Dr Simon Cooper
Senior Lecturer, Communications and Writing
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26384 or +61 3 512 26384 | |
| Fax: | +61 3 990 26359 or +61 3 512 26359 | |
| Office: | 1E 221, Gippsland Campus | |
| Email: | simon.cooper@monash.edu |
Biography
Dr Simon Cooper joined SAMSS in 2000 after teaching at Monash Clayton and Victoria University. He is on the editorial board of Arena Journal and contributes a regular column to Arena Magazine.
Research interests
Recent publications
- (2010) ‘Questions concerning Technoculture’ Science as Culture, Volume 19, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 255 – 258
- (2009) Thoughts of Murdoch on the ABC Arena Magazine 99, p54(2)
- (2008) ‘Regulating Hybrid Monsters? The Limits of Latour and Actor-Network Theory’ in Arena Journal pp. 305-330
- (2008) ‘Graphic Implosion: Politics, Time, and Value in Post-9/11 Comics,’ Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson in Literature after 9/11 ed. Ann Keniston, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Routledge. pp. 60-81
- (2008) ‘Nothing Left but Sinners and Victims’ Arena Magazine 94: p54(2)
- (2008) ‘Disintegration’, catalogue essay for exhibition by sculptor Robbie Rowlands
- (2008) The problem lies elsewhere: tales of repression in the recent fiction of Ian McEwan and Martin Amis. Arena Magazine 93: p54(2)
- (2007) ‘Question-Time: modalities of knowledge in an information culture’, Southern Review 40(2) pp. 1-4 with P. Atkinson & S. Yell
- (2007) ‘Academic Darwinism: the logical end of the Dawkins era’, Arena Journal 28 pp. 107-117
- (2007) Trusted Information Sources’, Complimentary Health Practice Review, 12 (2), pp. 120-138 with A. Robinson
Teaching
Classes taught by Simon include:
- Media Studies
- Screen studies
- Contemporary Fiction
- Experimental Writing
- Media, Social Relations and Power
Expert media commentary
- 2010 “Knowledge Economy at what Cost?” The Age February 15
- 2008 ‘Are the Universities in Crisis’, public discussion sponsored by Arena, the Association for the Public University and the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy. Speakers Simon Cooper and Paul Mees.
- 2008 ABC Radio National Book Show 5 February 2008 - William Gibson's Spook Country (review)
- 2008 ABC Radio National Book Show 9 October 2007 - The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (review)
Postgraduate supervision
Simon is Currently supervising 3 PhD students in the areas of:
- contemporary fiction
- memoir
- autobiography and new media