Faculty of Arts School of Culture & Communication

Assoc Prof Kevin Brophy

Head of Creative Writing

Qualifications

BA Melb, Dip Ed Melb, Grad Dip (Psych) Phil Inst, MA (English) Melb, PhD (English) Melb

Biography

Associate Professor Kevin Brophy is a poet and novelist. He has had ten books published. From 1980 to 1994 Kevin Brophy edited the small press literary journal Going Down Swinging. His poems and essays have been anthologised in Best Australian Poems 2004, 2006 (Black Inc.), The Road South (Five islands, 2007), New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Five Islands 2001), Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family (Oxford 1999), My Secret Life (Melbourne Festival of Poetry 1999), Daughters and Fathers (UQP 1997) and other publications. His book, Creativity, was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Nonfiction Literary Award. Kevin Brophy is a regular reviewer for Reading Time, the journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and contributes Book Notes for the Council of Adult Education book Reading Groups. He has been awarded Australia Council for the Arts writers grants in 1974, 1986 and 2005. He has been awarded Arts Victoria project grants in 1996 and 2003.

Knowledge transfer

Kevin Brophy is:

Kevin has conducted workshops, panels, and given readings at local schools, at the Victorian Writers Centre, the Melbourne Writers Festival, and at poetry venues in Melbourne and Canberra over the past two years.

Teaching

Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.

Research student supervisions

Christine Balint PHD Creative Writing completed
Steven Conte PHD Creative Writing completed
Dan Disney MCA Creative Writing completed
Paul Mitchell MCA Creative Arts completed
Sean McMullen PHD Creative writing current
Helen Milte Bastow PHD Creative writing current
Arnold Zable PHD Creative writing completed
David Carlin PHD Creative Writing current
Rosemary Helen Michael PHD Creative Writing current
Lucy Alice Butler PHD Creative Writing current
Elizabeth MacFarlane PHD Creative Writing current
Dan Disney PHD Creative Writing current
Ben D Goldsworthy PHD Creative writing current
Miriam Alison Sved PHD Creative Writing current
Abigail Ulman MCA Creative Writing current
Christina Natsis PHD Creative Writing current
Anna Krien MCA Creative Writing current
Ross Donlon MCA Creative Writing current
Ashley Hibbert MCA Creative Writing/Theatre Studies current
Beth Cardier PHD Creative Writing / Information Systems current
Tara Mokhtari PHD Creative Writing/Theatre Studies current

Publications

Books

Recent publications

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