Emeritus Professor Nicholas Jose

Emeritus Professor, School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Career
Publications
Supervision
Professional Activities
Contact

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

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
1974 - 1978	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	DPhil
1970 - 1973	Australian National University	Australia	BA Honours

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. DOI
2018	Jose, N. (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. DOI
2015	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. DOI Scopus633 WoS582
2013	Jose, R. (2013). Deconstructing the dumpling: Australia, China, lived connections. Journal of Australian Studies, 37(1), 116-129. DOI
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. DOI Scopus440
2009	Schoenauer, M. (2009). Editorial introduction. Evolutionary Computation, 17(2), III. DOI
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. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
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.
1992	Jose, N. (1992). Not seeing the trees for the wood. Asian Studies Review, 16(2), 101-102. DOI
1980	Jose, N. (1980). Samson agonistes: The play turned upside down. Essays in Criticism, 30(2), 124-150. DOI Scopus2

Books

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

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

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2022	Jose, N. (2022). Australia. In D. Damrosch (Ed.), Literature: A World History (Vol. 4, First ed., pp. 1191-1211). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
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. DOI
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.
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.
2019	Jose, R. N., & Song, X. (2019). Introduction. In X. Song, & R. N. Jose (Eds.), Everything Changes Australian Writers and China: a Transcultural Anthology (1st ed., pp. 1-10). Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing. DOI
2019	Jose, R. N., & Song, X. (2019). Introduction. In X. Song, & R. N. Jose (Eds.), Everything Changes Australian Writers and China: a Transcultural Anthology (1st ed., pp. 1-10). Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing. DOI
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.
2018	Jose, N. (2018). Transcultural Affinities: In Praise of Wang Zuoliang. In Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption (pp. 65-80). Springer Singapore. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI

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 RN. 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 RN. Title: Feathers or Lead. 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 RN. Title: In the Swash Zone: Harriet Chandler by Moya Costello. 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. DOI
2009	Authors: Jose R. Title: Introduction. Description: Type of work : Book Chapter Extent : 6 p.. Extent: 6 pages. DOI
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.

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

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

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

Position: Emeritus Professor, School of Humanities
Email: nicholas.jose@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Napier
Org Unit: English, Creative Writing

Emeritus Professor Nicholas Jose

Appointments

Education

Journals

Books

Book Chapters

Conference Papers

Conference Items

Original Creative Works

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Board Memberships

Committee Memberships

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