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Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, and Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. Her main research interest is the relationship between what Pierre Bourdieu termed 'the field of cultural production'—the broad sphere of art—and the social domain, including the political and sociocultural, the practical and the economic, the local and the global. Her current major projects investigate aspects of creativity, and creative production, and the creative producer, and she is supported in this by the ARC Discovery projects Working the Field: Creative Graduates in Australia and China (DP150101477), and So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries (DP160101440).
Academics working in the creative field typically have their own creative practice, and Jen's works include lyric and prose poetry, short fictions, and artist books. She is the holder of the inaugural ACT Poet of the Year Award, as well as many other literary awards. She is also the ACT editor for the Australian Book Review's States of Poetry mini-anthologies (2015–2017), chair of the NSW Premier's Literary Award (Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry), and co-editor for the Australasian Association of Writing Program's literary journal, Meniscus.
Jen's recent works include the scholarly volumes Researching Creative Writing (Frontinus, 2015), Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (with Caroline Turner; Manchester UP, 2016); and the Oxford University Press bibliography entry for Pierre Bourdieu (2017). Her recent volumes of poetry include Stolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (Mark Time Press, 2015), Sentences from the Archive (Recent Work Press, 2016), and (with Paul Hetherington), the poetry/photography volume Watching the World (Blemish Books, 2015). With Paul Hetherington, she is also editor of the bilingual (Chinese/Australian) anthology of poetry, Open Windonws: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2016); and of the academic journal Axon: Creative Explorations.
Education/Academic qualification
Master, Queensland University of Technology
PhD, University of Technology Sydney
PhD, Central Queensland University
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Projects 2003 2018
Australian Writing Programs Network (AWPN)
WEBB, J., BATTYE, G., Brien, D. L. & Bruns, A.
Australian Learning and Teaching Council
10/11/06 → …
Project: Other
So what do you do?: tracking creative graduate outcomes in Australia's Creative and Cultural Industries, with comparison to the UK
WEBB, J., BROOK, S., Comunian, R., Corcoran, J., LEWIS, P. & faggian, A.
31/03/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Other
Working the Field: Creative Graduates in Australia and China-via Monash
WEBB, J., BROOK, S. & Shillian, S.
5/02/15 → 5/02/18
Project: Other
Understanding Creative Excellence: a case study in poetry
WEBB, J., Biggs, M., Brophy, K. & MAGEE, P.
1/01/13 → 31/12/16
Project: Other
Examination of Doctoral Degrees in Creative Arts: process, practice and standards
Australian Learning and Teaching Council
13/12/10 → 30/06/12
Project: Other
Research Output 1997 2018
"Aeneas escaping Troy" and "On the Picket Line"
WEBB, J. Mar 2018 2 p.Australia : Not Very Quiet: Journal for Women's PoetryResearch output: Other contribution
Aeneas
Prose Poem
Alice
WEBB, J. 16 Sep 2018 1 p.Canberra : Not Very Quiet: Journal for Women's PoetryResearch output: Other contribution
File
Names
Air
Naming
Rabbit
Hole
Always Becoming: A life in poetry
WEBB, J. & Paterson, A. 2018 New Zealand Poetry: Yearbook 2018. Palmerston North: Massey University, Vol. 2018, p. 52-66 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
poetry
writer
creativity
New Zealand
conversation
Creativity In Context: How To Make A Poet
WEBB, J. 2018 Canberra: Recent Work Press. 62 p. (Pragmatics of Art; vol. 3)Research output: Book/Report › Other
Creativity
Poet
Art
Excellence
Poetry
Disordered eating: Food and Identity Formation
WEBB, J. & Kroll, J. 2018 The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food. Brien, D. L. & Piatti_Farnell, L. (eds.). New York and London: Routledge, p. 84-92 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Food
Identity Formation
Eating Disorders
Reader
Anorexia