Staff Details

Name:	Dr Kevin Brophy
	BA Melb Dip Ed Melb Grad Dip (Psych) Phil Inst MA (English) Melb PhD (English) Melb
Position:	Associate Professor
Area:	Creative Writing
Phone:	+61 3 83448425
Fax:	+61 3 93448462
Room:	A312
Email:	kevinjb@unimelb.edu.au

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Christine Balint	PHD	Creative Writing	completed	View Summary
Steven Conte	PHD	Creative Writing	completed	View Summary
Dan Disney	MCA	Creative Writing	completed	View Summary
Paul Mitchell	MCA	Creative Arts	completed	View Summary
Sean McMullen	PHD	Creative writing	current	View Summary
Helen Milte Bastow	PHD	Creative writing	current	View Summary
Arnold Zable	PHD	Creative writing	completed	- N/A -
David Carlin	PHD	Creative Writing	current	View Summary
Lucy Alice Butler	PHD	Creative Writing	current	View Summary
Elizabeth MacFarlane	PHD	Creative Writing	current	View Summary
Dan Disney	PHD	Creative Writing	current	View Summary
Ben D Goldsworthy	PHD	Creative writing	current	- N/A -
Miriam Alison Sved	PHD	Creative Writing	current	View Summary
Christina Natsis	PHD	Creative Writing	current	- N/A -
Anna Krien	MCA	Creative Writing	current	- N/A -
Ross Donlon	MCA	Creative Writing	current	- N/A -
Ashley Hibbert	MCA	Creative Writing/Theatre Studies	current	- N/A -
Beth Cardier	PHD	Creative Writing / Information Systems	current	- N/A -

Staff Profile - Dr Kevin Brophy

Associate Professor Kevin Brophy is a poet and novelist. He has had ten books published:
Mr Wittgenstein's Lion (Five Islands Press, 2007)
What Men and Women Do (Flat Chat Press, 2006)
Explorations in Creative Writing (Melbourne University Publishing, 2003)
Portrait in Skin (Five Islands Press, 2002)
Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing (Melbourne University Press, 1998)
Seeing Things (Five Islands Press, 1997)
Replies to the Questionnaire on Love (Five Islands, 1992)
The Hole through the Centre of the World (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
Visions (Angus & Robertson, 1989)
Getting Away With It (Wildgrass, 1982)

From 1980 to 1994 Kevin Brophy edited the small press literary journal Going Down Swinging.

His poems and essays have been anthologised in Best Australian Poems 2004, 2006 (Black Inc.), The Road South (Five islands, 2007), New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Five Islands 2001), Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family (Oxford 1999), My Secret Life (Melbourne Festival of Poetry 1999), Daughters and Fathers (UQP 1997) and other publications.

His book, Creativity, was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Nonfiction Literary Award.

Most recent publications:
'Writing PhD's: Integrational linguistics and a new poetics for the PhD', TEXT vol. 11, No. 1, April 2007 (http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/)
'How to read a poem', TEXT vol. 11, No. 1, April 2007 (http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/)
Three poems in Blast, issue no. 4, 2006
"Peculiarities and Monstrosities: Consciousness, Neuro-Science and Poetry" in Creativ e Writing: theory Beyond Practice (editors: Nigel Krauth & Tess Brady) Teneriffe: Post Pressed, 2006
"Repulsion and Day-Dreaming: Freud writing Freud" in New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing (forthcoming)
"The Dead" in Agenda vol. 41 n. 1-2
''Man-Moth' and the flame of influence: a poet reading poetry' in Westerly vol. 49, November 2004.
Kevin Brophy is a regular reviewer for Reading Time, the journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and contributes Book Notes for the Council of Adult Education book Reading Groups.
He has been awarded Australia Council for the Arts writers grants in 1974, 1986 and 2005. He has been awarded Arts Victoria project grants in 1996 and 2003.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Kevin Brophy is
a life member of the Victorian Writers' Centre
patron of the Melbourne Poets Union.
member of the Melbourne Poets Union Trust Account Committee
poetry judge for the Daylesford 'Words in Winter' competition
occasional public lecturer for the Existentialist Society
referee for the student publication 'Strange'
member of the judging panel for the 2007 Melbourne Moving Galleries
referee for UK-based journal New Writing: International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative writing
referee for Review Americana
referee for TEXT; the journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
member of the national committee of the AAWP

Kevin has conducted workshops,panels, and given readings at local schools, at the Victorian Writers Centre, the Melbourne Writers Festival, and at poetry venues in Melbourne and Canberra over the past two years.

Research profile:

Areas of interest are:
Psychoanalysis and creativity, consciousness and creativity, the teaching of creative writing, French surrealism; contemporary Australian poetry, contemporary Australian fiction; history of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis in Australia.