Jen Webb

Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, and Dean, Graduate Researh Office. She was the inaugural director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, and remains a core member of that Centre.

 

 

Her main research interest is the relationship between what Pierre Bourdieu termed 'the field of cultural production'—the broad sphere of creative practice—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 has been supported in this by several ARC Discovery projects, the most recent of which is So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries (DP160101440).

 

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 Moving Targets (RWP 2018). She produced all the photographs for a collaborative poetry/photography volume, with Paul Hetherington: 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.