Graeme Harper is a creative writer and academic, who writes under his own name and under the pseudonym Brooke Biaz. He received the inaugural New Writers Banjo Award in 1988, for his novel ''Black Cat, Green Field''.

Education and academic career

In 1993, Harper received the degree of Doctor of Creative Arts, specialising in creative writing, at the

University of Technology, Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although its origins are said to trace back to the 1830s, the university was founded in its current form in 1988. As of 2021 ...

. This was the first doctorate in creative writing conferred in Australia He finished his PhD at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

in 1996. He is the Dean of The Honors College at

Oakland University Oakland University is a public research university in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson, it was initially known as Michigan State University-Oakland, operating under the Mi ...

in Michigan, USA, a founding institution in US

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. There he also directs the Mid-West Center for Undergraduate Research (MCUR). He is chair of the At-Large Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. and Director of the National Society for Minorities in Honors He was the founding director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at

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, and the founding chair of the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the

University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is a public university in Portsmouth, England. It is one of only four universities in the South East England, South East of England rated as Gold in the Government's Teaching Excellence Framework. With approximately 28 ...

. From 2003 to 2015 he was a panelist and assessor at Great Britain's

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(AHRC), and he is a former member (1998-2001) of the European Commission's

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Panel of Experts (DGX) He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in 2005 and is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal ''New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing'', and Editor of the ''Creative Industries Journal.''. He is Co-Editor (with O. Evans) of ''Studies in European Cinema'' and (with O. Evans and C. Johnston) of the ''Journal of European Popular Culture''Evans, O. Johnston, Cristina and Harper, Graeme. ''Journal of European Popular Culture''. Intellect Ltd.

Publications

Fiction

* 1988: ''Black Cat, Green Field'' * 2000: ''Swallowing Film'' * 2005: ''Small Maps of the World'' * 2008: ''Moon Dance'' * 2009: ''Camera Phone'' * 2013: ''Making Up'' * 2015: ''The Invention of Dying'' * 2018: ''The Japanese Cook'' * 2022: ''Releasing the Animals''

Non-Fiction

* 2001: ''Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration'' * 2002: ''Comedy Fantasy and Colonialism'' * 2005: ''Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema'' (With Andrew Moor) * 2006: ''Teaching Creative Writing'' * 2006: ''The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film'' (With Rob Stone) * 2008: ''Creative Writing Guidebook'' * 2009: ''Authors at Work: the Creative Environment (Essays and Studies)'' (With Ceri Sullivan) * 2009: ''Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview'' (With Section Editors, Ruth Doughty and Jochen Eisentraut) * 2010: ''On Creative Writing'' * 2011: ''Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography'' (With J. Rayner) * 2011: ''Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy'' (With Jeri Kroll) * 2012: ''Key Issues in Creative Writing'' (With Dianne Donnelly) * 2012: ''Research Methods in Creative Writing'' (With Jeri Kroll) * 2013: ''Film Landscapes: Design, Discovery and Communication'' (With J. Rayner)'' * 2013: ''New Ideas on the Writing Arts: Practice, Culture, Literature'' * 2013: ''The Blackwell Companion to Creative Writing'' * 2014: ''The Future for Creative Writing'' * 2015: ''Creative Writing and Education'' * 2016: ''Exploring Creative Writing'' * 2017: ''Changing Creative Writing in America'' * 2017: ''Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs'' (With D. Forrest and J. Rayner) * 2018: ''Critical Approaches to Creative Writing'' * 2018: ''Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Honors Education'' * 2019: ''Honors Education: Excellence, Innovation, Ingenuity'' * 2019: ''The Desire to Write'' * 2019: ''Thinking Creative Writing'' * 2020: ''Creative Writing: Drafting, Revising, Editing'' (With Jeri Kroll) * 2020: ''Discovering Creative Writing'' * 2020: ''Responding to Creative Writing'' * 2021: ''Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness: A Question of Equity'' * 2022: ''Honors Education Around the World''

References

External links

Official website
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