Arts Faculty News

Chloe Brien

The Monash poetry prize for undergraduate students has been awarded to Chloe Brien for her quirky and sensuous love poem Salivary.

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Professor Terry Flew

The Communications and Media Studies Program in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies hosted a highly successful conference at the Caulfield and Berwick campuses from 11-13 August. Opened by the Dean, Professor Rae Frances, it featured visiting Professors from Seoul National University, Hong Kong Baptist University and Communication University of China, continuing a formal research relationship between ECPS and these institutions. Professor Terry Flew (QUT, pictured) and Associate Professors Ramaswami Harindranath (Uni of Melb) and Robin Gerster (Monash) also delivered high quality key note presentations.

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Academy’s first performance for the year

An Honours graduate ensemble from Monash University’s Academy of Performing Arts has plunged into the richness of the literary classics for their first show for 2008.

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Former Monash Student Wins Academy Award

Monash Arts graduate, Eva Orner has won an Academy Award for her role as producer of 2008’s Best Feature Documentary film, Taxi to the Dark Side.

Eva was one of only two Australians nominated for an Oscar and beat out Michael Moore, who was favourite to take out the Best Documentary category for his film, Sicko.

Orner completed her Monash degree in 1993 and has been producing documentaries in New York for the past three years after making a name for herself as an independent producer in Melbourne on shows such as Blue Heelers.

‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ follows Carlotta Gall, a reporter for the New York Times, as she investigates the 2002 death of 22 year old Afghan taxi driver, Dilawar whist in detention at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Taxi to the Dark Side also examines America’s policy on torture and interrogation in general.

His death was officially declared by the US military to be from natural causes but Gall uncovers otherwise.

Taxi to the Dark Side goes on to examine America’s policy on torture and interrogation in general, specifically the CIA’s use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation.

Eva previously won a Logie Award for SBS in 1995 for her first film, Untold Desires.

Bruce Beresford, Prof Bruce Steele and Prof Clive Probyn

Two Monash University academics have completed a 14-year project to publish the complete works of Henry Handel Richardson (1870 -1946) with a new edition of her epic trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

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"Our Country's Good"

Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally, Our Country’s Good demonstrates the power of the play to transform lives, even those considered unredeemable.

When: October 10th – October 14th

Where: Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran

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Adib Khan

Embracing intellectual freedom without trepidation is how Adib Khan consistently succeeds in his career as an author.

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The People behind Verge 2006

Monash University’s School of English, Communications and Performance studies has once again showcased its depth of creative writing talent at the launch of the short story anthology Verge: 2006

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Assoc. Prof. B. Attwood and Dr M. Ackland

Dr Michael Ackland, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, and Associate Professor Bain Attwood, School of Historical Studies have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Photo of Dr Patrick Spedding

Dr Patrick Spedding, from Monash University’s School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, has been awarded the 2004-05 Modern Language Association of America Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography.

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