Graeme Harper (writer)

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Graeme Harper is a creative writer and academic, who writes under his own name and under the pseudonym Brooke Biaz.[1][2] He received the inaugural New Writers Banjo Award in 1988, for his novel Black Cat, Green Field.

Education and academic career[edit]

In 1993, Harper received the degree of Doctor of Creative Arts, specialising in creative writing, at the University of Technology, Sydney. This was the first doctorate in creative writing conferred in Australia [3] He finished his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1996.[4]

He is the Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University in Michigan, USA, a founding institution in US Honors colleges and programs. There he also directs the Mid-West Center for Undergraduate Research (MCUR).[4] He is chair of the At-Large Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research.[5] and Director of the National Society for Minorities in Honors [6]

He was the founding director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at Bangor University, and the founding chair of the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth.

From 2003 to 2015 he was a panelist and assessor at Great Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and he is a former member (1998-2001) of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture Panel of Experts (DGX)

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in 2005 and is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), the Royal Anthropological Institute,[7] and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).

He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing,[8] and Editor of the Creative Industries Journal..[9] He is Co-Editor (with O. Evans) of Studies in European Cinema[10] and (with O. Evans and C. Johnston) of the Journal of European Popular Culture[11]

Publications[edit]

Fiction[edit]

  • 1988: Black Cat, Green Field ISBN 9780947189143
  • 2000: Swallowing Film ISBN 0953534413
  • 2005: Small Maps of the World ISBN 9781932559569
  • 2008: Moon Dance ISBN 9781602350434
  • 2009: Camera Phone ISBN 9781602351622
  • 2013: Making Up ISBN 9781443844628
  • 2015: The Invention of Dying ISBN 9781602355392
  • 2018: The Japanese Cook ISBN 9781602355828
  • 2022: Releasing the Animals ISBN 9781643173092

Non-Fiction[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Arnold, John; John A. Hay; Sally Batten (2001). The Bibliography of Australian Literature. Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press. p. 353. ISBN 9780702235009.
  2. ^ "The Writers of Wales Database". Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Arts Council of Wales. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. ^ Krauth, Nigel (2011), Evolution of the exegesis: the radical trajectory of the creative writing doctorate in Australia, Australia: AAWP
  4. ^ a b "The Honors College". www.oakland.edu. Oakland University.
  5. ^ "Council on Undergraduate Research".
  6. ^ "National Society for Minorities in Honors".
  7. ^ "Royal Anthropological Institute".
  8. ^ Harper, Graeme. New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Routledge.
  9. ^ "Intellect Ltd". www.intellectbooks.co.uk.
  10. ^ Evans, O. and Harper, Graeme. Studies in European Cinema. Taylor and Francis Ltd.
  11. ^ Evans, O. Johnston, Cristina and Harper, Graeme. Journal of European Popular Culture. Intellect Ltd.

External links[edit]

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