Jeri Kroll
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Hurricanes, Snakes and Landlords: Class exploitation and the 'suburban dream' of Italians in Australia
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2008-11)Central to the social processes and economic development of Australia and many other western countries during the 1950s and early 1960s was the realisation of the 'suburban dream'. Considering the perspective of Italian ... -
Recent Perceptions of Rural Australia in Italian and Italian Australian Narrative
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2008-11)Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas. ... -
Uneasy Bedfellows: Assessing the creative thesis and its exegesis
(The Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2009-10)Since creative writing is being formalised in coherent programs and assessment methods are under scrutiny, we must mediate the problematic relationship between this new discipline and the academy more effectively. Honours ... -
Imagination and Marketability: What do writers do for a living?
(The Australian Association of Writing Programs, 1998-04)If recent statistics are reliable, most Australian writers pursue their craft as a vocation, not as a means to a living wage. These statistics might not dampen the enthusiasm of students who might be years away from facing ... -
Living on the Edge: Creative writers in higher education
(The Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2010-04)This paper focuses on creative writing and considers how we might write across and beyond boundaries between genres, between disciplines and between audiences. Using principles from action research and practice-led research ... -
The supervisor as practice-led coach and trainer: getting creative writing doctoral candidates across the finish line
(Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2009-10)Multitasking supervisor-trainers who oversee the hybrid creative writing thesis have a role that is complicated by the multiplicity of theoretical and structural pathways available to shape the hybrid thesis. The dialectical ... -
Honouring Students: What can a successful creative writing honours program offer?
(The Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2000-10)This paper explores the turf of creative writing honours students. When they begin, do honours students have a clear idea of what they want? For example, how ready are they to be independent and to be judged by professional ... -
A or C: Can we assess creative work fairly?
(Australian Association of Writing Programs, 1997-04)Assessment is of prime concern to students and their teachers. Marks affect students psychologically; more to the point, in our 'clever country,' students know that what appears on their transcript might determine whether ... -
From the Mother Workshops: A mixed genre project
(The Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2000-04)The author's observations of her mother's cremation. -
Creative Writing as Research and the Dilemma of Accreditation: How do we prove the value of what we do?
(The Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2002-04)What kind of cultural capital is writing? This paper explores the complexities of this situation, including the conundrum of research equivalence, canvasses the responses to this dilemma from other arts disciplines, and ... -
Final Copy
(Social Alternatives, 2005)
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