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Assistant Professor Of Writing

A teaching and research position exists in one of Australia’s long established writing programs.

An opportunity to teach into an established Bachelor of Writing degree and postgraduate coursework offerings in writing and editing, with strong creative writing and literary studies streams. Closing Date: 7 May 2014.

The Faculty of Arts and Design supports research into writing, including Early Career Researchers, through its Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. All Writing Program academic staff are also creative practitioners engaged in diverse writing activities. This is an opportunity to work alongside a strong cohort of Higher Degree Research students.

For more information on this position please contact, Associate Professor Paul Hetherington on (02) 6201 2996.

Download position description here. For more information on this position and how to apply please, go to http://www.canberra.edu.au/hr/jobs

‘Creative Manoeuvres’ Papers Now Available

The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being papers – the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2013 – are now available under the publications tab.

For the first time, in addition to the academic stream, creative papers have been included in the proceedings. These represent ‘a surprising and diverse body of works that shows dexterity in relation to what creative writing is, and can be,’ according to Shane Strange and Kay Rozynski in their editorial introduction. However, all delegates address ‘the multiform ways that writing and writers make and understand through creative and academic practice’.

Strange and Rozynski also assert that ‘[t]he emphasis on movement, on ‘manoeuvring’, is an important one in a space that has at times valued practice as an object rather than as a movement of making, doing, thinking and being’. They add that what became clear in reviewing the nearly fifty papers presented is that ‘thinking about writing and its place in the world (and the university) is bearing the fruit of broad, interdisciplinary endeavour – which has always been the promise of the translation of creative practice into the academy.’ Thus, these proceedings ‘are evidence that in 2013 there was good reason to be excited about writing as a mode of knowledge, practice and research’.