In conjunction with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Monash has recently launched a new Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. With a first prize of four-thousand dollars and a highest-placed Monash University student award of one thousand dollars, the prestigious new award is intended to encourage and foster emerging literary voices.
Dean of Arts, Professor Rae Frances, said [...]
Category Archives: ECPS
Monash Launches New Writing Prize
February 24, 2012 – 12:29 pm
Article on undergraduate research experiences
February 13, 2012 – 2:40 pm
An article about undergraduate research experiences was published in ‘Undergraduate Research News Australia’ in November 2011. It was co-authored by Denise Cuthbert(RMIT), Amy Dobson(Monash University) and Kate Cregan(Monash University).
The article has now been published, with modifications, in the online newspaper ‘The Thesis Whisperer’.
“For a couple of years I helped to run a course called “Contemporary Issues in [...]
Jane Montgomery Griffiths: R E Ross Script Development Award winner
December 13, 2011 – 11:02 am
Jane Montgomery Griffiths new play script has won the R E Ross Script Development Award.
A little piece for her sister, by Jane Montgomery Griffiths, re-imagines the stories of Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra. Jane juxtaposes everyday domesticity with mythic excesses to thrilling effect. Perceptive, precise, and beautifully structured.
Jane has been invited to participate in PlayWriting [...]
Professor’s Gift Overcomes Communication Barriers
December 12, 2011 – 10:30 am
Arriving in Australia in 1998 from Iran, Monash Professor Farzad Sharifian knows firsthand the trials and tribulations of international students, and the life-changing impact that a PhD scholarship can make.
A member of the Monash family for 6 years, Professor Sharifian is the Director of The Language and Society Centre, Faculty of Arts at Monash. He [...]
Jane Montgomery Griffiths: R E Ross Script Development Award winner
December 9, 2011 – 1:41 pm
Jane Montgomery Griffiths new play script has won the R E Ross Script Development Award.
A little piece for her sister, by Jane Montgomery Griffiths, re-imagines the stories of Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra. Jane juxtaposes everyday domesticity with mythic excesses to thrilling effect. Perceptive, precise, and beautifully structured.
Jane has been invited to participate [...]
Monash Presence at Melbourne Writers’ Festival
December 9, 2011 – 1:33 pm
Melbourne again cements its reputation as an international city of literature with this year’s Melbourne Writers’ Festival (MWF) set to kick off on Thursday 25 August. Again this year Monash University is pleased to announce its support for key events in the festival and the participation of our staff and alumni. For the 2011 MWF, [...]
Professor’s Gift Overcomes Communication Barriers
December 9, 2011 – 1:32 pm
Arriving in Australia in 1998 from Iran, Monash Professor Farzad Sharifian knows firsthand the trials and tribulations of international students, and the life-changing impact that a PhD scholarship can make.
A member of the Monash family for 6 years, Professor Sharifian is the Director of The Language and Society Centre, Faculty of Arts at Monash. He [...]
Australian Film Theory and Criticism
September 9, 2010 – 12:00 am
Dr Con Verevis, Associate Professor Deane Williams, Dr Noel King
2007 – 2009
Australian film theory and criticism has burgeoned over the past thirty years, but there is no dedicated book length study of the field. This research project will fill the gap, not only tracing the specificity of Australian film theory and criticism but also reasserting its place on [...]
