Emeritus Professor Philip Mead

Emeritus Professor Philip Mead is the inaugural visiting fellow at the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Professor Mead was the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia, a position he held from 2009 until 2018. He is a distinguished scholar and poet and was the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, 2015–2016. A strong and continuing advocate for Australian literary studies, his research is conducted at the intersections of national and transnational literary studies, cultural history and theory, poetics, literary education, literary regionalism, and digital humanities.

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