Adjunct Professor Nicholas Jose

Adjunct Professor Nicholas Jose

Adjunct Professor, School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts

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  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2012 - 2017 Professor of Creative Writing Bath Spa University
    2012 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
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  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2020 Jose, N. (2020). The Story of the Moon‑Bone. Westerly, 65(1), 22-57.
    2018 Jose, N. (2018). The Dao of translation: an East–West dialogue, by Douglas Robinson, London and New York, Routledge, 2015. Translation Studies, 11(1), 105-107.
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    2018 Jose, R. (2018). UQP Makes History: a personal version. Sydney Review of books, 02 Nov 2018, np.
    2018 Jose, R. (2018). Qiu Miaojin: the bittersweet. Mascara Literary Review, (22), np.
    2017 Jose, R. (2017). That certain cut: towards a characterology of APWT. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, Special Issue(47), 1-9.
    2016 Jose, R. N. (2016). Coetzee in China. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 58(4), 451-472.
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    2015 Jose, R., & Jose, N. (2015). Translation plus: on literary translation and creative writing. The AALITRA Review: A Journal of Literary Translation, 10, 5-17.
    2015 Jose, R. (2015). Creative Writing in China. The China Story Journal.
    2014 Jose, R. (2014). Metamorphic Malouf. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 14(2), 1-8.
    2014 Jose, R. (2014). J. M. Coetzee, R. G. Howarth, South to South. New Scholar, 3(2), 85-98.
    2013 Bohm, M., & Sanders, K. (2013). The conservation status of the world's reptiles. Biological Conservation, 157, 372-385.
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    2013 Jose, R. (2013). Deconstructing the dumpling: Australia, China, lived connections. Journal of Australian Studies, 37(1), 116-129.
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    2012 Jose, R. (2012). Aporetic Australia in The White Tiger, The Boat and The Hamilton Case. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 12(2), 1-11.
    2012 Jose, R. (2012). Damage control: Australian literature as translation. Westerly, 57(1), 102-120.
    2011 Jose, R. (2011). Visitants: Randolph Stow's End Time Novel. Transnational Literature, 3(2), 1-9.
    2010 Jose, R. (2010). At the Limit of Literature. Modernism/Modernity, 17.
    2010 Bao, Q., Zhang, H., Yang, J. X., Wang, S., Tang, D. Y., Jose, R., . . . Loh, K. P. (2010). Graphene-polymer nanofiber membrane for ultrafast photonics. Advanced Functional Materials, 20(5), 782-791.
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    2009 Schoenauer, M. (2009). Editorial introduction. Evolutionary Computation, 17(2), III.
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    2007 Jose, R. (2007). 'There’s this world too'. Australian Book Review, March, 16-17.
    2006 Proud, C. G. (2006). Oncogene: Introduction. Oncogene, 25(48), 6346.
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    2006 Jose, R. (2006). Writers in prison. Wet Ink, 4, 20-21.
    2006 Jose, R. (2006). Go West. The Age, A2, 16-17.
    2005 Jose, R. (2005). Review of Talking English : Tony Roberts Frontier Justice. Australian Book Review, 270, 14-15.
    2005 Jose, R. (2005). Oh, great river (review): Yo Yo, Ghost Tide. Australian Book Review, 274, 56.
    2005 Jose, R. (2005). A Shelf of Our Own: Creative Writing and Australian Literature. Australian Book Review, 276, 25-29.
    2005 Jose, R. (2005). Jumping puddles. Australian Author, 37, 8-11.
    2004 Jose, R. (2004). Going, going, GUAN. The Australian, September, 18-19.
    2004 Jose, R. (2004). The Writing's on the Wall. Financial Times (London, 1888), 2, 14-15.
    2003 Jose, R. (2003). Necklace of Pearl: Henry Reynolds "North of Capricorn: the Untold Story of Australia's North". Australian Book Review, 256, 11-12.
    2003 Jose, R. (2003). Compost and Pollination. Southerly, 63(1), 9-23.
    2003 Jose, R. (2003). The Compliment Men. Meanjin, 62(4), 7-20.
    2002 Jose, R. (2002). The Wanderer: Ouyang Yu. Sidewalk, 9, 59-62.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). My federation. Postwest: research bulletin, 18, 9-15.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). Asian-Australian dialogues in the visual arts: Sherman Galleries and Gallery 4A at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre. Art and Australia, 38(4), 592-597.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). At Home: Liu Xiaodong and Yu Hong. ArtAsiaPacific, 30, 42-49.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). Chords of the Great Dead Helen Hewson: John Shaw Neilson: A Life in Letters. Australian Book Review, 229, 10-12.

