Quinn Eades is a Senior Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality & Diversity Studies, best known for both academic work and poetry on queer theory and experience. He is particularly known for integrating his trans-masculine perspective into both academic and personal writing.

Early life and education

After studying a BA in

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at University of Newcastle from 1993-2000, he studied

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, gaining a graduate certificate from

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 ...

in 2003 and a postgraduate diploma from

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in 2010. He did his PhD from 2011 to 2015 in

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and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

under Sue Martin at

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria an ...

, also publishing a collection of poems as a companion volume.

Career and impact

During his PhD, he founded the interdisciplinary gender, sexuality and diversity academic journal: ''Writing from Below'' in 2012, and is currently the co-managing editor. He also worked as a sessional lecturer in

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, being made a full lecturer upon being awarded his PhD in 2015 and subsequently made senior lecturer in gender, sexuality & diversity studies. It was also in 2015 that he began transitioning to be a non-binary trans masculine person at the age of 41, whilst completing a PhD thesis and having recently given birth to his youngest child. He draws significantly on this experience in both his academic writing and poetry, for example his experience of male motherhood. Alongside his academic work, he is also known for his published poetry. He employs a hybrid writing style; mixing academic writing on queer and trans theory with poetry and autobiography.

Awards and honours

Association for the Study of Australian Literature The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) is an Australian organisation which promotes the creation and study of Australian literature and literary culture especially through the interaction of Australian writers with teacher ...

's 2018

Mary Gilmore Award __NOTOC__ The Mary Gilmore Award is currently an annual Australian literary award for poetry, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Since being established in 1956 as the ACTU Dame Mary Gilmore Award, it has been award ...

. *

Arts Queensland The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

's 2017 XYZ Prize for Spoken Word.

Works

References

External links

Quinn Eades's webpage
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