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Lobb, Joshua M. Dr

Senior Lecturer

  • Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
  • School of the Arts, English and Media

Top Publications

Research Overview

  • Dr Joshua Lobb is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong. His stories have appeared in The Bridport Prize Anthology, Best Australian Stories, Animal Studies Journal, Text and Southerly. His novel, Remission, won the LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2014, as well as two residential fellowships at Varuna, the Writers House. His ‘novel in stories’ about grief and climate change, The Flight of Birds (2019) is published by Sydney University Press. He is also part of the multi-authored project, 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019). Joshua holds a PhD on the novel form from UNSW and has published on Creative Writing pedagogy and narrative theory.

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article

    Year Title
    2019
    Mixed Doubles: Collaborative writing and peripheral strategies, and some Friendly Serve-Volley
    Published In
    RUUKU: Studies in Artistic Research
    2019
    Relational ethics: writing about birds; writing about humans
    Published In
    TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
    2013
    I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
    Published In
    Social Alternatives

  • Book

    Year Title
    2019
    100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder
    Publisher
    Australia: Open Humanities Press

  • Chapter

    Year Title
    2019
    In the Air: whipbird/human/koel
    Published In
    100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder.
    Publisher
    United Kingdom
    2010
    Degrees of relation: Iris Murdoch and A. S. Byatt: a narratological comparison
    Published In
    Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays
    Publisher
    Stuttgart, Germany

  • Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2015
    Writing the (Othered) Self: Cultural Exchange and Creative Writing Pedagogy
    Published In
    20th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Writing the Ghost Train: rewriting, remaking and rediscovering
    2012
    'They don’t flinch’: Creative Writing/Critical Theory, Pedagogy/Students
    Published In
    The Encounters: Place, Situation, Context Papers. The Refereed Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs
    2010
    Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies to Support Creative Writing about Real Spaces
    Published In
    Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
    2009
    Deferring the 'main' point: Teaching 'narrative desire' as an alternative creative practice
    Published In
    Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
    2008
    But if the Author is Dead, what are we doing here? Teaching Critical Theory in a Creative Writing Program
    Published In
    Creativity and Uncertainty: The Refereed Proceedings of 13th Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
    2007
    The Tale of Pater Rabbit: a case study in story-sense reasoning
    Published In
    Intelligent Narrative Technologies: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium

  • Other Publications

    Year Title
    2020
    It All
    2019
    Four Views of the Mountain
    2019
    The Flight of Birds: A novel in twelve stories
    2015
    What he heard
    2014
    Outside
    2014
    The Flight of Birds
    2012
    Cubicles
    2010
    I forgot my program so I went to get it back or 101 Reasons

Potential Supervision Topics

  • Environmental Humanities and Writing
    Animal Studies and Writing
    Narrative Theory
    Theories of the novel, in particular: the function of voice, the representation of time, the structure of narrative
    The representation of space in narrative
    The representation of human-animal interactions in narrative
    Creative Writing Pedagogy: the interaction between theory and practice in a Creative Writing context

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Creative Arts Curated Fiction: Intersections of Truth and Voice in the Composition of a Contemporary Australian Novel Hindrum, Cameron
    Doctor of Philosophy Narrative Accounts of Self-Concept Among Creative Industries Entrepreneurs Sharpe, David
    Doctor of Creative Arts 'How to write a true war novel': A study of the typology and structure of war novels Maitland, Barry
    Doctor of Philosophy The Role of Idiosyncratic Metaphors in Self-Revelatory Poetry Bartlett, Ryan
    Doctor of Philosophy Renegotiating Plot: Feminist Applications of the Short Story Cycle Darragh, Emma
    Doctor of Philosophy Irony and Negation in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels Hannan, Michael

Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in English Literature, University of New South Wales, Laminations: the 'self-conscious realist' techniques of A. S. Byatt. A Narratological approach 1999 - 2004
  • B.A. in English Literature and Theatre and Film Studies, University of New South Wales, Honours: First Class 1992 - 1995

