Projects & news

I like to wander around and talk to people, and this leads to some exciting collaborations and opportunities. These are some of the current projects that I am involved with.

unique writers group

I convene the group History and Empire on Screen Writers Workshop for Screenwriters to explore how we write non-white protagonists in historical drama set in Britain. With expert lectures from historians and other scholars. 

This came about after I was awarded the Collaborative Learning in the Arts and Social Humanities (CLASH) Fellowship for Public Engagement.

scribe

I am also a Scribe, part of Leisa Shelton/Fragment 31's innovative live writing project. I was a Scribe at Spill Festival of Performance, Ipswich, 2016 and hope to participate in Scribe in Berlin in 2018. 

Below is an image of a Scribe at work at Spill 2016. Photo credit Guido Mencari.

Grants

And I am a recipient of the King’s Global Research Grant and will travel to Austraila in April 2018 to undertake research at Purai Global and Indigenous Diaspora Research Centre, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

teaching, research and ACADEMIA

I am a Lecturer in Screenwriting at University of Greenwich and also at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Sometimes I teach in the Department of English at King’s College London and I also taught Screenwriting to students in the School of Dentistry at King’s as part of the Clinical Humanities pilot. Courses I have taught on at King's include Writing London, Australian Literature and Film and Ideas of Nation.

I also work as a Knowledge Exchange Associate for the Cultural Institute at King’s. In this role I facilitate collaborations between academics and artists and develop public engagement projects.

Conferences

I love conferences! I love wandering around and talking to people and the unique and unexpected ideas that arise in the conference environment. In 2017-18 I spoke at five conferences:

Bridging Gaps: Where is the Film Scholar in Hollywood Filmmaking? Center for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), USC, Los Angeles

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) 2017 Conference, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina

Redefining Australia and New Zealand, Polish Association of Australian and New Zealand Studies, University of Opole, Poland

2017 Screenwriting Research Network Conference in Association with New Zealand Film Commission and New Zealand Writers Guild, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand

2018 European Association of Australian Studies (EASA) Biennial Conference, Universitat de Barcelona