Emmett Stinson is a Lecturer in Literary Cultures in the School of Humanities in the College of Arts, Law, and Education.

Biography

Emmett Stinson completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne. He has previously held positions as a Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Melbourne, a Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at University of Newcastle, and a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. He is a literary scholar, a creative writer, and an expert on the global publishing industry. He was a member of Senator Kim Carr's federal Book Industry Strategy Group. He co-founded and was President of the Small Press Network--the Australian advocacy body for independent publishers, which is housed in the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing, and Ideas. He co-founded the Independent Publishing Conference and established a series on publishing at Monash University Publishing. He won the Melbourne Age Short Story Award, and his book of short stories, Known Unknowns, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. He was a CI on the ARC Discovery Project, 'New Tastemakers and Australia's Post-Digital Literary Culture'. He is currently working on a monograph on the late novels of Gerald Murnane.

Career summary

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Melbourne, 2014. Thesis: Avant-Garde Satires of the Avant-Garde
• MA, University of Adelaide, 2005. Thesis: Struggles of the Unconscious (stories).
• BA/Hons, Georgetown University, 2000. Thesis: Poetry and Economics in Ezra Pound’s Cantos and William Carlos Williams’ Paterson.

Memberships

Other

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Administrative expertise

Emmett has broad administration experience in universities, the arts sector, and government. He received a Faculty Award for Collaboration Excellence in relation to his work in redesigning the BA at the University of Newcastle. He served as Head of Program of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne in 2013. He was a founder, board member, and chair of the Small Press Network from 2007 to 2013, and also sat on the board of the Geelong Word for Word Festival from 2020-21. He was a member of the federal Book Industry Strategy Group, and also consulted on tertiary training as part of the Book Industry Collaborative Council.

Teaching

Teaching expertise

Emmett has taught literature, creative writing, professional writing, and editing and publishing at undergraduate, honours, and postgraduate levels. He coordinates the third-year English subject Literary Cultures (HEN319).