
Dr Matthew Hooton
Lecturer
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Author of the novels Deloume Road, published by Knopf and Jonathan Cape, and Typhoon Kingdom, published by UWAP, as well as short fiction and creative non-fiction for a variety of international publications.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2018 - ongoing Lecturer in Creative Writing University of Adelaide 2015 - 2017 Casual Lecturer University of Adelaide 2010 - 2014 Sessional Instructor/Lecturer University of Victoria -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2014 - 2017 University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2006 - 2007 Bath Spa University UK MA 1996 - 2000 University of Victoria Canada BA -
Research Interests
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Original Creative Works
Year Citation 2022 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Arrowhead. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages. 2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: 206. Description: N/A. Extent: 17 pages. 2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Nine Endings. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages. 2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Mr Edison's Explorers. Description: N/A. Extent: 10 pages. 2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: The Collectors. Description: N/A. Extent: 4 pages. 2020 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Welcome To Fordlandia. Description: N/A. Extent: 26 pages/8000 words. 2020 Authors: Hooton M. Title: “In Response to ‘Strings of Scarlet’”, by Hamish Gregory (2020). Description: N/A. Extent: 3-4 Pages. 2020 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Evander Holyfield Dreams Through Time to Steal George Foreman’s Blueprints for the Perfect Non-Stick Electric Grill. Description: N/A. Extent: 10 pages. 2019 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Because Puppets Do Not Age, Do Not Fear Gravity, Do Not Betray Those Who Love Them Most. Description: N/A. Extent: 2000 words. 2019 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Typhoon Kingdom. Description: N/A. Extent: 288 pages. 2019 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: The House at the Edge of Town. Description: N/A. Extent: 3000 Words. 2018 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Joseph Is a Brontosaurus Man, Mary Misses the Ice Age. Description: N/A. Extent: 4 pages. 2018 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Thirteen Monkeys and an Ageing Emu Run Amok through the Ruins of Oracle City. Description: N/A. Extent: 6 published pages of creative non-fiction appearing in the print version of Westerly.. 2017 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: The Great & Amazing Disappearing You. Description: N/A. Extent: 5 pages. 2016 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: This Country. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 typed pages.. 2016 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: How to Write a Successful Obituary for a Superhero. Description: N/A. Extent: 7 pages. 2016 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Is This Our Inheritance O Lord, and Is That Your Voice We Hear Echoing on the Party Line?. Description: N/A. Extent: 5 pages. 2015 Authors: Hooton M. Title: But Icarus. Description: N/A. Extent: 12 typed pages.. 2013 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: This Tongue. Description: N/A. Extent: 6 typed pages.. 2013 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: "Foreigner" in At The Edge: A Collaborative Novel. Description: N/A. Extent: 20 typed pages.. 2013 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: "Foreigner" in At The Edge: A Collaborative Novel. Description: N/A. Extent: 20 typed pages..
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Principal Supervisor Carnal Femininity: A Short Story Collection and Accompanying Exegesis Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Victoria Tomaszczyk 2021 Principal Supervisor Writing the Australian Suburban Gothic Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Gillian Erin Hagenus 2021 Principal Supervisor The creative component is a series of 8 TV comedy episodes. The exegetical component is a discussion of unreliable narration (both in existing television programs and in the author's own work) and how this technique impacts "closure" in television series.
Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Dancey Elizabeth Gordon 2020 Principal Supervisor Tattoos as Ekphrastic Narratives of Otherness in Crime Fiction Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Stephen William Abram 2020 Principal Supervisor A Prose Fiction Project on Colonel William Light Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Lyn Dickens 2019 Principal Supervisor Exerting Machines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Juliet Ann Paine 2018 Co-Supervisor Queer Ecologies and Contemporary Poetry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Em Artur Koenig -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor "Yñiga" and "Into the Forest: The Historical Imagination in Philippine Fiction" Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Glenn Lappay Diaz 2019 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Volume 1: The Lining of the Heart
Volume 2: Encounters with Visual Art through Creative Writing: Sketching as a Methodology, Unconscious Scanning and Characterisation through EkphrasisMaster of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Stephen William Abram 2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Volume 1: Tipping Points and Volume 2: Putting Together as an Art: A Writer's Guide to Intertexuality, the accompanying exegetical work Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Travis Lucas
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