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
Professor Kevin Brophy is a poet and novelist. He has had eleven books published. From 1980 to 1994 he edited the small press literary journal Going Down Swinging. His poems and essays have been anthologised in Best Australian Poems 2004, 2006, 2007 and Best Australian Essays 2009 (Black Inc.), the MacQuarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (Allen & Unwin 2009) 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 in 1999. Kevin Brophy is a regular reviewer for Reading Time, the journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and has contributds Book Notes for the Council of Adult Education Reading Groups. He has been awarded Australia Council for the Arts grants in 1974, 1986 and 2005. He has been awarded Arts Victoria project grants in 1996 and 2003. His latest publication is Patterns of Creativity (Rodopi Press 2009).
Knowledge transfer
Kevin Brophy is
- Member of Board of Management for literary journal, 'Going Down Swinging'
- a life member of the Victorian Writers' Centre
- patron of the Melbourne Poets Union
- member of the Melbourne Poets Union Trust Account Committee
- poetry judge for the Daylesford 'Words in Winter' competition 2005-8
- occasional public lecturer for the Existentialist Society
- referee for Review Americana, TEXT, New Writing
- member of the judging panel for theMelbourne Moving Galleries 2007-9
- member of the national committee of the AAWP 2001-7
- member of the Five Islands press management group
- member of the Hit & Miss Publishing Co-operative
- judge for Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2004-8
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, Castlemaine, Benalla and Canberra over the past two years.
Teaching
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Teaching
106-105 Creative Writing: ideas and Practice (selected lectures)
106-237 Poetry
106-202 Short Fiction
106-303 Reading Australian Writers
106-479 Extreme Poetry
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 |
| Arnold Zable | PHD | Creative writing | completed |
| David Carlin | 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 |
| Ashley Hibbert | MCA | Creative Writing/Theatre Studies | current |
| Beth Cardier | PHD | Creative Writing / Information Systems | current |
| Anna Krien | MCA | Creative Writing | completed |
| Romy Ash | MCA | Creative Writing | completed |
| Emily Bitto | PHD | Creative Writing | current |
| Amy Brown | PHD | Creative Writing | current |
| Linda Weste | PHD | Creative Writing | current |
| Amy Espeseth | PHD | Creative Writing | current |
| Tom Doig | MA | Creative Writing | current |
| Greg Taylor | MA | Creative Writing | current |
Publications
Books
- Mr Wittgenstein's Lion (Five Islands Press, 2007)
- What Men and Women Do (Flat Chat Press, 2006)
- Explorations in Creative Writing (Melbourne University Publishing, 2003)
- Portrait in Skin (Five Islands Press, 2002)
- Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing (Melbourne University Press, 1998)
- Seeing Things (Five Islands Press, 1997)
- Replies to the Questionnaire on Love (Five Islands, 1992)
- The Hole through the Centre of the World (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
- Visions (Angus & Robertson, 1989)
- Getting Away With It (Wildgrass, 1982)
Recent publications
- 'Writing PhD's: Integrational linguistics and a new poetics for the PhD', TEXT vol. 11, No. 1, April 2007 (http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/)
- 'How to read a poem', TEXT vol. 11, No. 1, April 2007 (http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/)
- Three poems in Blast, issue no. 4, 2006
- "Peculiarities and Monstrosities: Consciousness, Neuro-Science and Poetry" in Creativ e Writing: theory Beyond Practice (editors: Nigel Krauth & Tess Brady) Teneriffe: Post Pressed, 2006
- "Repulsion and Day-Dreaming: Freud writing Freud" in New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing (forthcoming)
- "The Dead" in Agenda vol. 41 n. 1-2
- ''Man-Moth' and the flame of influence: a poet reading poetry' in Westerly vol. 49, November 2004.