Back in 2017, I held my first symposium. Now, in 2020, the result is finally here! Writing the Australian beach: local site, global idea was published by Palgrave Macmillan this month.
Author Archives: Liz
Interdisciplinarity in practice
I wrote a piece for the latest issue of NiTRO, an Australian publication interested in the creative arts and how they fit within and outside of academia. There’s been some great articles in there over the years and I am pleased to join in! My piece is titled: Interdisciplinarity in practice: Casual academics, regional universities and doctoral supervision.
The Doctoral Experience
I am really excited about an upoming publication that is now available for pre-order: The Doctoral Experience: Student stories from the Creative Arts and Humanities (Brien, Batty, Ellison, Owens).
This book is the product of a surprisingly fruitful project that I was part of with my exceptional colleagues – Donna Brien, Craig Batty, and Alison Owens – and a host of generous, interesting research students. This book features their stories and it was really important to us to make sure we highlighted their voices.
Ten great Australian beach reads set at the beach
Back in December, as I was preparing for a brief island holiday, I managed to sneak in this article for The Conversation, called ‘Ten great Australian beach reads set at the beach‘. While it is by no means a definitive list, it certainly includes some that I think are really significant beach books but also ones that showcase some of the diversity of beach writing in Australia. Continue reading
The loss of fiction
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This post is more personal than anything else on this site. Please be aware this post mentions cancer.
The serene beach
I had the pleasure of chatting again with Jonathan Green and a panel of guests on Radio National’s Blueprint for Living. The session was all about serenity, and I was alongside two other presenters based in Melbourne: one discussing the Japanese garden, and the other architectural design. You can find the download link here.
Writing the Australian Beach
On Friday (August 18), I ran my first ever symposium! It was a really enjoyable day, with some excellent papers and ongoing conversations about the Australian beach and what it means to us as a country, in our fiction, on our screens, and under our feet. The original call for papers can be found here.
I wanted to capture some of the day in a blog post while it is still fresh in my mind, and also acknowledge and thank the enthusiasm and generosity of all the attendees. It was a day with wide ranging levels of experience from professor level through to very early emerging scholars. Regardless, it was a collegial atmosphere and an exciting day.
The dark side of the beach
You might have heard me recently chatting with the personable and engaging Jonathan Green on Radio National’s Blueprint for Living! It was such a fun experience to be able to talk about the ‘dark side of the beach’ for a national audience.
Beach in Cinema
I have been really lucky to be a part of a new(ish) publication: Filmurbia!: screening the suburbs, edited by David Forrest, Graeme Harper, and Jonathan Rayner and released in May this year.
It’s the third volume in their Cinema and Landscape collection, a series I have followed with avid interest during my PhD studies. Therefore, it was really exciting to be able to have my work included in this book, and I must thank Jonathan for his gentle yet rigorous reviewing and editing process! My chapter is titled “The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema” – unsurprisingly, it’s continuing my interest in the Australian beach.
Instagram project #3 – the end
It’s been quite a ride since I first began my Instagram project back in October. I was brimming with excitement, and finding a renewed enthusiasm for some of the research from my PhD. As I detailed in the first two blog posts about this project, I was organised and structured in my approach and intended on maintaining a buffer of drafted posts.
Dr Elizabeth Ellison 