Nicholas Jose is an essayist and fiction writer. He taught in China 1986-87, and served as Cultural Counsellor in the Australian Embassy Beijing 1987-1990. A full-time writer from 1991, he resumed his academic career as Chair of Creative Writing at Adelaide University [2005-2008]. A past president of International PEN Sydney, he is general editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (also published as The Literature of Australia).
He was Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University 2009-2010 and taught there again in 2011. He is Adjunct Professor with the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, and Professor of English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at The University of Adelaide.
For Other Worlds Nick leads the Antipodean China theme and is a participant in the parallel discussion of the Literatures of the South. As well as contributing a number of relevant essays to the project, he is co-editing a collection of essays, Antipodean China, forthcoming 2020, and has co-edited Everything Changes: A Transcultural Anthology (UWAP 2019).
Related Posts
Antipodean China workshop
23-24 November, 2017, The University of Adelaide
Cultural Musing – The South
23 August 2017, Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide.
Contemporary Chinese Literature – Panel Discussion
28 November 2017, Western Sydney University.
China Australia Literary Forum 2017
7-11 May, Guangzhou (in Guangdong Province)
Writing From the South: Writers in Conversation and Public Literary Readings
State Library of NSW, 10-12 April, 2019
Review of ‘A New Literary History of Modern China’
January-February 2018, Nicholas Jose
Nicholas Jose Book Chapter – ‘Transcultural Affinities’
in Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption, March 2018.
Book Launch: Professor Li Yao’s Ten-volume Translation of Australian Literature
12 April 2018, Western Sydney University