Patrick West

 

Patrick researches and teaches creative writing, scriptwriting, cross-artform practice, practice-led research and literatures of place and the built environment. Recent publications include ‘The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation’ (M/C Journal, with Cher Coad, 2020), ‘The Transformation of Architectural Knowledge: Towards an Ethics of Poetry in Thom Gunn’s “The Annihilation of Nothing”’ (Axon: Creative Explorations, 2020) and the short story ‘Pauline’ (TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 2020). He is currently writing a monograph on colonial, postcolonial and decolonial representations of architecture and the built environment in the Australian short story (Routledge, forthcoming).

Patrick convenes the seminar series for the Writing, Literature and Culture group and is an active supervisor of Higher Degree Research candidates and commentator on HDR matters. In 2019 he was awarded the Faculty of Arts and Education Research Award for HDR Supervision and in 2020 he published ‘The PhD by Prior Publications in the Creative Arts at Deakin University: Advancing Industry Engagement and Social Justice Outcomes in the Doctoral Degree (Research)’ (TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses).

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