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Centre Director Professor Jill Roe |
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| Professor Jill Roe is an authority on the life and work of Miles Franklin. She has published extensively in Australian social and cultural history, and has a particular interest in historical biography and women's history. She has served on numerous national bodies, most recently as Chair of the Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and is currently vice-president of the History Council of New South Wales. |
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Centre Co-cordinator Dr Chris Cunneen |
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| Dr Chris Cunneen is a senior research fellow in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie. He was formerly deputy general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in Canberra. His interests include Australian political and social history, and biography. From 2001 he was project manager for the Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement 1580-1980, which was published in 2005. |
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Research Assistant Dr Geoffrey Payne |
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| Geoffrey Payne lectures and tutors in Macquarie University’s English
Department. He has recently completed his doctoral research on the poetry of
Lord Byron and is preparing a series of items on that subject for
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General Editor Professor Nicholas Jose |
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| The author of seven novels to date and former President of International PEN, Sydney Center, Nicholas Jose is a practising writer, commentator and critic in the area of Australian literature. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. |
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Advisory Publishing Editor Mary Cunnane |
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| Mary Cunnane, Director of the Mary Cunnane literary agency, has held senior positions in the publishing industry in the United States of America and in Australia. From 1976 to 1996 she worked for W. W. Norton & Company in New York. She was member of the board of The Feminist Press of the City University of New York in 1994-6. After moving to Australia, in 1998-99 she was non-fiction publisher at Transworld/Random House. She served on the management committee of International PEN, Sydney Centre from 2001-05, and was vice president from 2003-05. |
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Deputy General Editor Dr David McCooey |
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| David McCooey is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University in Geelong. He has published widely on Australian autobiography, poetry and life writing. He is the author of two prize-winning books: Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography (Cambridge University Press), and Blister Pack (Salt Publishing), a collection of poems. |
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Contributing Editor Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy |
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| Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy is a freelance writer and independent scholar who has edited four anthologies of Australian writing. An essayist, critic and fiction writer, she is a former Senior Lecturer in Australian literature at the University of Melbourne, and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. |
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Contributing Editor Dr Anita Heiss |
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| Dr Anita Heiss (Wiradjuri nation) is an Associate Research Fellow with the University of Queensland and Flinders University. She has published internationally on Aboriginal literature and is also the author of poetry, children's fiction and social commentary. Anita is the author of the non-fiction text Dhuuluu Yala (talk straight): publishing Aboriginal literature. |
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Contributing Editor Peter Minter |
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| Peter Minter is Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. He was poetry editor of Meanjin from 2000-2005, and guest edited the special 'Blak Times' Indigenous Australia issue of Meanjin in 2006. He is a widely published and multi-award winning editor, reviewer and author of five volumes of poetry, most recently blue grass (Salt Publishing, Cambridge). |
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Contributing Editor Dr Nicole Moore |
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| Dr Nicole Moore is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Macquarie University. She has published widely on twentieth-century Australian literature, and is editor of the scholarly edition of Jean Devanny's 1936 novel Sugar Heaven. She is currently researching a new history of literary censorship in Australia. |
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Contributing Editor Professor Elizabeth Webby |
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| Elizabeth Webby has been researching Australian literature for forty-five years and is the author, editor or coeditor of a dozen books. For twelve years she also edited Australia's oldest literary journal, Southerly. She is currently Professor of Australian Literature and Director of the Australian Studies program at the University of Sydney. |
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Education Adviser Dr Donna Gibbs |
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| Dr Donna Gibbs is an educator whose career spans several different educational systems and sectors. She formerly held positions as Chief Education Officer (English) and Inspector of Schools at the NSW Board of Studies and as an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Macquarie University. Her publications range across a number of fields, including English literature and language, curriculum studies, technology and learning and cultural and linguistic aspects of the internet. She is currently an honorary associate at the Australian Centre for Educational Studies and an editorial advisor for the Macquarie Dictionary. |
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Education Adviser Dr Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan |
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| Dr Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Macquarie University. She has taught, researched and published widely on English curriculum, and as the Chief Examiner of the NSW Higher School Certificate English, 2001- 2006, she has led significant change in secondary English education. Her award winning doctoral research on discourses and practices of curriculum change investigated the new Stage 6 English syllabus in NSW. |