Affiliates

Visiting Research Fellows/Visiting Professor

Honorary Visiting Research Fellows occasionally:

• attend the Discipline's Friday afternoon seminars
• give presentations at the Discipline's Friday afternoon seminars
• mentor PhD students (via email, in a set number of hours over a set period of time)
• examine Masters theses and mark Grad Dip assignments
• give seminars to and/or teach Masters/Grad Dip/Hons students
• co-supervise (in about a 20% capacity) PhD students

Dr Anne Bartlett was enrolled in the inaugural Graduate Diploma (Creative Writing) at the University in 1997, and completed a Masters degree in 1998. From 1999-2000, as a direct result of networking through the university, she worked on commissions for State Aboriginal Affairs, publishing The Chairman: The Story of Garnett Ian Wilson in 2004. In 2001 she began the novel Knitting as the creative work for a PhD, working under the supervision of Susan Hosking, and a mentorship with Nicholas Jose. Knitting was accepted for publication by Houghton Mifflin (USA), Penguin (UK) and Penguin (Australia) before the PhD was completed. She edited Heart of Stone, the autobiography of Vietnamese author Hoa Van Stone (2007, self-published).  She is presently working on another novel. Knitting was longlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin award. Anne is on the Board of the SA Writers' Centre in 2006-07. She launched the second issue of Etchings in Adelaide at the 2007 Fringe Festival. She is part of the Sa Writers'Festival in September in 2007.

Ken Bolton is a poet, art critic, editor and publisher. His poetry publications include Selected Poems: 1975-1990 (Pengin Australia) and 'Untimely Meditations' & Other Poems (Wakefield Press). He completed a PhD in Creative Writing in 2003, and an enlarged version of his thesis was published as At The Flash & At The Baci by Wakefield Press in 2006. He was editor of Otis Rush. He currently organises the Lee Marvin series of readings.

Professor J. M. Coetzee has published nine novels and numerous essays and scholarly works. He has twice won the Booker Prize, with Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Disgrace (1999). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Professor Coetzee received an honorary doctorate from the University in March 2006 for his contribution to literature.

Dr Moya Costello is a writer, teacher and editor. Her books are two collections of short fiction, Kites in Jakarta (Sea Cruise Books, Sydney, 1985) and Small Ecstasies (University of Queensland Press, 1994), and a novel The Office as a Boat: a Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, 2000). Her short prose has been published in major Australian literary anthologies, in journals (Meanjin, Heat), and on ABC Radio National (Shorts on tape). Her work has been used as an exemplar of practice in Hazel Smith's textbook The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing. She has read/performed her work at many venues.

Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy is a freelance writer and researcher. She has published literary criticism, short fiction (North of the Moonlight Sonata), and is a prolific reviewer. She has taught creative writing and literary studies at Adelaide, Melbourne and Deakin universities.

Dr Eva Hornung (previously writing as Eva Sallis) has published literary criticism, three novels and a collection of short stories. Her first novel, Hiam, won the 1997 Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999. Her most recent novel is Dog Boy (Text, 2009). Her research fields include Arab literature and culture.

Professor Nicholas Jose was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Adelaide from 2005 to 2008. He has published seven novels, including The Custodians (1996), The Red Thread (2000) and, most recently, Original Face (2005). His memoir, Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year 2003 Non-fiction. He is General Editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, and he has been appointed to the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 2009.

Jane Rogers, Professor of Writing, Sheffield Hallam University. Professor Rogers was at the University of Adelaide in semester 2 2007. Jane Rogers is the author of several novels, including Separate Tracks (1983); Her Living Image (1984), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Ice is Singing (1987); Mr Wroe's Virgins (1991); and Promised Lands (1995), winner of the Writers' Guild Award (Best Fiction), a story set in New South Wales at the end of the eighteenth century. Her latest work of fiction is The Voyage Home (2004), which centres on Anne Harrington, a young woman who on a voyage to Africa to bury her dead father, begins a new relationship with a ship's officer, becomes entangled with two illegal immigrants and uncovers disturbing revelations about her father's early life. Jane Rogers is editor of Oxford University Press's Good Fiction Guide, published in 2001. She also writes for television and radio. Her work for television includes Dawn and the Candidate (1989) for Channel 4, winner of a Samuel Beckett Television Award; and a BAFTA-nominated television adaptation of her novel Mr Wroe's Virgins (1993), directed by Danny Boyle. Her work for radio includes adaptations of work by Thomas Hardy, E. M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady and Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, all for BBC Radio 4.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Hazel Rowley was brought up in England and Australia, lives in New York City. She moved to Paris to write Tête-à-Tête: The Tumultous Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Harper Collins, New York, in 2005. Richard Wright: The Life and Times, published by Henry Holt in August 2001, was written while Rowley was affiliated with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Studies at Harvard.  Christina Stead: A Biography was published by Heinemann, Australia, in 1993, where it won the 1993 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Hazel Rowley's essays have twice appeared in The Best Australian Essays (see her essay "Mockingbird Country" on Harper Lee, published in 1999). 

Marina Warner is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of female myths and symbols.

Dr Wendy Wright has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. She is active in literary translation (Japanese to English) and is an author in her own right. She is a much sought-after speaker on issues relating to Japanese literature and culture.

External Mentorships

Mentorships with professional writers are available on a competitive basis for Creative Writing PhD students who have completed a first draft of their major creative work. In the past mentors have included Australian and overseas writers such as Eric Rolls, Don Anderson, Brian Matthews and Rachel Seiffert.

Students who earn a mentorship will work with their mentor, usually via email, for three months. The mentor will read the student’s draft manuscript and provide a detailed report, outlining strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript and indicating areas that he or she considers could be developed in one way or another, or areas that need pruning. The mentor will read the full manuscript once in the course of the mentorship. Following the report, the mentor and student will discuss the report and begin a dialogue by email on progress from this point. The mentor can expect to read sections that the candidate has reworked or new pieces of work arising out of the response to the report. The candidate is expected to conduct his or her correspondence with the mentor in a professional manner. The mentor will replace the candidate’s supervisor for the Major Creative Work (not the critical or exegetical essay) for the duration of the mentorship.