Graeme Harper is an internationally published fiction writer, scriptwriter, professor and cultural critic, who writes under his own name and under the pseudonym Brooke Biaz. To date, he has published more than 20 books and over 140 articles and chapters. His awards include the Australian National Book Council Award and the Premier’s Award, among others, and scholarships and fellowships from the ORS, The British Academy, AHRC, BBC, Emory University, the University of Texas Medical Branch and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory ofCreative Writing, Co-Editor of the journal Studies in European Cinema and Associate Editor of the Creative Industries Journal. As creative writer and as cultural critic, he is a regular international reader/speaker.
Academic
Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS FRSA FAIM is the Dean of the Honors College at Oakland University where he directs the Michigan Center for Undergraduate Research and the Center for Undergraduate Research Leadership. He completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1997. National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at Bangor University/University of Wales, Bangor. He has also been an Honorary Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the USA and Australia, and is currently Honorary Research Professor at the University of Bedfordshire. He is a Panel Member of Great Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council. He holds dual British and Australian citizenship. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and the Royal Society of Medicine. He is a former member of the European Commission Culture and Education Directorate Panel of Experts, and currently serves as the Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University in Michigan.
2011: Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy.
2011: Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography.
2010: On Creative Writing.
2009: Authors at Work: the Creative Environment.
2009: Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview.
2008: Creative Writing Guidebook.
2006: The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film.
2006: Teaching Creative Writing.
2005: Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema.
2002: Comedy Fantasy and Colonialism.
2001: Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration.
Advocate
As Director of the National Institute he campaigns for the development of creative practice-led research, especially in Creative Writing, and for acknowledging the critical understanding contained in creative practice. He is a strong supporter of creativity in university education, and was founding Director of the UK's Creative Campus campaign and is current Chair of the worldwide "Creative Universities" initiative.
