PROFESSOR GRAEME HARPER
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Contact
Phone : UK 07825 365155
Skype: graemeharper
email: 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, Graeme holds Directorships and Chairs as well as Honorary Professorships and other appointments, alongside such awards as the National Book Council Award for New Fiction, and grants and fellowships from major research and cultural councils and organisations in the UK, USA, Europe and Australasia. He is the founder of a variety of international research links and programmes (involving universities in the USA, UK, Asia and the Pacific and beyond), and he is a regular international speaker on research topics concerned with creativity, practice-led research, critical responsiveness and the future of creative communication in the digital and 'new media' world, as well as on the advancement of universities. Reading as himself, and as Brooke Biaz, he is a regular reader at literary events.
As a director of research programmes, Graeme is an elected or appointed member of national and international bodies focussing on the advancement of Higher Education, the Arts and the Creative Industries, with a particular interest in the development of world-class Higher Education in the creative fields. Among other things, he has also been involved in the creation and launch of Creative Universities (a network of universities who value and promote creativity), Creative Lab., a multi-disciplinary forum for exploring creative practice, MedArts (an RSA network promoting links between Medicine and the Arts), and ARTeFACT (a project unearthing and exploring the evidence of creative practice). He has been Chair of Higher Education at the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), and he is a former member of the European Commission's DGX "Panel of Experts". As a regular advisor to universities in the USA, UK and elsewhere, as well as to research councils, arts organisations, government bodies and private enterprise, he promotes the exchange and development of new ideas through creative endeavour and education.
Graeme (aka Brooke Biaz) holds dual citizenship, and has worked in a range of countries (eg. USA, UK, Australia). His heritage includes Scottish and French roots, as well as Australian links. His formal qualifications includes doctoral degrees from the University of East Anglia (PhD) and the University of Technology, Sydney (DCA), and degrees from the University of New England (MLitt), and the University of Sydney (BA). He is Fellow of a number of organisations.
Brooke Biaz - My Recent Books
Camera Phone. How powerful a vision has the young and modern film-maker, connected by cell phone to the entire World? This new novel Out Now with the fine Parlor Press.
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
On Creative Writing. What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing, as both art form and mode of communication, and how to we come to understand it? On Creative Writing considers what lies at the core of the very human creative activity called Creative Writing.
Cinema and Landscape, with Jonathan Rayner; sixteen international film experts explore the relationship between film and landscape. *Order at bookstores, street or online.
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.
On 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.
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 excellent composer Bill Connor.
Creative Writing, Critical Reading. With Rob Pope, Robyn Bolam and David Stacey.
Great Journals
Contributes to journals and magazines worldwide. And has three journal editing 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.
Creative Universities. An international universities network promoting the university ideal.
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.