Dr Matthew Hooton

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of Humanities 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.

Career
Publications
Supervision
Contact

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2018 - ongoing	Senior 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

Creative Writing Journalism and Professional Writing Korean Literature Landscape Ecology Literatures in English North American Literature Philosophy

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

Original Creative Works

Year	Citation
2022	Authors: Hooton M. Title: Arrowhead. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages.
2022	Authors: Hooton M. Title: Us Skeletons On a Blind Date, Waiting. Description: Published in Westerly, 2022; 67(2):135-139.. Extent: 5 p..
2022	Authors: Hooton M. Title: The Four Corners of the Earth (are getting hot and slippery and difficult to hold, say the angels, and who stuck gum under the ledge anyway?). Description: N/A. Extent: 12 p..
2022	Authors: Hooton M. Title: Frozen in Late Middle Age. Description: N/A. Extent: 3 p..
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 MJ. 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..

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
2022	Principal Supervisor	A short fiction sequence and accompanying exegesis exploring varying concepts of place and space	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Morgan Wesley Nunan
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

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2021 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	The Darlings A seven-part television series Volume 1 Exegesis Volume 2	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Dancey Elizabeth Gordon
2021 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Volume 1 The Year of the Birds And Other Stories Volume 2 Lovely, Weird, and Creepy: Defining the Australian Suburban Gothic	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Gillian Erin Hagenus
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 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	'The Tempus Imperium' & 'The Spectrum of Estrangement: A Model Exploring the Effect of Neosemes and Neologisms on the Implied Reader'	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Juliet Ann Paine
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 Ekphrasis	Master 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
2018 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Part I: Creative Component “Breathing Plural” Part II: Exegesis Plural Breathing: Contemporary Approaches to Queering Ecopoetics	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Em Artur Koenig

Position: Senior Lecturer
Phone: 83134562
Email: matthew.hooton@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Napier, floor 6
Org Unit: School of Humanities

Dr Matthew Hooton

Appointments

Education

Research Interests

Original Creative Works

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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