Cosgrove, Shady E. Associate Professor, Creative Writing
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Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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School of the Arts, English and Media
Overview
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Dr Shady Cosgrove is a novelist and academic, with research interests in prose fiction and narratology. Her most recent novel, What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador Australia, 2013), chronicles the lives of nine people trapped in the Andes after an avalanche. Unbeknownst to them, all of the characters are linked by Argentina's Dirty War. The work explores multiple point of view schemas and themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. Shady's memoir She Played Elvis was published by Allen and Unwin in 2009, after being shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Literary Prize. The work chronicles Shady's pilgrimage across America to Graceland to honour the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and explores the themes of family, loss and belonging. Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories as well as Spineless Wonders publications like Flashing the Square, Small Wonder and Out of Place. She regularly presents at the Australasian Association of Writing Programs annual conference and is a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.
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Shady Cosgrove is finishing her novel FREEFALL about a group of squatters in New York City who try to live 'outside' of money. Her 2013 novel What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador Australia) chronicles the lives of nine people trapped in the Andes after an avalanche, and explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. In 2007, her creative non-fiction manuscript 'She Played Elvis' about a pilgrimage across America was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Prize and subsequently published by Allen and Unwin. Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories, and Spineless Wonders publications.
Shady has a background in journalism – she worked for John Fairfax Holdings at the Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury, and covered the Sydney Olympic Games. She graduated from Vassar College, New York (1996) with departmental and general honours in Women Studies and English before completing her doctorate at the Australian National University in 2002. She is also a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.
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Graduate Advising Relationship
Degree Research Title Advisee Doctor of Philosophy We Need To Talk About Mother: Exploring the ethics of representing 'bad' mothers through feminist theory and fiction Doctor of Creative Arts The Sand, A Novel Hindrum, Cameron Doctor of Philosophy We Are We: The First Person Plural, Ambiguity and Theme Scrivenor, Hayley Doctor of Creative Arts The Horse-Human Bond in Literature: Healing Metaphors and Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse. Kroll, Jeri Doctor of Philosophy 'The plants may use the meter of eternity. We do not know': An Enquiry into Environment in Australian Science and Speculative Fiction. Barber, Tess Doctor of Philosophy Vox Agonium : The Voice of the Victim in Crime Fiction Narrative Barton, Naomi Doctor of Philosophy But wait theres more: counter-mapping place to disrupt local histories Saunders, Jen
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- Shady Cosgrove
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Research Overview
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Shady Cosgrove is finishing her novel FREEFALL about a group of squatters in New York City who try to live 'outside' of money. Her 2013 novel What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador Australia) chronicles the lives of nine people trapped in the Andes after an avalanche, and explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. In 2007, her creative non-fiction manuscript 'She Played Elvis' about a pilgrimage across America was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Prize and subsequently published by Allen and Unwin. Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories, and Spineless Wonders publications.
Shady has a background in journalism – she worked for John Fairfax Holdings at the Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury, and covered the Sydney Olympic Games. She graduated from Vassar College, New York (1996) with departmental and general honours in Women Studies and English before completing her doctorate at the Australian National University in 2002. She is also a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.
Affiliation
Member Of
Publications
Selected Publications
Supervision
Advisees
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Graduate Advising Relationship
Degree Research Title Advisee Doctor of Philosophy We Need To Talk About Mother: Exploring the ethics of representing 'bad' mothers through feminist theory and fiction Doctor of Creative Arts The Sand, A Novel Hindrum, Cameron Doctor of Philosophy We Are We: The First Person Plural, Ambiguity and Theme Scrivenor, Hayley Doctor of Creative Arts The Horse-Human Bond in Literature: Healing Metaphors and Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse. Kroll, Jeri Doctor of Philosophy 'The plants may use the meter of eternity. We do not know': An Enquiry into Environment in Australian Science and Speculative Fiction. Barber, Tess Doctor of Philosophy Vox Agonium : The Voice of the Victim in Crime Fiction Narrative Barton, Naomi Doctor of Philosophy But wait theres more: counter-mapping place to disrupt local histories Saunders, Jen
Contact
Full Name
- Shady Cosgrove
