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Lobb, Joshua 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 His novel, Remission, won the LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2014, as well as two residential fellowships at Varuna, the Writers House.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

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 Philosophy Narrative Accounts of Self-Concept Among Creative Industries Entrepreneurs Sharpe, David
    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
    Doctor of Philosophy The representation of nonhuman animals in Australian children's and young adult literature Clark, Ellanor

Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in English Literature, 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

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 Philosophy Narrative Accounts of Self-Concept Among Creative Industries Entrepreneurs Sharpe, David
    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
    Doctor of Philosophy The representation of nonhuman animals in Australian children's and young adult literature Clark, Ellanor

Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in English Literature, 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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