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ProfessorCassandra Atherton

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean, Research

Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean, Research
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 72585 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • AFFILIATION
    Axon journal
  • AFFILIATION
    Writers in Conversation
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    AAWP
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    Writers Victoria
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    APC
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    AASRN
  • AFFILIATION
    IAFOR
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Deakin University Teacher of the Year
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    WJC Banks Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Vice Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Deakin University Commendations for Teaching Excellence
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Australian Postgraduate Award
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Felix Meyer Fellowship
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    University of California award for best interview-article
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Blanc Literary Award for best experimental debut novel.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2019 Prose Poetry Reading: Winchester, UK.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2021 New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA: panel, Bursting out of the frame: Writing ekphrastic poetry and its connection to visual art
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2021 Poetry on the Move, Canberra: Festival Guest Poet, Poetry reading, Prose Poetry Workshop and Panel: Ripping Language Apart
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2020 Activism at the Margins conference, RMIT, Melbourne: panel and performance, Activism and Ageing: Creative Responses towards a Politics of Hope
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2020 New Orleans Poetry Festival, Online: Covideos, haibun reading with US poet, Jonathan Penton.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2020 Poetry on the Move, Online: Festival Guest Poet, Well Known Corners, poetry reading.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2019 Venetian Blind, a Public Art Commission curated project with the European Cultural Centre, Venice Biennale.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2019 18th Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region, Macquarie University: paper, The Poetics of Poetry Translation: Internationalising contemporary Japanese poetry
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2019 AAWP Conference, UTS, Sydney: panel, How We Work: Emotional Labour and Women [with Jen Webb and Paul Hetherington, U Canberra].
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2019 AAWP Conference, UTS, Sydney: paper, Get Over Yourself: Thinking cooperatively, criticism and anothers insights