Kunapipi Volume 18 Issue 2 Article 35 1996 Notes on Contributors, Index Anna Rutherford Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Rutherford, Anna, Notes on Contributors, Index, Kunapipi, 18(2), 1996. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol18/iss2/35 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Notes on Contributors, Index Abstract NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, Index This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol18/iss2/35 Notes on Contributors 345 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS MICHAEL ACKLAND'S principal research interests are nineteenth century literary culture. He has published extensively on Charles Harpur and Henry Kendall and is the editor of The Penguin book of 19th Century Australian Literature. He teaches at Monash University. JAN BRAZIER assisted Ken Inglis on his survey of war memorials in Australia. She is currently Archivist at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Having taught in Australia and the USA, BRUCE CLUNIES ROSS is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively on many aspects of Australian literary culture and music, and is an authority on the work of Percy Grainger. BRUCE DAWE is one of Australia's best known poets. He has won many awards including the Mary Gilmore Prize and the Patrick White Literary Award in 1980. Deeply concerned with the oppressed and deprived, he has an abiding interest in 'the lost people in our midst for whom no one speaks.' LIVIO DOBREZ is Reader in English and Convenor of Australian Studies at the Australian National University. He edited the Australian volume of Review of National Literature (1982) and is the author of books on modem European drama and Australian poetry of the sixties, and the recently published identifying Australia in Postmode= Times ( 1994). PAT DOBREZ is an independent scholar who works in Canberra and teaches part-time at the Australian Catholic and the Australian National Universities. An authority on the work of Martin Boyd, she co-authored (with Peter Herbst) The Art of the Boyds (1990) and has written a biography of Michael Dransfield. ANNA GRAY is Director of the Lawrence Wilson Gallery at the University of Western Australia. She was formerly Senior Curator of Art at the Australian War Memorial. Her work includes studies of A. Henry Fullwood, Kenneth Jack, and James W. R. Linton, and she edited a collection of Streeton letters: Letters from Smike. Professor of English at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches and researches drama and post-colonial literary studies, GARETH GRIFFITH has published a book on the plays of John Romeril. An authority on African writing, he is also one of the co-authors of The Empire Writes Back and The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. HELEN GILBERT teaches drama studies at the University of Queensland. Her work in Australian and post-colonial drama studies is recognized for her application of contemporary theory. KEVIN GREEN is an Australian who has taught for many years in Europe. He has a long-term research interest in Xavier Herbert, and teaches at the University of Besancon. The foundation editor of Australian Literary Studies, and the general editor of the UQP's Australian Authors series, LAURIE HERGENHAN held a chair in English at the University of Queensland before his recent retirement. Recently retired from his position as Professor of History at the Australian National University, where he remains an Emeritus Professor, KEN INGLIS has published 346 Notes on Contributors extens1vely on Australtan htstory. He has a particular mterest m war memorials. VERONICA KELLY teaches tn the Eng!Jsh Department at the University of Queensland and has published extensively on Australian theatre. She IS an authority on the work of Louis Nowra. She is editor of Australian Drama Studies. DAVID KENT teaches history at the University of New England. He has published extensively on C.E.W. Bean and Australian cultural history of the First World War. PETER KOCAN has wntten two partly autob10graph1cal novels, one of which, lhe Cure (1982), won the NSW Premire's Award for fichon. He has written a number of plays and two volumes of poetry including The Other Side of the Fence (1975), from which 'The Photograph' was taken, and Armistice (1980). In 1982 he won the Mattara Festival poetry Prize. Author of The Inked-in Image and The Way We Were, the cartoonist VANE UNDESAY ('Vane'), has drawn for a number of Australia's leading newspapers and maga.tines. I Ie is also a book illustrator and a theatre designer, and has a long-standing research interest in Australian comic art. Recently awarded the prestig1ous lmpac Dublin Fiction Prize for his novel Remembering Babylon, DAVIO MALOUF' S other work includes johnno (1975), An