We are seeking a Level E Professor to enrich and advance our program in Creative Writing. The appointee will have expertise and significant publications in areas of Creative Writing practice and scholarship that complement and enhance our Program.
Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne teaches a major in the Bachelor of Arts, with subjects focused on writing various genres, including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting and writing for performance.
Our successful graduate coursework degree, the Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing, also offers cross-genre subjects on key issues in contemporary writing practice and the literary landscape.
The program also supervises a large cohort of outstanding PhD and Masters by research students. Our academics produce creative and critical research, which is rated at world standard, and they engage with the community through participation in festivals and events, judging of awards, and partnerships with publishers and cultural institutions.
Creative Writing staff are active in publishing in their areas of expertise and are successful in attracting research funding, including Australian Research Council Linkage grants, University and Faculty funding as well as collaborating to develop grants with colleagues across the globe.
We aim to continue to develop these strengths, particularly in the areas of:
Poetry and poetics;
Contemporary Australian writing;
Australian Indigenous writing;
Popular Genre Fiction;
Young Adult Fiction/Children’s writing;
Comics and graphic novels;
Serial storytelling including TV writing and Podcast writing;
Ecofictions: Writing and the environment;
Writing and disability;
New directions in creative nonfiction;
Writing for performance and New Media.
(Job no: 0047719)
Further details and to apply here
Deadline: 30 April 2019, 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time