Professor Jeri Kroll
Academic Level E
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Emeritus Professor Jeri Kroll was the inaugural Dean of Graduate Research. She has published on Samuel Beckett, creative writing research and pedagogy, research higher degrees, contemporary literature and children's literature. Past President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she has written over twenty-five titles for adults and young people (two Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Awards). Recent critical books are Creative Writing: Drafting, Revising and Editing (Bloomsbury 2020), 'Old and New, Tried and Untried': Creativity and Research in the 21st Century University' (Common Ground 2016) and Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). Recent creative books are Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems and Vanishing Point (verse novel), a staged reading of which took place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 'Page to Stage' Festival and a full production at George Washington University in 2014. A winner in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, the complete book was published by Puncher and Wattmann and shortlisted for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards. She completed a Doctor of Creative Arts degree in February of 2024.
Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 2024
PhD, Columbia University, New York City, USA, 1974
MA, University of Warwick, UK, 1968
BA Honours, Smith College, Mass., USA, 1967
Vanishing Point shortlisted for 2015 Queensland Literary Awards.
Varuna Writers' Retreat Fellowships (2009, 2000).
Shortlisted Rosemary Dobson Poetry Prize, 2009.
Runner-up Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, 2006.
May Gibbs Trust Fellowship, 2006.
International Exchange Residency (one month), Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamaghkerrig, Ireland, 2005.
A Coat of Cats, Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book, 1999.
Swamp Soup, Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book, 1996.
Australia Council, Literature Board, Community Writer's Fellowship and General Writing Grants.
Numerous South Australian Government Writing Grants.
Numerous poetry prizes and shortlistings.
Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing. Postgraduate supervisions.
Creative Writing, Writing for Children, Poetry – supervising only now.
Past Presidents Advisory Committee, Australasian Association of Writing ProgramsExecutive Management Committee, Australasian Association of Writing Programs
ARC Discovery Grants (Assessor, Expert of International Standing)
ERA Peer Reviewer
Editorial Boards: New Writing, Write4Children, TEXT
- Literature - English
- Writing
- Contemporary Poetry
- Creative Writing in Higher Education
- International Writers' Organisations
- The Writer in the Academy
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