SIALL WATERBRIGHT
Curriculum Vitae
QUALIFICATIONS
2019 (Commenced) Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University
Graphic Narrative and Critical Child Studies
Expected completion: 2023
2010 Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Creative Writing and Literary Studies
2010 Certificate III in Microbusiness Operations, MAX Talent
2005 Bachelor of Creative Industries Honours (First Class), QUT
Creative Writing and Cultural Studies (transfer from BLaws/Creative Writing)
1995 Bachelor of Arts, New College of Florida
General studies; women’s studies and fine arts (transfer from BSc/BVetSc, University of Queensland)
1994 Crisis Counselling & Rape Crisis Certificate,
Manatee Glens Mental Health Facility, Bradenton FL
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WRITING AWARDS
2020 Queensland Literary Awards Glendower Award: shortlisted
2017 Queensland Literary Awards Emerging Queensland Writer Award: shortlisted
2017 Peter Carey Short Story Award: shortlisted
2016 Varuna Residential Fellowship
2016 Westerly Writers’ Development: shortlisted
2011 Varuna Residential Fellowship
2008 Josephine Ulrick Special Prize for Excellence in Prose and Poetry
2008 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize: runner up
2008 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize: runner up
2007 Thomas Shapcott Manuscript Award: Highly Commended
2007 Val Vallis Award for unpublished poetry: Third
2004 Creative Writing Award, QUT
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RESEARCH GRANTS
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2011 Brisbane Community History Grant
$9 950 Food history collaborative research
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2010 QUT Research Grant Creative Writing and Literary Studies
$5 000 Creative writing student expectations and experiences study
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SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Graduate and University House Student Leadership Scholarship
Australian National University
2019–23 Australian Graduate Research Training Program Scholarship
Australian National University
2009 Write-up Scholarship QUT
2006–9 Vice Chancellor’s Initiative Scholarship, QUT
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2006–9 Australian Postgraduate Award, QUT
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2020-current: Australian National University
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Guest lecturer
GEND1001 Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies
GEND1002 Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
Tutor
GEND1001 Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies
GEND1002 Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
2012–current: University of Queensland
Instructor
WRIT1005 Craft of Academic Writing
WRIT2100/6100 Poetics
WRIT1110/6110 Narrative
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2017–current: University of New England
Convenor (T2 2023)
WRIT102 Genre and Storytelling
Teaching assistant (digital delivery)
ENCO100/WRIT101 The Craft of Academic Writing
WRIT102 Genre and Storytelling
WRIT303/503 Research in Writing
WRIT304/504 Writing Short Fiction
WRIT306/506 Writing for Work: Styles and Contexts
ENCO303/ENCO503 Research and Writing Across Disciplines
2006–2018: Queensland University of Technology
Lecturer (2016–18)
KWB310 Editing and Developing the Manuscript
KWB303 Writing and Publishing Industry
Convenor (2017)
KWB310 Editing and Developing the Manuscript
Guest Lecturer
KIB101 Introduction to Visual Communication
KWB209 Modern Times
Tutor
KKB101 and KKB102 Creative industries core units
KKB222 Interdisciplinarity in Practice
KWB104/403 Short Story
KIB101 Introduction to Visual Communications
KWB101 Introduction to Creative Writing
KKB009 Writing for Creative Industries
KKB010 Cultures and Creativity
Examiner BFA Creative Writing (Hons)
Principle Researcher
Creative Writing Student Expectations and Experiences
Research Consultant, Creative Industries
Curriculum Development: Digital Content Production Masters
Research Assistant, Creative Writing and Literature
American literature unit development
Australian literature unit development
Internationalisation
Creative Writing Programs
Sessional Academic Training Conference Instructor
Feedback and Feedforward: giving effective feedback
International School, International Student Support
KCB110 Introduction to Mass Communication
KCB102 Media and Society from Printing to Internet
KPB150 Foundation of Multi-Platform Production
Oodgeroo Unit, Indigenous Tutorial Support Scheme Student Support Teacher
2012–17: Griffith University
Convenor (2016)
3723HUM Popular Genres
Lecturer (2012–17)
3723HUM Popular Genres
Tutor (2012–17)
3109HUM Short Story Writing
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OTHER EMPLOYMENT
2010-2011: The Exchange (Communify)
Facilitator: Kelvin Grove Community Writing Group
2010-2011: Murri Watch and ANTaR QLD
Project Management
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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
2022 '"I wrote to become part of that discourse community":
Developing writerly identity and agency in an online writing course’
Wise, Beck, Simone Lyons and Siall Waterbright
TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
Digital Realism Special Issue 69: December 22
[refereed publication]
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2020 'Case-mix adjusted postanaesthesia care unit length of stay
and business intelligence dashboards
for feedback to anaesthetists'
Erich Schulz, Frank Phillips and Siall Waterbright
British Journal of Anaesthesia 125.6: 1079-1087
[refereed publication]
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REVIEWS
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2018 'Ryan Presley’s Terror Island'
Eyeline 89
2008 'Open Casket: Ecce Monstrum'
Media Culture Review
2008 'Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory by Helene Cixous'
Media Culture Review
2007 'Antonio Gramsci'
Media International Australia, 125, Nov 2007
2007 'Martini by Frank Moorhouse: Review'
Media Culture Review
2007 'Rebel Without a Cuba: Review of S. Fernandes’ Cuba Represent!'
