Matthew Hooton

Research Interests

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

Dr Matthew Hooton

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

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.

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

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

Year Citation
2022 Hooton, M. (2022). Arrowhead SHORT STORY. SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES, 41(3), 6-9.
2022 Hooton, M. (2022). Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill (Review): Sydney: Hachette, 2022. 296 pp. $32.99. ISBN-13 9780733645211. Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature, 36(1), 171-172.
DOI

Year Citation
2024 Ryan, C., & Hooton, M. (2024). oWL, Bear,::machine:: Virtual NPC design as a shamanistic mode of resistance. In A. Walker, H. Grimmett, & A. L. Black (Eds.), Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education: How Games Play Us (pp. 58-69). Routledge.
DOI

Year Citation
2024 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Bodies. Extent: 2 pages.
2023 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Visions of the Afterlife. Extent: 11 pages.
2022 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Arrowhead. 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?). Extent: 12 p..
2022 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Frozen in Late Middle Age. Extent: 3 p..
2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: 206. Extent: 17 pages.
2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Nine Endings. Extent: 8 pages.
2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: Mr Edison's Explorers. Extent: 10 pages.
2021 Authors: Hooton M. Title: The Collectors. Extent: 4 pages.
2020 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Welcome To Fordlandia. Extent: 26 pages/8000 words.
2020 Authors: Hooton M. Title: “In Response to ‘Strings of Scarlet’”, by Hamish Gregory (2020). 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. 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. Extent: 2000 words.
2019 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Typhoon Kingdom. Extent: 288 pages.
2019 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: The House at the Edge of Town. Extent: 3000 Words.
2018 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Joseph Is a Brontosaurus Man, Mary Misses the Ice Age. Extent: 4 pages.
2018 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: Thirteen Monkeys and an Ageing Emu Run Amok through the Ruins of Oracle City. 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. Extent: 5 pages.
2016 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: This Country. Extent: 8 typed pages..
2016 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: How to Write a Successful Obituary for a Superhero. 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?. Extent: 5 pages.
2015 Authors: Hooton M. Title: But Icarus. Extent: 12 typed pages..
2013 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: This Tongue. Extent: 6 typed pages..
2013 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: "Foreigner" in At The Edge: A Collaborative Novel. Extent: 20 typed pages..
2013 Authors: Hooton MJ. Title: "Foreigner" in At The Edge: A Collaborative Novel. Extent: 20 typed pages..

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
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
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
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

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