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Professor Graeme Harper

 

Professor Harper is a Creative Writing member of Great Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Panel, AHRC Peer College and AHRC National Steering Committee on Practice-led Research. A former member of EU Commission's Culture and Education Directorate 'Panel of Experts', he holds doctorates in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is an elected Committee Member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSAWAW)

He is a Fellow of the RSA, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal Geographical Society. Director of the ICCWR and Co-Director of the ECRF Research Forums, he also directs creativeuniversities.com, researchinnovation.co.uk, ARTeFACT, The Institute for Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities (IRLAH), the Creative Industries Research and Development Group (CIRDG), Cultural Geography.Org, and Creative Lab. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Editor of the new Journal of European Culture, Co-Editor (with Dr Owen Evans) of the journal Studies in European Cinema,and Associate Editor (with Prof Simon Roodhouse, Ed., & Debi Hayes, Associate Ed.) of the Creative Industries Journal. A member of the Creative Writing Subject Association, the National Association of Writers in Education. He was elected Chair of its Higher Education Committee (2008 - ), and is also a member of its general National Committee.

Some Recent Publications

 

• A Philosophy of Creative Text - MLM;
• Camera Phone - 2009;
• Sound in Film and the Visual Media: A Critical Guide - Continuum, 2009;
• The Creative Writing Guidebook - Continuum, 2008;
• Moondance (novel) - (Parlor, 2008);
• Creative Writing Studies: Research, Practice, Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters), with Jeri Kroll, 2008;
• 'Sea of Stories' in Maggie Butt (ed), Story: the Heart of the Matter (2007);
• The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (Columbia University Press/Wallflower, 2007) edited with Dr Rob Stone;

• 'Explication in Creative Writing Research', Journal of Management and Organisation, I.II, 2006;

• ‘Creative Writing Doctorates’ in Steven Earnshaw (ed) Creative Writing Book (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)

• ‘Writing Research Practice: A History in the UK’ in Heather Beck (ed), Palgrave Writing Book Palgrave, 2006);

• ‘Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey,’ in Merritt Moseley (ed), Booker Prize Winners (Broccoli Clark), 2006;

• Small Maps of the World ( fiction) - (Parlor, 2006);

• ‘Form and Style ’ and ‘Making Fiction from Fact’ in Jayne Steel (ed), Wordsmithery, Palgrave, 2006;

• Teaching Creative Writing (Continuum, 2006);

• ‘Creative Writing: the Reason that is, the Rhyme that isn’t’ in The Authority Project: Creative Writing in the 21st Century, ed. Anna Leahy, (MLM), 2005;

•  ‘DVD: New Reading in Technologies’ in Post-Cinema, Nicholas Rombes (ed), Edinburgh University Press, 2005;

• ‘Twin Share Accommodation: Creative Writing and English’ in The Condition of English, ed. Philip Martin, (Palgrave), 2005;

• Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine (Columbia University Press/Wallflower) co-editor, with A.Moor, 2005;

• ‘They’re a Weird Mob: Powell and Pressburger’s Cinema Beyond Europe’ in Powell and Pressburger, I.Christie and A.Moor (eds), BFI, 2005.

• Series Editor: New Writing Viewpoints Series in Creative Writing (Multilingual Matters ), 2006 –;
• Series Editor: The Critical and Creative Writing series (Palgrave), 2006 –;

* His current work includes: new fiction, including his new novel and a collection of short stories; international work on the practice and theory of Creative Writing; continued work on Creative Writing knowledge; critical understanding in Creative Writing; the ARTeFACT of Creative Writing practice; continued involvement in film/media and cultural criticism, with new work on Edgar G. Ulmer and David Puttnam, the evolution and style of Arts Festivals; digital texts and digital culture; film and media sound; film and landscape (including the forthcoming Cinema and Landscape, co-edited with Jonathan Rayner); film and geography (co-edited with Owen Evans).

