Dr Elizabeth MacFarlane
Lecturer, Creative Writing
Biography
Elizabeth MacFarlane completed her BA with Honours at Deakin University in 2003, and her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne in 2007. She has been teaching Creative Writing in various capacities since 2004, and joined the School of Culture and Communication creative writing staff in 2009. Her short stories and critical articles have been published in various Australian journals, and her creative doctorate on the novels of J. M. Coetzee was nominated for the Chancellor's Prize for excellence in the PhD thesis.
Teaching
106-478 Theory for Writing
106-235 Creative Nonfiction
106-249 Diaries and Journals
Coordinator of the Master of Creative Writing (by coursework and minor thesis)
Co-coordinator of the Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing
Research student supervisions
Ronald Scott, PhD, Creative Writing
Brigid McCarthy, MCA, Creative Writing
Research Interests
Embodiment and creativity, the ethics of creative writing, the critical-creative nexus,
J. M. Coetzee and the middle voice, Said’s concept of Late Style: literature against the grain, Nature and science writing, contemporary graphic fiction (comics, graphic novels, and true stories), the history of Australian graphic fiction, memoir and autobiography, teaching creative writing.
Recent Publications and Presentations
2007 Panellist at The Writer and the Academy: A symposium on the critical-creative nexus, University of Melbourne.
Summer 2006 Short story ‘Her Man and She,’ in New Antigone, Vol. 1, No. 1-2.
2006 'A Curse on Literature!: A discussion of the eighth lesson of J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello,' in refereed journal Traffic: an interdisciplinary postgraduate journal, No. 8 ‘An Open Mind’.
2006 Panellist at School of Graduate Research Workshop for New Supervisors on ‘Sharing and reflecting on good practice in postgraduate supervision.’
2006 Short story ‘The nature of it,’ in Muse: UMPA’s annual creative writing prize anthology.
2003 Short story ‘The Dictionary’, in Space: New Writing, Vol. 1.