: Allen & Unwin,1996.
Certifiable Truths- stories of love and madness , Editor and Contributor Jane Messer, Sydney: Allen & Unwin,1998.
Fiction
‘In My Bed, after Tracey Emin', poem, Of Mothers and Death: from Procreation to Creation, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, forthcoming 2008
"Mermaid of Cockatoo", Traveller's Tales: Best Stories Under the Sun 2 , eds Michael Wilding and David Myers, Rockhampton: Outback Books, 2005.
"These Withered Hands Doth Us Do Part", Certifiable Truths , ed Jane Messer, Sydney: Allen & Unwin,1998.
"Plump Girls Pinched with Butter", Women Love Sex , ed Susan
Johnson, Sydney: Random House, 1996. Also in Mississippi Review ,
Fall 2002,
http://www.mississippireview.com/2000/100100-bone-JMesser.htm
Articles
"The Making of a Man", New Writing - Journal of the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, Issue 1, Vol 1, 2004.
"The Maternal Heroine", Cultural Studies Review , Vol 11, No1, March 2005.
Book reviews and criticism have been published in Australian Book Review , Sydney Morning Herald , The Australian's Review of Books , Books and Writing (ABC Radio National) , The Independent Monthly and various other journals.‘Being Impossible', Of Mothers and Death: from Procreation to Creation, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, forthcoming 2008
Podcast
Mermaid of CockatooElla Cook is Marina. With music arranged and composed by Coralie Joyce. Sound engineers - Steven Tilley and Michelle Goldsworthy. Produced and directed by Jane Ulman. Written by Jane Messer Originally Broadcast on Airplay, ABC Radio National, Sunday 18 February and Friday 23 Febrary 2007, and first published in Best Stories Under the Sun 2 - Traveller's Tales, 2005. Download or listen to mp3
Teaching
Teaches and convenes the Master of Arts and Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing CWPG units 810, 811, 815 and 812; teaches and convenes ENGL 335; Honours unit LIT 450; supervision of Masters and PhD students working in the field of creative writing.
Administrative Roles
Convenes the MA and PG Certificate in Creative Writing Program; member of the Post Graduate Studies Committee; chair of Marketing Committee from S2, 2008.