Nicholas Jose

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics


  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2012 - 2017 Professor of Creative Writing Bath Spa University
    2012 - ongoing Adjunct Professor Western University
    2009 - 2010 Visiting Chair of Australian Studies Harvard University
    2008 - 2011 Chair in Writing University of Western Sydney
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    1974 - 1978 University of Oxford United Kingdom DPhil
    1970 - 1973 Australian National University Australia BA Honours
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2017 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Port Adelaide Football Club in China: A Case for an Intercultural Approach to Public Diplomacy? Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Andrew Sloan Hunter
    2016 - 2018 Principal Supervisor The Surreal Realist Cinema of Jia Zhangke Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Thomas Francis Moran
    2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Music in The Life and Work of Patrick White Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Vincent Patrick Plush
    2014 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Silence, Shamans and Traumatic Haunting: A Novel and Accompanying Exegesis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Matthew James Hooton
    2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor "Horatio Dawn" and "Invisibly Somewhere between the Two Clauses" Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jeffrey James Errington
    2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor This Old Man and An Act of Reading and Writing. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jonathan Mark Zweck
    2012 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Mobile Lives
    'The Expatriates: Short Stories' and
    'The Possibilities of Expatriate Fiction: Exegesis'
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Joanne Nicole Lennan
    2012 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Writing the Sixties: Stardust and Golden Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Prof Douglas McEachern
    2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Volume 1 Striving for Honesty: A Travel Writer in Brazil.
    Volume 2 Striving for Honesty: A Travel Writer in Brazil
    Playing God: The Travel Book and its Potential to (Re)design the World
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Fran Bryson
    2012 - 2013 Co-Supervisor "The Hunt" a novel and the accompanying exegesis "A Voyage Through Darkness: Finding a Voice in the Silence of Bluebeard's Castle" Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Vanna Morosini
    2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Volume 1 5251
    Volume 2 5251: The Short Story Cycle and the Representation of a Named Place
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Rebekah Jane Clarkson
    2006 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Wrestling Knowledge of Another Kind: Memory, Myth and Mapping the Exegetical Process. and The Stone Crown Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Malcolm Walker
    2006 - 2009 External Supervisor 'Disquiet' Novella and Screenplay: Adaptation and Creative Hybridity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Julia Leigh
    2005 - 2007 Principal Supervisor The Novel: End of the Night Girl and Exegesis: Navigating the Kingdom of Night: Writing the Holocaust Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Amy Matthews
    2005 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Representations of the Other in Contemporary Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Rudrakumar Soman
    2005 - 2008 Principal Supervisor 'The White Distance', a Novel and Reframing the Past for the Present: Writing 'The White Distance' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Susan Errington
    2005 - 2007 Co-Supervisor "The Return to the Mother" Exegesis accompanying the Novel "And the Word was Song" Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Heather Taylor Johnson
    2005 - 2009 Co-Supervisor Form in Fiction: The Development of 'I Dream of Magda' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Stefan Lashchuk
  • Board Memberships

    Date Role Board name Institution name Country
    2015 - ongoing Advisory Board Member EU Centre for Global Affairs The University of Adelaide Australia
    2015 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Anthem Press United States
    2014 - ongoing Advisory Board Member The AALITRA Review Monash University Australia
    2013 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Australian Cultural Studies Shanghai University of International Business & Economics China
    2013 - ongoing Board Member Australian Experimental Art Foundation - Australia
    2013 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Sydney Review of Books University of Western Sydney Australia
    2011 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Texas Studies in Language and Literature - United States
  • Committee Memberships

    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2012 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Adelaide Writers Week Advisory Committee - Australia

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