Jen Webb
Biography
Jen Webb studied in South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and Australia. She holds a PhD in cultural theory (art and society) and a DCA in writing (creativity and embodiment).
Jen is the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design, and acting head of the discipline of Arts and Humanities. Her academic interests focus on the relationship between the field of artistic production and the wider social domain, including how representations are made (in art, literature and news media) of human rights issues, conflict and crisis, and how individuals perceive themselves and their lived experience.
This research has resulted in a variety of outputs, both creative and critical. Books include titles on the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, and on the topics of globalization, visual culture and representation, as well as the collection of poems, Proverbs from Sierra Leone (Five Islands Press, 2004) and the short story collection Ways of Getting By (Ginninderra Press, 2006). Her academic essays, articles and reviews, and her poems and short stories, have been widely published in Australia and overseas. Jen is currently writing a second edition of the title Understanding Foucault (with Geoff Danaher and Tony Schirato), and a book titled Understanding the body (with Dr Jordan Williams).
Current research projects:
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with Dr Paul Magee (UC) and Associate Professor Kevin Brophy (University of Melbourne): the links between creative practice and knowledge, with particular attention to poetry, and to how poets approach the joint questions of knowledge and prosody
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with Dr Caroline Turner (ANU): literature and art in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York, and the subsequent wars in the Middle East
Jen is also editor (with Nigel Krauth) of the A-ranked journal, TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses; (with Tony Schirato) of the Sage book series Understanding Contemporary Culture; and of the website for the Australian Postgraduate Writing Network, an online community and repository of information designed to improve the experience of students in this discipline.
Understanding Representation (Sage, 2009)
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book228443
Reading the Visual (Allen and Unwin, 2004 with Tony Schirato)
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=305&book=9781865087306
Australian Postgraduate Writers Network
http://www.writingnetwork.edu.au/
TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses
Ways of Getting By (2006) and Proverbs from Sierra Leone (2004); review by Moya Costello
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april07/costello_rev.htm
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