Philip Mead is inaugural Chair of Australian Literature and Director of the Westerly Centre. Philip teaches units in Australian Literary Studies, at Honours level, and the English units in the Master of Curriculum Studies (English) course, a collaborative course between the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education. He has also taught a MOOC, ‘Australian literature: a rough guide’ for the Coursera platform.
Philip’s research is at the intersections of national and transnational literary studies, cultural history and theory, poetics, literary education, and digital humanities. He has led nationally competitive research and teaching grants, most recently the ALTC funded project, ‘Australian Literature Teaching Survey’ (2009), the ARC Discovery Project grant for 2010-2012, ‘Monumental Shakespeares: an investigation of transcultural commemoration in 20th-century Australia and England’ (with Gordon McMullan, King’s College London), and the OLT funded Extension project ‘Update and Expansion of the AustLit Resource Teaching with AustLit site’ (2013-2014).
- Company:The University of Western Australia
- Short Bio:Chair of Australian Literature, English and Cultural Studies and Director, Westerly Centre
- http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/people/philip.mead