Postgraduate Profile
Mr David Murray
PhD Candidate, School of Humanities & Social Science
Faculty/Division: Education and Arts
Discipline: English
Email: c8299985@uon.edu.au
Current Research
PhD Thesis title: Words for the Heat of Deeds.
Supervisors: Dr Keri Glastonbury and Dr Ros Smith
Abstract:
Words for the Heat of Deeds is a creative non-fiction writing project. It tracks the early, convict years of the Newcastle Penal Outstation as a series of interconnected story lines. The narrative is a meditation on reclaimed stories, crime, criminality, language, history and class. The accompanying exegesis will explain how this "alltagsgeschichte" (history of everyday life) is constructed using elements of historiography, cultural history, true crime and poetics.
Awards:
- 2007 Faculty of Education and Arts Medal
- 2007 University Medal
Writing published in the following:
Mascara Literary Review. Issue Two October 2007. (poems) Available here
Overland 191 - Winter 2008. published 23 May 2008. (poems)