Selected Previous Publications:

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• ‘The Disappearing Father,’ Dalhousie Review, 3, 2004;

• ‘Roxana’s Waiter’, BBC, BBC Talent, May – December, 2004;

• ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses: an Inside-Out and Upside-Down View of Performance in Wales’, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 24.3, 2004;

• Special Guest Editor (with N.Ros), Studies in Theatre and Performance, 24.3, 2004;

•  ‘One Man’s Store’, Snake Nation (USA), 2004;

• Theodore Edward Hook’ in DNB: New Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press 2004);

• ‘State of Grace: Writing in British Academe, 1993-2003?’ TEXT, September 2003;

• ‘”They’re a Weird Mob”: European Cinema Beyond Europe’, Spectator, University of Southern California, Spring-Summer, 2003;

•  ‘Heloise Finds A Mammoth’ in Arts & Letters (USA), 2003;

•  ‘What is a Postgraduate Degree in Creative Writing?’ English Subject Centre Best Practice Guide, ESC, 2003; also reprinted in English Subject Centre Newsletter and English Subject Centre Best Practice electronic guide, 2003;

• ‘Duck Soup’, in Floating Islands, anthology, UNESCO Publishers, S. Bassnett & S.Stephanidis (editors), 2002;

• ‘John Banville’ in Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Writers Since 1960, 6000 word entry on Banville, (Broccoli Clark Layman 2002);

• Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism (Continuum, 2002), ed.;

• ‘Surf, Sand and Sisters: Drive-In Movies Across the Pacific’ in Drive In Movies, Gary Rhodes (ed), MacFarland 2002;

• ‘Herman’s Heart’, Danforth Review, Canada, September 2002, short story;

• ‘Writers on Campus in the UK and USA: Historical and Cultural Differences’, Writing in Education, Spring Issue, 2002;

• ‘The Nature of New Media,’ International Journal of Cultural Studies, March 2002;

• ‘Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age’ and ‘Technospaces’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2002.

• ‘Enfranchising the Child: Picture Books, Primacy and Discourse’, Style, Volume 35, Number 3, Fall 2001;

• Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration (Continuum, 2001), ed.;

• Swallowing Film: Short Film Fiction (Q, 2000), editor and contributor, with Richard Attenborough, Peter Carey & Hanif Kureishi . . . .;

• Cult Film and Its Critics (FAB, 2000), co-ed with X.Mendik;

• ‘Christine Brooke-Rose’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Writers Since 1960, 6000 word entry on Brooke-Rose (Broccoli Clark Layman 2000);

• ‘Raising Film Avid: Technology and the Film Teen’ CineAction, January 2000;

• ‘The Vampires,’ in New Writing 9, Vintage/Random House, February 2000;

• ‘Pets’, TimeOut Neonlit, TimeOut, February 2000;

• ‘Film and the Cultifying Response’, The Nunc Sumus Journal, Vol.1, No.2, 2000;

•  ‘Jane Gardam’ in Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Writers Since 1960, 6000 word entry on Gardam, (Broccoli Clark Layman 2000);

• Black Cat, Green Field (Transworld), novel;

• ‘Pets’, Dalhousie Review, Canada (July 1999);

• The Marketeer, Embryo Films, 1999, film script;

• ‘1969’, Drafts, 1999, novel extract;

• Shoeless, David O Films, 1999, film script;

• ‘DVD: the End of Video’, Sight and Sound, July 1999;

• Creative Writing and Higher Education, 230min film (writer, producer and director), CCPA, featuring Sir Malcolm Bradbury, David Edgar and others, 1998;

• Treatments, scripts for numerous films for Supervision Films in the corporate, factual/doco area including: Besco, Style, 1987 – 1996;

• The Wedding, Supervision Films, treatments, scripts 1987;

• ‘Bad Moon Rising’, The Australian (July 1993);

• ‘Black Cat’ in Kate Grenville (ed), The Writing Book: A Manual for Fiction Writers, Allen and Unwin, 1991;

• ‘Samuel Beckett: a micro-story’ in Microstories A&R, 1990;

• All in Favour, Salamanca Script Resource Centre, 1989 --, radio play

• All in Favour, Manning Radio, 1989, radio play;

• ‘Eris and My Mother’, Southerly, 1988.