Professor Ivor Indyk

Professor Ivor Indyk

WHITLAM CHAIR,
Writing and Society Research Centre

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of London

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Writing and Society Research Centre

Contact

Email:I.Indyk@uws.edu.au
Extension:6350
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Location:3.G.44
Bankstown
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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Poland, L. and Indyk, I. (2010), 'Rejected by America? Some Tensions in Australian-American Literary Relations', Reading Across the Pacific: Australia - United States Intellectual Histories, Sydney University Press 9781920899660.
  • Indyk, I. (2009), 'Magical Numbers', Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch, and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press 9781920899455.
  • Indyk, I. (2006), 'The Status of a Colonial: Like that of a Jew', On the Cultural Cringe. MUP Masterworks no 6, Melbourne University Publishing .
  • Indyk, I. (2004), 'Imants Tillers Expressionism', Transmissions: From Here and There. Works by Imants Tillers, Monash University Museum of Art 0975111027.
  • Indyk, I. (2004), 'Hochzeit der Elemente', Hochzeit der Elemente: Zeitgenossische Australische Dichtung, DuMont Verlag 3832178791.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Australian Indigenous Storytelling: A critical study of the way Aboriginal stories are being told in Australia today
Years:2013-01-01 - 2015-12-31
ID:P00020977
UWS Researchers:Alexis Wright and Ivor Indyk
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Australian literary publishing and its economies 1965-1995
Years:2007-01-01 - 2010-06-30
ID:P0015127
UWS Researchers:Ivor Indyk and Louise Poland
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Western Sydney Writing Project
Years:2006-07-01 - 2007-06-30
ID:P0015253
UWS Researchers:Ivor Indyk
Funding:
  • NSW Ministry for the Arts
Title:Australia-China Literary Translation Project
Years:2008-10-01 - 2009-12-31
ID:P00016379
UWS Researchers:Gail Jones, Nicholas Jose and Ivor Indyk
Funding:
  • Australia Council for the Arts
Title:Chinese Translation and Publishing Project: Visit by Shanghai Publisher Peng Lun
Years:2009-02-01 - 2009-12-28
ID:P00016669
UWS Researchers:Ivor Indyk, Nicholas Jose and Gail Jones
Funding:
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Title:Research project into the effectiveness, both critical and financial, of Literature Board subsidies to Australian publishers over the 10 years 1995-2005
Years:2009-05-11 - 2010-01-31
ID:P00017080
UWS Researchers:Ivor Indyk and Louise Poland
Funding:
  • Australia Council for the Arts

Supervision

Professor Indyk is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:A New Life's Purpose: Place and Popularity of Self Help Books in Australian Literary Culture
Field of Research:
Title:Transcendence, Transgression and Perversion
Field of Research:
Title:Love Animals: Contemporary Literature and the Creaturely (A Novel and Exegesis)
Field of Research:
Title:At the End of the Day
Field of Research:
Title:?Half-Wild? (Creative) Prose Forms and Poetic Content: Writing between Genre (Exegesis)
Field of Research:
Title:Free Verse, Closed Forms and the Lyrical Poet
Field of Research:
Title: Double Lives: Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira
Field of Research:CREATIVE ARTS
Title:In Buenos Aires - Adventures with Language and Literature
Field of Research:
Title:Merchant's House
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:The Secular Wood: Literary Criticism in the Public Sphere
Field of Research:LITERATURE
Thesis:The Secular Wood: Literary Criticism in the Public Sphere
Title:"At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied": The Prose Fictional Metaphysics of W. G. Sebald
Field of Research:LITERATURE
Thesis:<p> <i>"At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied"</i>: The Prose Fictional Metaphysics of W. G. Sebald</p>

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