Top Publications

Research Overview

  • Dr Joshua Lobb is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong. His stories have appeared in The Bridport Prize Anthology, Best Australian Stories, Animal Studies Journal, Text and Southerly. His novel, Remission, won the LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2014, as well as two residential fellowships at Varuna, the Writers House. His ‘novel in stories’ about grief and climate change, The Flight of Birds (2019) is published by Sydney University Press. He is also part of the multi-authored project, 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019). Joshua holds a PhD on the novel form from UNSW and has published on Creative Writing pedagogy and narrative theory.

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article

    Year Title
    2019
    Mixed Doubles: Collaborative writing and peripheral strategies, and some Friendly Serve-Volley
    Published In
    RUUKU: Studies in Artistic Research
    2019
    Relational ethics: writing about birds; writing about humans
    Published In
    TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
    2013
    I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
    Published In
    Social Alternatives

  • Book

    Year Title
    2019
    100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder
    Publisher
    Australia: Open Humanities Press

  • Chapter

    Year Title
    2019
    In the Air: whipbird/human/koel
    Published In
    100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder.
    Publisher
    United Kingdom
    2010
    Degrees of relation: Iris Murdoch and A. S. Byatt: a narratological comparison
    Published In
    Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays
    Publisher
    Stuttgart, Germany

  • Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2015
    Writing the (Othered) Self: Cultural Exchange and Creative Writing Pedagogy
    Published In
    20th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Writing the Ghost Train: rewriting, remaking and rediscovering
    2012
    'They don’t flinch’: Creative Writing/Critical Theory, Pedagogy/Students
    Published In
    The Encounters: Place, Situation, Context Papers. The Refereed Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs
    2010
    Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies to Support Creative Writing about Real Spaces
    Published In
    Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
    2009
    Deferring the 'main' point: Teaching 'narrative desire' as an alternative creative practice
    Published In
    Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
    2008
    But if the Author is Dead, what are we doing here? Teaching Critical Theory in a Creative Writing Program
    Published In
    Creativity and Uncertainty: The Refereed Proceedings of 13th Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
    2007
    The Tale of Pater Rabbit: a case study in story-sense reasoning
    Published In
    Intelligent Narrative Technologies: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium

  • Other Publications

    Year Title
    2020
    It All
    2019
    Four Views of the Mountain
    2019
    The Flight of Birds: A novel in twelve stories
    2015
    What he heard
    2014
    Outside
    2014
    The Flight of Birds
    2012
    Cubicles
    2010
    I forgot my program so I went to get it back or 101 Reasons

Potential Supervision Topics

  • Environmental Humanities and Writing
    Animal Studies and Writing
    Narrative Theory
    Theories of the novel, in particular: the function of voice, the representation of time, the structure of narrative
    The representation of space in narrative
    The representation of human-animal interactions in narrative
    Creative Writing Pedagogy: the interaction between theory and practice in a Creative Writing context

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Creative Arts Curated Fiction: Intersections of Truth and Voice in the Composition of a Contemporary Australian Novel Hindrum, Cameron
    Doctor of Philosophy Narrative Accounts of Self-Concept Among Creative Industries Entrepreneurs Sharpe, David
    Doctor of Creative Arts 'How to write a true war novel': A study of the typology and structure of war novels Maitland, Barry
    Doctor of Philosophy The Role of Idiosyncratic Metaphors in Self-Revelatory Poetry Bartlett, Ryan
    Doctor of Philosophy Renegotiating Plot: Feminist Applications of the Short Story Cycle Darragh, Emma
    Doctor of Philosophy Irony and Negation in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels Hannan, Michael

Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in English Literature, University of New South Wales, Laminations: the 'self-conscious realist' techniques of A. S. Byatt. A Narratological approach 1999 - 2004
  • B.A. in English Literature and Theatre and Film Studies, University of New South Wales, Honours: First Class 1992 - 1995
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