Dennis Haskell

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Dennis Haskell
BornDennis Haskell
1948
Sydney, New South Wales
OccupationEmeritus Professor/Senior Honorary Research Fellow
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralian
EducationPhD in English Literature
Alma mater University of Sydney
Notable awardsASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature): A.A. Phillips Award, 2011
Years active1977-

Dennis Haskell (born 1948) is an Australian poet, critic and academic.

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Life and work

Haskell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of NSW before completing a PhD in Literature at the University of Sydney. [1]

Haskell began teaching English in 1973 in Sydney before moving to Perth in 1984. [2] He is currently an Emeritus Professor/Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. [1] His keys areas of research are: 1) Australian Literature, especially Twentieth Century and Contemporary Australian Literature; 2) Poetry from the Medieval period to the present; 3) Creative Writing; 4) South-east Asian Writing in English; 5) Literary Modernism (1890-1939); 6) Modernism and after; and 7) Post-colonial. [1]

Haskell co-edited the literary magazine Westerly from 1985 to 2009. He is now the director of the Westerly Centre at the University of Western Australia. [3] He was chair of the Australia Council's Literature Board from 2009 to 2011. [2]

Apart from writing his own poetry, Haskell has produced a number of critical studies of the works of Australian poets such as Bruce Dawe and Kenneth Slessor.

In 2011 Haskell was awarded the ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature): A.A. Phillips Award for his 'long period of excellence in the editing of Westerly'. [2]

Awards

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Poetry collections

Critical studies

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References

  1. 1 2 3 University of Western Australia - Dennis Haskell
  2. 1 2 3 Austlit - Dennis Haskell
  3. ↑ "Westerly Centre committee members". University of WA. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
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