Imaginary Life (1978), Child's Play (1982), the war novel Fly Away Peter(l982) and Harland's Half Acre (1984). !lis poetry includes Bkyde and Other Poems (1970), Neighbours in a Thicket (1974), First Things Last (1981), and a Selected Poems (1982). A contemporary of Les Murray and Geoff Page, ROGER McDONALD IS the author of the highly acclaimed 1915 (1979) which was also turned into a television series by the ABC in 1982. A teacher, television producer, and editor, he has also published two volumes of poetry and several other works of prose. The editor of Overla11d, JOHN MclAREN is Professor of the llumanities at the Victoria University of Technology, Footscray He is the author of Australian Literature: A11 Historical Introduction, and is an authority on Pacific wnting. JOHN McQUILTON grew up in the township of Yackandandah. Among h1s publications are the Kelly Outbreak and the first historical atlas produced in Australia which he co-edited with Jack Canun. Originally trained as an historical geographer, his research interests remain regionally based. I Ie is currently completing research on the impact of the First World War on North Eastern Victoria. It is with deep regret that since com1mssioning his paper on conscription the editors have learned of the death, in London, of Professor TOM MILLAR. formerly dtrector of the Sir Robert Menzies Australian Studies Centre tn London, fom Millar had a distinguished career in Australta as a h1storian In a sustained writing career spanning over thirty years, LES A. MURRAY has made a singular contribution to Australian writing as a poet, reviewer, essayist and editor. The author of The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980), he has recently published a new CoUected Poems. AMANDA NETTELBECK teaches Australian and post-colonial literary studies at Flinders University in Adelaide. She is the author of a monograph on Dav1d Malouf and has published on aspects of Australian literary culture. Notes on Contributors 347 LOUIS NOWRA is the author of more than twenty plays, in addition to novels, translations, libretti, and scripts for television and film. among his most recent work is the film-script for Map of the Human Heart and the play- and film-script for Cosi. GEOFF PAGE is the author of the First World War novel Benton's Conviction (1985). In addition to having published five volumes of poetry, Page is also the editor of Shadows from Wke (1983), an anthology of war poetry and photographs. JUDITH RODRIGUEZ has taught literature at a number of overseas universities, and at present teaches at LaTrobe University. She has published five collections of poetry and a new and collected volume of her verse is about to be published. JOHN ROMERIL is the author of The Floating World (1974). Among the leading figures to come out of the New Wave, and a founder of the APG, his more recent work includes The KeUy Dance (1984), Lost Weekend (1989) and Black Cargo (1991). ANNA RUTHERFORD has recently returned to Australia after teaching post-colonial literature at Aarhus University for thirty years. She is the founding editor of the International Arts journal, Kunapipi (1979), and of Dangaroo Press, which publishes post-colonial and feminist creative writing and criticism. She has published widely in the field of post-colonial literature and is the first woman to be appointed international chairperson of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. The author of several volumes of poetry, PHILIP SALOM'S third volume of verse, Sky Poems, which includes the fine poem 'Seeing Gallipoli from the Sky', won the 1987 Commonwealth Poetry Prize; he was also successful in winning this award in 1981. He is also the author of a novel, Playback (1991). MAURIE SCOTT teaches theatre, film and textual studies at the University of Wollongong. His research interests cover Aboriginal theatre, television docu-drama, and Australian film and television. RIC THROSSELL is the son of novelist Katherine Susannah Prichard and Captain Hugo Throssell, VC. In addition to a distinguished career with the Department of Foreign Affairs, he has had a sustained involvement with Hterature, particularly drama. Best known for For Valour, about his father, which won the Mary gilmore Prize, he has also written a fine biography of his mother, Wild Weeds and Wind Flowers and, more recently, an autobiography, My Father's Son, a section of which is included in this book. IUCHARD TIPPING wrote 'VIETGRAM' in 1968, at the age of 18, as a telegram. Thus it is all in headline type. He lectures at the University of Newcastle, NSW. In February 1997 he has a major exhibition of visual poetry at the Eagle Gallery in London. GRAEME TURNER is a Professor of English at the University of Queensland, where he teaches and researches in the area of Cultural and Textual Studies.