PROFESSOR GRAEME HARPER
Recommended:
- BUY BOOKS
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
- National Association of Writers in Education (UK)
- Visiting Japan
- ARTEFACT
Contact
Phone : UK 07825 365155
Skype: graemeharper
e mail: graeme@graemeharper.com
email: brooke@brookebiaz.co.uk
Brooke Speaks
I convinced him to give me a bit of space over here to talk about creative writing, and this is all I get! When I mention this website, he just starts quoting John Henry Newman. "There is nothing more noble than the creation of a university . .." Blah Blah Blah. I don't know, maybe he's onto something! Maybe you should decide for yourself: greatuniversity.org
Welcome
Welcome! This is the website of Graeme Harper.
As writer, critic and research leader, he holds Directorships and Chairs as well Honorary Professorships and other appointments, and such awards as the National Book Council Award for New Fiction, and grants and fellowships from major research and cultural councils in the UK, Europe and Australasia. He is also director of a variety of UK-USA higher learning partnerships, and is a regular international speaker on the advancement and support of higher learning and on topics concerned with creativity, critical responsiveness and university leadership.
He is a director of research programmes in the UK and a member of a number of national and international bodies focussing on the advancement of Education, the Arts and Enterprise, with a particular interest in the development of world-class Higher Education.
Graeme (aka Brooke Biaz) holds dual British-Australian citizenship. Growing up in Australia, and living in the UK, he has a heritage that includes Scottish and French roots, and he holds degrees from the University of East Anglia (PhD), University of Technology, Sydney (DCA), University of New England (MLitt) and University of Sydney (BA).
Brooke Biaz - My Recent Books
Moon Dance. Being born in the 1960s can take ten years of your life. . . . Sometimes the universe and our lives entwine. In the era of the space race, as JFK sent us rocketing toward The Moon, a family, a life, a love, was being created in a tropical beach house. Moon Dance is the story of a decade, a conception, a family, a birth. One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind!
Small Maps of the World. This new collection of fiction by Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz, investigates the meanings attached to events in place; and then the tourism of time bound to places, with bountiful humor and wit Small Maps of the World unearths the bonds between individuals and location but also wonders on the underlying connections between people and their sense of belonging.read more
New Books by Graeme Harper
The Creative Writing Guidebook. Writers from around the world investigate Creative Writing. The Creative Writing Guidebook explores the art of writing creatively.
The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media. A comprehensive study of sound and music in cinema, television, on the web, on disks. A worldwide group of scholars and artists contribute.
Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research, Pedagogy. Graeme Harper and Jeri Koll. A collection of esays on practising, researching and teaching Creative Writing. Features writers from the USA, UK and Australia
Visiting Japan. A WIki-novel to which you can contribute. Become one of the writers from all around the World! You can access this at the Visiting Japan link on the left.
Forthcoming
Books, stories, articles, blogs, wikis and operas. Works in progress:
Cinema and Landscape, with Jonathan Rayner; sixteen international film experts examine the relationship between film and landscape.
What is Creative Writing? A Philosophy of Creative Text. What is Creative Writing? What do we mean by the term? What does it involve? And how does it deal with World and with ourselves. Out soon.
Phoning, Brooke's new novel. There's a phone involved, and a volcano, and some young folk are lost in a beachside city.
Sally's Music, The World Hotel in the World and Reflections. Three children's books with illustrator, Steve Whittle.
Quasimodo's Breakfast: Creative Writing Research. The first comprehensive case-study.
Cookery, an opera, with the fine composer Bill Connor.
Creative Writing, Critical Reading. With Rob Pope, Robyn Bolam and David Stacey.
Great Journals
I love to contribute to journals and magazines, but Graeme has three journal obsessions:
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge), the independent journal for Creative Writing in universities and colleges. A research journal, a journal for creative works, discussions of Creative Writing, writers, and the teaching of Creative Writing,
Studies in European Cinema, (Intellect) Graeme edits this with Owen Evans. In this journal film experts worldwide debate European film, past and present.
The Creative Industries Journal. (Intellect) Graeme works with Simon Roodhouse and Debi Hayes on this one. He's Associate Editor, along with Debi. Simon takes the look-out position. Discussion of the World's most vibrant economic sector: the creative sector!
Projects
Universities are places where knowledge dwells, where knowledge can be explored and where knowledge can independently develop. The following projects highlight this process:
ARTEFACT. Investigating the historical artefacts of Creative Writing practice.
Emeritus.org. The World's scholarly talent.
International Centre for Creative Writing Research (ICCWR). An international network of Creative Writing researchrs.
Creative Lab. Cross-disciplinary creative research
Institute for Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities (IRLAH) Leaders in Arts and Humanities
Great Writing. The UK's international conference.
European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF) . International forum for the discussion of the films of Europe.
Professors Forum. The title "professor" must mean something.Encouraging leadership in universities.
eliterature. New Writing for disk and web.
Research Innovation. The good undertake, but the best innovate.