The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Philip Mead

Chair of Australian Literature
English and Cultural Studies

Contact details

Address

English and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia (M202)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2434

Fax

6488 1030

Email

philip.mead@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BA A.N.U., MA La Trobe, PhD DipEd Melb.

Biography

Philip Mead is Winthrop Professor and inaugural Chair of Australian Literature, and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. In 2009-2010 Philip was Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Visiting Chair of Interdisciplinary Australian Studies, at the Free University, Berlin. Philip has received and led nationally competitive research grants including the ALTC funded project, ‘Australian Literature Teaching Survey’ (2009) and the ARC Discovery Project grant for 2010-2012, ‘Monumental Shakespeares: an investigation of transcultural commemoration in 20th-century Australia and England' with Gordon McMullan (King's College London). He is on the advisory board of the ARC LIEF funded AustLIt consortium. In 2009 his book Networked Language: History & Culture in Australian Poetry (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009) was shortlisted for the Association for Australian Literature’s Walter McRae Russell Award, and in 2010 it won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Scholarship.

Key research

Australian literary and cultural history

Anglophone poetry and poetics

transnational poetics

Shakespearean institutions in Australia

Literary education

Digital humanities

Publications

Select Recent Publications:

Books
Teaching Australian Literature: from Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings. Ed. with Brenton Doecke and Larissa McLean Davies. Adelaide: AATE/Wakefield, 2011.
Networked Language: Culture & History in Australian Poetry. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009 (2nd ed. 2010).

Book Chapters
“What we have to work with: teaching Australian literature in the contemporary context.” Brenton Doecke, Larissa McLean Davies and Philip Mead, eds Teaching Australian Literature: from Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings. Adelaide: AATE/Wakefield, 2011. 52-69.
“Hoax-Poetry and Inauthenticity.” Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, eds The Routledge Critical Companion to Experimental Literature. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011.
“Unsettling Language: π.ο.’s 24 Hours.” Stephen Matterson and Lucy Collins, eds Aberration in Modern and Contemporary Poetry. North Carolina: McFarland, 2011.
“A Place in Stories: a report on the Literature of Tasmania subset of the AustLit database.” With Tony Stagg. Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon, eds Resourceful Reading: the New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture. Sydney: Sydney UP, 2009. 315-24.
“How Poetry Became Posthuman: John Tranter’s Different Hands.” Rod Mengham, ed. The Salt Companion to John Tranter. Cambridge (UK): Salt Publishing, 2010. 158-96.
“Literature, Nation, Region.” Peter Pierce, ed. The Cambridge History of Australian Literature. Port Melbourne: Cambridge UP, 2009. 549-67.
“1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: the Ern Malley Hoax.” Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson, eds The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 113-25..
“The American Model II.” Romana Huk, ed. Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan UP, 2003. 169-91.

Journal Articles
“Veronica Brady’s Biography of Judith Wright.” AustLit Anthology of Australian Criticism, 2010. http://www.austlit.edu.au/anthology
“Death and Home-work: The Origins of Narrative in the Fortunes of Richard Mahony” AustLit Anthology of Australian Criticism, 2010. http://www.austlit.edu.au/anthology“
A History of the Book in Australia.” Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 9 (2009): 1-10. http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/9.R10/1780
“Antologias en mundo googlizado (Australia).” [“Anthologies in a Googled World.”] Nerter. Una revista dedicada a la Literatura, el Arte y el Conocimiento. 10 (Invierno 2006-2007): 71-76. http://webpages.ull.es/users/mbrito/NERTERWEBPAGES/nerter-10.html
“Two Fires: Poetry and Local Government.” Overland 182 (Autumn 2006): 30-35.
“An Early David Campbell Poem” Southerly 62.1 (2002): 134-6.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Chair, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Committee
Chair, Regional Ethics Review Committee (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts)
Research Integrity Advisor
Editorial Advisory Board, Australian Literary Studies
Editorial Advisory Board, Cultural Studies Review
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Funding received

ARC DP1094143 'Monumental Shakespeare: a transcultural investigation of commemoration in 20th-century England and Australia' (2010-2012, $214,000)

UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award, 'Australian Literary Futures', (2011, $20,000)

ARC LIEF LE110100198 'Digital Humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - AustLit phase 4' (2011, $600,000)

Memberships

Association of the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
Institute for World Literature
American Association for Australian Literary Studies (AAALS)
Modern Languages Association of North America (MLA)
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ)

Previous positions

Lockie Fellow in Creative Writing and Australian Literature, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor in English, University of Tasmania

Useful links

http://www.westerlycentre.uwa.edu.au/
http://www.english.arts.uwa.edu.au/about/staff/mead

Research profile

Research profile and publications