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A/Prof. Patrick West

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Associate Professor of Writing and Literature

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Comm & Creative Arts

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, 1995

Biography

I am a researcher, educator, creative writer, project collaborator and public intellectual.

My PhD from the University of Melbourne (1995) elaborated on the work of Julia Kristeva and I have a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) from Edith Cowan University (1999).

I took up an ongoing position at Griffith University in 2000, where I also completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (2001). In 1997, I worked for one year at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.

In 2009 I came to Deakin University.

I conduct research within and across traditional and non-traditional domains and I have a special interest in debates concerning the PhD of the Future.

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Biography summary

Researcher

Educator

Creative Writer

Project Collaborator

Public Intellectual

Research interests

Architecture

Creative Writing

Place

Practice-Led Research

Affiliations

The Institute of Postcolonial Studies

Australasian Corrections Education Association (ACEA)

Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)

Australian Society of Authors (ASA) (Full Member)

Literature and its Readers Discipline Research Cluster

Creative Writing Discipline Research Cluster

HOME Research Hub

Deakin Motion Lab (People and Objects)

Teaching interests

Creative Writing

Scriptwriting

Research Communication

Higher Degree Research Supervision

Knowledge areas

Creative Writing

Scriptwriting

The Short Story

Place and Space

Architecture

Practice-Led Research

The Future of the PhD

Expertise

Practice-Led Research; Creative Writing; Literature
  • Literature
  • Literature & creative writing

Research groups

Literature and its Readers Discipline Research Cluster

Creative Writing Discipline Research Cluster

HOME Research Hub

Deakin Motion Lab (People and Objects)

Publications

No publications found

Funded Projects at Deakin

Other Public Sector Funding

Dancing Between Two Worlds. Citizenship, Well-being and Place: Diasporic Indian Creativity and Australian Identity

Dr Shaun McLeod, A/Prof Patrick West, Dr Simon Wilmot

Wyndham Community Cultural Foundation Limited

  • 2019: $5,000

Dancing Between Two Worlds

Dr Shaun McLeod, Dr Gretel Taylor, A/Prof Patrick West, Mrs Anindita Banerjee

Multicultural Festivals and Events Program

  • 2019: $1,540

Supervisions

Principal Supervisor
2020

Monika Schott

Thesis entitled: A New Understanding Of Abject Communities Through Sewerage Ghost Towns

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2019

Rebecca Carver

Thesis entitled: The Influence of Adversity on the Narrative Construction of Identity

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Cathryn Louise Perazzo

Thesis entitled: Surface Tension: Writing Politics and the Politics of Writing

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2017

Liam Guilar

Thesis entitled: Anhaga: An exploration in poetry of narrative, memory and identity

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2015

Janice McClennan

Thesis entitled: Creative and literary responses to australian middle-class experiences of financial upheaval

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Valerie Jeremijenko

Thesis entitled: A Sibling Romance: The Sound of Romance Reimagined

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Executive Supervisor
2020

Bryan Ott

Thesis entitled: They Sound Human: Crafting Post-Feminist Women in Contemporary Western/Horror

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2019

Joshua Mark Baird

Thesis entitled: The projection of the son: unreliable narration and masculinity

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Elvis Richardson

Thesis entitled: Identity and recognition in the collecting based practices of Elvis Richardson

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Co-supervisor
2020

Rhett Davis

Thesis entitled: Disruption and purpose in experimental fiction and digital storytelling

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Kristin Henry

Thesis entitled: Clans and Tribes: attachment networks of older Australian women

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Associate Supervisor
2023

Hayley Elliott-Ryan

Thesis entitled: What Writing Wants: Repurposing Bricolage, Waste, and Desire in Creative Practice

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2020

Simon Jeffrey Wilmot

Thesis entitled: Between Home and Away: Documentary Filmmaking as a Placemaking Practice

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2019

Robyn Fuerst

Thesis entitled: Trauma, Memory and Secrets of Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation. The Australian Context.

Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Rod Jones

Thesis entitled: Rod Jones: The Practice of Fiction

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2018

Gregory Day

Thesis entitled: The Ocean Last Night - an Exegesis & Creative Artefact

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2017

Debra Wain

Thesis entitled: Keepers of Culture: Women, Food and Writing

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2016

Angelina Mirabito

Thesis entitled: What Reading and Writing Trauma Fiction Illuminate about Post-Traumatic Growth.

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Scott Michael Pearce

Thesis entitled: Hegemonic Masculinity in Transition The Frontier Myth in Australian Westerns

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2015

Kaya Tatjana Barry

Thesis entitled: Creativity in-transit: material ideals and spatial negotiations

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

2013

Daniel Tom Baker

Thesis entitled: Exploring the fantastic: new critical frameworks in an evolving genre

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts