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Dean Harper

Dean Graeme Harper
Office: 112 E Vandenburgh Hall
Phone: 248-370-4450 E-mail: gharper@oakland.edu
Personal Web Page: http://www.graemeharper.com

Fields
Creative Writing
Film Studies
Technology and Communications
Literary Studies
Medical Humanities

Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy – University of East Anglia
Doctor of Creative Arts - University of Technology, Sydney
Master of Letters - University of New England
Bachelor of Arts - University of Sydney
PGCertES – Bangor University

Research Interests
Creative Writing
Critical Understanding in Creative Writing
New Technologies
Film Studies
Medical Humanities
The Anthropology of Creativity
Cultural Studies and the Creative Industries

Books (Selected):
The Blackwell Companion to Creative Writing, (Wiley-Blackwell, in press, 2013)
The Invention of Dying, as Brooke Biaz, (Parlor, in press, 2013)
Teaching Creative Writing in Schools, e-book (SkillsMentors Creative, in press, 2013)
Making Up: Research in Creative Writing, (Cambridge SP, in press, 2013)
Film Landscapes: Cinema, Environment and Visual Culture, with Jonathan Rayner (Cambridge SP, in press, 2013)
Research Methods in Creative Writing, with Jeri Kroll (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012)
Key Issues in Creative Writing, with Dianne Donnelly (MLM, 2012)
Inside Creative Writing (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)
The Bookstores of Panapoon, as Brooke Biaz, (CIP, 2011)
On Creative Writing (MLM, 2010)
Visit the Communion Islands, as Brooke Biaz, (CIP, 2010)
Authors at Work: the Creative Environment, with C.Sullivan, (Boydell-Brewer, 2009)
Moon Dance, as Brooke Biaz, (Parlor, 2009)
Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography, with J.R.Rayner  (University of Chicago/Intellect, 2008)
Creative Writing Studies, with J.Kroll (Continuum, 2008)
The Creative Writing Guidebook (Continuum, 2007)
Sound and Music in Film and the Visual Media, with R.Doughty & J.Eisentraut (Continuum, 2007)
Teaching Creative Writing (Continuum, 2006)
The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism in the Cinema, with R.Stone (Columbia University Press/Wallflower, 2006)
Small Maps of the World, as Brooke Biaz (Parlor 2006)
Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine, with A Moor (Columbia University Press/Wallflower, 2005)
Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism (Continuum, 2002)
Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration (Continuum, 2001)
Black Cat, Green Field (Doubleday)

- Films, New Media, Performances (selected): Digital Projectorings 1- 12 (public art project, 2010-2011); My Life as a Mouse (Kindle book; text by Millicent Hope-Crest, 2011); Virtual Clay, Electric Glass (documentary film, with J.Cofield & S.Meyer & John Perrault, 2010); Seasons (choral work, with E.Wright, 2009); Collaboration Laboratory (Interactive Video Progam); Visiting Japan (wiki-novel, 2004); Dancing on the Moon (DVD: Interative, 2003); Clay (Web Project, 2002); Shoeless (Film, 2000); Creative Writing in Higher Education (film, 1999).

- Book Series Editor: New Writing Viewpoints (Multilingual Matters), Approaches to Writing (Palgrave-Macmillan)  

Journal Editing/Editorial Boards: Editor-in-Chief: New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (www.newwriting.org.uk),  the Creative Industries Journal (Associate Editors: Kyle Edwards & D. Hayes);  Co-EditorStudies in European Cinema (with O.Evans), Journal of European Popular Culture (with C.Johnston & O.Evans) - www.intellectbooks.com ;   Editorial BoardAxon, Writing Commons, Bukker Tillibul Arts Journal, Write4Children, Touchpaper (with L.Browne), Journal of Recorded Research.

Biography
Before arriving at Oakland, Graeme worked in Texas, Alabama, the United Kingdom and Australia and was a member of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, from 2003, and of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which deals with technological developments for some 18 million academic users. A former member of the European Commission’s Culture and Education Panel of Experts, and of assessment committees for Media+, the Literary Arts Council of England (South) and others, he is a Fellow of such organizations as the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He completed the first doctorate in Creative Writing in Australia, and was the inaugural Chair of the Higher Education Committee at the UK’s National Association of Writers in Education. Director of Collaboration Lab and the ICCWR and former director of Digital Humanities (UK), he is co-director of the European Cinema Research Forum (with O.Evans), and pleased also to be a member of the AWP, the Design Research Society and the National Collegiate Honors Council.

To date, he has published around 20 books and over 120 articles and chapters and his awards include the Australian National Book Council Award (for New Fiction) and the Premier’s Award, among others, and scholarships and fellowships from the ORS, The British Academy, AHRC, BBC, Emory University and the University of Texas Medical Branch.

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