Helen Sword is a New Zealand academic, specialising in modernist poetry and academic writing, and is an emeritus professor at the
University of Auckland. She was elected as a Fellow of the
Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2023.
Academic career
Sword grew up in southern California. She gained an MA at
Indiana University in 1986. After completing a
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* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
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Princeton University on comparative literature in 1991, Sword taught for ten years in the English department of Indiana University. She moved to the University of Auckland in 2001, rising to full professor.'
Sword has published several books on academic writing. When Sword's 2017 book ''Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write'', Professor
Inger Mewburn
Inger Mewburn (born 1970) is a Professor and Director of Research Training at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She has published on academic identity, writing, and digital scholarship. She is known as "The Thesis Whisperer ...
, said "Helen Sword is, hands down, one of the best writers on academic writing working today. The difference between Sword and other people working the writing advice patch is that she uses an interesting range of research approaches to inform her work. A new book from Sword is a nerdishly exciting moment for research educators like me and always an automatic buy."
In 2023 Sword was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. The society described Sword as "a world-leading expert on academic writing across the disciplines. As an international authority on modernist poetry, she has published books and articles that have expanded our understanding of the contradictory cultural and aesthetic forces at work in the poetry of twentieth-century authors including Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, H.D. and Rilke. ... Her ground-breaking scholarship on academic writing has been praised by her peers for its rigorous evidence base and its skilful integration of theory and practice."
Selected works
* in ''Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor'', editors Sandy Farquhar, Esther Fitzpatrick. Springer Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6114-2
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References
External links
Official website
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New Zealand women academics
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Indiana University alumni
Princeton University alumni
People from California
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people