home cooked theory

Touching Feeling

Finally finished writing the review for Eve Sedgwick’s book. If it’s any good it will appear somewhere on Electronic Book Review soon. It was hard writing about a text I found so difficult, but hopefully my account also suggests how absolutely rewarding it is. Working on the book proposal just now, it strikes me that [...]

week end

getting excited about prospects for a good panel at the perth csaa meet later this year. my international scholarly confidant kris is trying to make it to his first australian conference. it will be steamy weather here in december compared to notting hill! i’m taking an early weekend to get going on a book proposal [...]

PhD

I’ve uploaded a version of my PhD onto the University of Queensland server for the time being. It’s available for download at this address.

post precinct

just recovering after the launch of the QUT creative industries precinct here in brisbane last night. i met rock stars, animators, professors, film makers, fellow academics and sparkling new postdocs like myself. wonderful. i’m glad the alcohol licence ran out so early, or i might have had a bit too much fun. today i turned [...]