  • Books
    Year Citation
    2021 Jose, N., & Madden, B. (Eds.) (2021). Antipodean China: Reflections on Literary Exchange. Giramondo Publishing.

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2021 Jose, R. (2021). Visitants: Stow's End Time Novel. In K. L. Rendell (Ed.), Randolph Stow: Critical Essays (First ed., pp. 203-218). UWA Publishing Crawley WA: UWAP.
    2021 Jose, R. (2021). A manual for writers: Elizabeth Costello. In B. Castles (Ed.), Reading like an Australian Writer (1 ed., pp. 314-324). Sydney, NSW: NewSouth Publishing.
    2021 Jose, R. (2021). Afterword. In R. Jose, & B. Madden (Eds.), Antipodean China: Reflections on Literary Exchange (1 ed., pp. 214-234). Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo.
    2021 Jose, R. (2021). Afterword. In R. Jose, & B. Madden (Eds.), Antipodean China: Reflections on Literary Exchange (1 ed., pp. 214-234). Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo.
    2021 Jose, R. (2021). Regarding Lady Precious Stream: a theatrical translation. In L. Gerber, & L. Qi (Eds.), A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919-2019) (1 ed., pp. 73-85). London, UK: Routledge.
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    2021 Jose, R., & Madden, B. (2021). Reading each other: China and Australia. In N. Jose, & B. Madden (Eds.), Antipodean China: Reflections on Literary Exchange (1 ed., pp. 3-7). Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo Publishing.
    2019 Jose, R. N., & Song, X. (2019). Introduction. In X. Song, & R. N. Jose (Eds.), Everything Changes Australian Writers and China: a Transcultural Anthology (Vol. 16, 1st ed., pp. 1-10). Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing.
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    2019 Jose, R. N., & Song, X. (2019). Introduction. In X. Song, & R. N. Jose (Eds.), Everything Changes Australian Writers and China: a Transcultural Anthology (Vol. 16, 1st ed., pp. 1-10). Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing.
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    2018 Jose, R. (2018). Contrary Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Fiction. In G. Griffiths, & P. Mead (Eds.), The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary (pp. 121-138). Stuttgart; Germany: ibidem-Verlag.
    2017 Jose, R. (2017). In the Swash Zone. In J. Ley, & C. Menzies-Pike (Eds.), The Australian Face (pp. 194-204). Artarmon NSW: Giramondo.
    2017 Jose, R. (2017). Transcultural Affinity: In praise of Wang Zuoliang. In X. Song, & Y. SUN (Eds.), Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption (pp. 65-80). Singapore: Springer.
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    2013 Jose, R. (2013). Geoffrey Dutton: little Adelaide and New York Nowhere. In P. Buttress (Ed.), Adelaide: a literary city (1 ed., pp. 183-198). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
    2013 Jose, R. (2013). Cheeky. In R. Dixon, & B. Rooney (Eds.), Scenes of reading: is Australian literature a world literature? (1 ed., pp. 189-195). Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
    2013 Jose, R. (2013). The year the dragon came: Post-Tiananmen stories. In T. Dalziell, & P. Genoni (Eds.), Telling stories: Australian life and literature 1935-2012 (1 ed., pp. 444-451). Australia: Monash University Press.
    2013 Jose, R. (2013). "Our kind of country": Writing Australia from New Mexico. In R. Lloyd, & J. Fornasiero (Eds.), Magnificent Obsessions: Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley (1 ed., pp. 104-121). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    2012 Jose, R. (2012). Contemporary approaches to literature. In Unknown (Ed.), Window and Bridge III: Speeches of Chinese and Foreign Writers (1 ed., pp. 161-165). China: Writers Publishing House.
    2011 Jose, R. (2011). Rewriting Australian literature. In B. Doecke, L. McLean Davies, & P. Mead (Eds.), Teaching Australian Literature: From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings (1 ed., pp. 95-107). Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press.
    2009 Stringer, R., Erwidodo., Feridhanusetyawan, T., & Anderson, K. (2009). Introduction. In K. Anderson, R. Stringer, E. Feridhanusetyawan, & T. Feridhanusetyawan (Eds.), Indonesia in a Reforming World Economy: Effects on Agriculture, Trade and the Environment (pp. 1-9). University of Adelaide Press.
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    2006 Jose, R. (2006). Adam Aitken. In Australian writers, 1975-2000 (pp. 10-15). Detroit: Gale Group.
    2005 Jose, R. (2005). Bliss and damnation: Peter Carey in Australia. In A. Gaile (Ed.), Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey (pp. 137-147). New York: Rodopi.
    2005 Jose, R. (2005). The sinking ship. In Interesting times: focus on contemporary Australian art. Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). Coloratura Ghosts: Greg Leong's Singing Histories. In Greg Leong's singing history quilts for new Chinese Australians - swagman, shearer, bushranger and Chinaman tin miner (pp. 2-6). Launceston, Tasmania, Australia: Greg Kwok Keung Leong.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). Giving Voice. In David Malouf : a celebration (pp. 21-26). Australia: National Library of Australia.
    2001 Jose, R. (2001). Foreword. In Amor Mundi: True Stories (pp. 1-5). Altona, Victoria: Common Ground Publishing.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2009 Jose, R. (2009). Australian literature inside and out. In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : Special Issue: Australian Literature in a Global World (pp. 1-13). Australia: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

