Dr David Musgrave

Biography

Ba (Hons) first class from the University of Sydney (1991) and PhD from the University of Sydney 1997, Dissertation "Figurations of the Grotesque in Menippean Satire"

Author of four books of poetry: To Thalia (Five Islands, 2004), On Reflection (Interactive, 2005), Watermark (Picaro, 2006), Phantom Limb (2010) and Concrete Tuesday (2011). To Thalia was commended for the Anne Elder Award and Phantom Limb was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Prize and the Adelaide Festival John Bray Poetry Prizes and was awarded the Grace leven Prize for Poetry in 2011.

Author of one novel, Glissando: A Melodrama (Sleepers 2010), which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing.

Individual poems have either won or been shortlisted for the following prizes: The Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, The Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, The Broadway (Poets Union) Poetry Prize, The Sidney Nolan Gallery Poetry Prize, The Henry Lawson Poetry Prize, The FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Prize, The Alec Bolton Poetry Prize and The Somerset Poetry Prize.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Sydney, 1998
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney, 1991

Research

Research keywords

• Australian Poetry
• David Ireland
• John Kinsella
• Les Murray
• Menippean Satire
• Norman Lindsay
• Patrick White

Research expertise

I am currently researching contemporary Australian poetry. I have published on modern Australian novelists such as Patrick White, David Ireland and Norman Lindsay. I have also published on Samuel Beckett. A particular area of focus is the grotesque in art and literature as well as satire, specifically Menippean satire.

Languages

• French
• Latin
• Russian
• Spanish

Fields of Research

Memberships

Australian Council Grant

• Recipient - New Work grant

Body relevant to professional practice.

• Member - Poets Union Inc
• Member - Australian Poetry Limited
• Member - Australian Society of Authors
• Member - Australian Publishers Association

Editorial Board.

• Editor - Puncher & Wattmann Pty Ltd

Appointments

Awards

Recognition.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Australian Poetry
• Creative Writing
• Grotesque
• Menippean Satire
• Romantic Literature
• Satire
• Victorian Literature

Teaching expertise

I currently teach Creative Writing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also teach Romantic Literature and Victorian Literature. I have experience in teaching Australian Literature, Modernism, Literary Theory, Analytical Reading and Writing Skills, Rhetorical Studies, Gothic Fiction and contemporary Australian Poetry.