  • Conference Items
    Year Citation
    2021 Jose, R. (2021). Culture Fever: The Importance of the Arts. Poster session presented at the meeting of https://westernsydney.edu.au/iac/events/past_events/2021_annual_address_-_culture_fever_the_importance_of_the_arts_by_professor_nicholas_jose. Western Sydney University Parramatta: Australia China Institue for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University.

  • Original Creative Works
    Year Citation
    2021 Authors: Jose R. Title: Ginkgo biloba. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
    2020 Authors: Jose R. Title: Evvy After. Description: N/A. Extent: 11 pages.
    2019 Authors: Jose N. Title: Solstice. Description: N/A. Extent: 11 pages.
    2018 Authors: Jose R. Title: Beetroot. Description: N/A. Extent: 14 pages.
    2018 Authors: Jose R. Title: Feathers or Lead Meanjin A-Z. Description: N/A. Extent: 28 pages.
    2017 Authors: Jose R. Title: Occasional stories that scrape at the heart. Description: Book title: The Red Pearl and Other Stories. Extent: 6 pages.
    2017 Authors: Jose R. Title: A Local Footnote. Description: N/A. Extent: 4 pages.
    2016 Authors: Jose R. Title: Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett. Description: N/A. Extent: 5 pages.
    2016 Authors: Jose R. Title: In the Swash Zone. Description: N/A. Extent: 15 pages.
    2015 Authors: Jose R. Title: On Fortune. Description: N/A. Extent: 20 minutes.
    2015 Authors: Jose R. Title: Rostro Original. Description: Translation of Original Face by Nicholas Jose; translated by Monica Jawerbaum and Julieta Barba. Extent: 289 pages.
    2014 Authors: Jose R. Title: Ah Xian: Strange Stones. Description: Essay on Ah Xian's Evolutionaura works which were presented as part of the Dark Heart exhibition by the Art Gallery of South Australia. This essay is published in Dark heart / Nick Mitzevich - Adelaide, South Australia Art Gallery of South Australia 2014. Extent: 4 pages.
    2014 Authors: Jose R. Title: In Hot Water. Description: N/A. Extent: 13 pages.
    2014 Authors: Jose R. Title: The slickest little Korean scumbag Down Under. Description: Published in: Edge of elsewhere, 2014 / Dagostino, M., Havilah, L., Seeto, A. (eds.), Ch. 15, pp. 112-117. Extent: 6 pages.
    2014 Authors: Jose R. Title: Bapo. Description: N/A. Extent: 231 pages.
    2013 Authors: Jose R. Title: Auto da fé: The burning library by Geordie Williamson. Description: N/A. Extent: 2050 words.
    2013 Authors: Jose R. Title: Writing Asian Poetry in English. Description: N/A. Extent: 5200 words.
    2013 Authors: Jose R. Title: Stewart MacFarlane; Angela Valamanesh and Hossein Valamanesh. Description: Chapters in : Heartland: contemporary art from South Australia, by Nici Cumpston, Lisa Slade et al.. Extent: 10 pages.
    2012 Authors: Jose R. Title: On the way. Description: Essay in: Stewart MacFarlane: paintings, by Nicholas Jose & Timothy Morrell. Extent: 14 pages.
    2010 Authors: Jose R. Title: What Love Tells Me. Description: Type of work : short story Extent : 6 p.. Extent: 9 pages.
    2009 Authors: Jose R. Title: The literature of Australia: an introduction. Description: Type of work : Book Chapter Extent : 16 p.. Extent: 16 pages.
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    2009 Authors: Jose R. Title: Introduction. Description: Type of work : Book Chapter Extent : 6 p.. Extent: 6 pages.
    2009 Authors: Jose R. Title: I had written him a letter. Description: Type of work : Book Chapter Extent : 15 p.. Extent: 15 p..
    2009 Authors: Jose R. Title: Australian Literature and the Missing Body. Description: Type of work : Journal Article Extent : 3 p.. Extent: 3 pages.
    2009 Authors: Jose R. Title: My China Project. Description: Contemporary Chinese art has become a dominant presence in contemporary art internationally in a relatively short time and plays an important role in global images of China, but little research has been done into the early development of this phenomenon in the 1980s, which this piece investigates from the personal perspective of a witness and participant. Drawing on archives that have not been available before, and personal information, along with newly situated readings of the work of key artists, this research reconfigures the conventional understanding of the contemporary Chinese art phenomenon by locating its specific and politicised historical context and trajectory. This approach has since been pursued by other leading art institutions, including the Ullens Contemporary Art Foundation, Beijing. Extent: 7 pages.
    2008 Authors: Jose R. Title: Avenue of Eternal Peace. Description: N/A. Extent: 286 pages.
    2008 Authors: Jose R. Title: Refreshing Literary History. Description: Type of work : Newspaper article Extent : 1 p.. Extent: 1 page.
    2008 Authors: Jose R. Title: Emeritus Professor Wally Frith addresses a ceremony at Peking Union Medical College (Beijing, 2008). Description: Type of work : Short Story Extent : 5 p.. Extent: 5 p..
    2008 Authors: Jose R. Title: The Disappearing Book. Description: Type of work : Book Extent : 280 p.. Extent: 280 p..
    2007 Authors: Jose R. Title: The Disappearing Act of Translation. Description: Type of work : Commentary Extent : 3 p.. Extent: 3 p..
    2007 Authors: Jose R. Title: Back to the Avantgarde. Description: Type of work : Journal article Extent : 2 p.. Extent: 2 p..
    2007 Authors: Jose R. Title: George. Description: Extent : 4 pages. Extent: 4 pages.
    2006 Authors: Jose R. Title: Paper Nautilus [reprint]. Description: Type of work : Book. Extent: N/A.
    2005 Authors: Jose R. Title: Bliss and Damnation. Description: Type of work : Book Chapter Extent : 11 p.. Extent: 11 p..
    2005 Authors: Jose R. Title: A Shelf of Our Own : Creative Writing and Australian Literature. Description: Type of work : Article Extent : 5 p.. Extent: 5 p..
    2005 Authors: Jose R. Title: Original face. Description: Type of work : Novel Extent : 308 pages; 21 cm.. Extent: 308 pages; 21 cm..
    2002 Authors: Jose R. Title: Black sheep : journey to Borroloola. Description: N/A. Extent: N/A.
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  • 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 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Silence, Shamans and Traumatic Haunting: A Novel and Accompanying Exegesis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Matthew James Hooton
    2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Music in The Life and Work of Patrick White Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Vincent Patrick Plush
    2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor This Old Man and An Act of Reading and Writing. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jonathan Mark Zweck
    2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor "Horatio Dawn" and "Invisibly Somewhere between the Two Clauses" Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jeffrey James Errington
    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
    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 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Writing the Sixties: Stardust and Golden Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Prof Douglas McEachern
    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
    2006 - 2009 External Supervisor 'Disquiet' Novella and Screenplay: Adaptation and Creative Hybridity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Julia Leigh
    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
    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 - 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 - 2009 Co-Supervisor Form in Fiction: The Development of 'I Dream of Magda' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Stefan Lashchuk
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  • 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
  • Position: Adjunct Professor, School of Humanities
  • Email: nicholas.jose@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier
  • Org Unit: English and Creative Writing
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