Media Culture Review
2007 'On Translation by Paul Ricoeur'
Media Culture Review
2006 'Phallic Panic'
Media International Australia 123
2006 'Leaky Vessel: Film review of Kept and Dreamless'
Media Culture Review
2006 'Lost Ideals: Film review of Shin Sung-il is Lost'
Media Culture Review
2005 'Of Old Men and the Sea: Alan Gould’s The Past Completes Me'
Utopia 4
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POETRY
2014 'Fore Word' Westerly 59:1
2014 'Amphora' Australian Poetry Journal 3:2,
2014 'The Village' Cordite Poetry Review 45
2014 'The Bathers' Cordite Poetry Review 45
2014 'Dialectic' Cordite Poetry Review 45
2010 'Three Poems about Sacrifice' Perilous Adventures 10.2
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SHORT FICTION
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2009 'Foundation Story', Perilous Adventures 9.3
2008 'Toast', Island 115, Summer:107-9
2008 'The Textbook', Wet Ink, 13, Summer
2006 'Three Short Stories about Sleep' Utopia 3
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JOURNALISM/NONFICTION
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2005 Sexposed: The changing (?) face of the sex industry, Utopia 3
2004 Pink Packs a Punch: Sisters are doing it for everybody,
Scribble: Brisbane Writers Festival News
2004 Jay Walking: Interview with Jay Verney
Scribble: Brisbane Writers Festival News 1
1998 Feminism Calling Planet Fashion Philosophia 3
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CONFERENCES
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2020 CLOSURE Graphic Narrative International Summer School (online)
Kiel University
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2019 Panel presentation: Developing Academic Writing Self-efficacy through Writing About Writing
with Dr Beck Wise and Dr Simone Lyons, Australasian Association of Writing Programs
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2019 Panel presentation: Writing Culture and Comics. Australian Anthropology Society Conference
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2019 Panel presentation: Developing Academic Writing Self-efficacy through Writing About Writing
with Dr Beck Wise and Dr Simone Lyons, Australasian Association of Writing Programs
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2019 Panel presentation: Writing Culture and Comics. Australian Anthropology Society Conference
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2012 Presentation: Writing student expectations and experiences research
Teaching & Learning Conference, QUT
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2008 Performance: “Things that don’t exist for my mother”
Living Memory: Postgraduate Writing Conference, University of Sydney
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2007 Presentation (funded participant):
Making Something of Yourself (Metaphor and Metamorphosis)
Sylvia Plath Seventy-fifth Birthday Symposium, Oxford University
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2007 Presentation (funded participant)
“The F Word: Where does feminism belong in the curriculum?'
Teaching Contemporary Women’s Writing Conference
Brighton University
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PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS
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2014 Performance: Retort Experimenta: Speak to Me,
5th International Biennial of Media Art
2012 Installation: Wish you were here
collaboration with Urs Furrer, Seven With Another Five,
Brisbane Powerhouse
2007 Being There: collaboration with Clare Dyson
Tanzfabrik, Berlin & Judith Wright Centre, AU
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2021 Student Leadership Team member,
Australian National University Graduate House
2019-2020 Creative Practice Research Group Co-coordinator
2017 Poetry Editor, eTropic Magazine20
2007 Volunteer, Berlin International Literature Festival
2007 Aurealis Awards: Judge – Horror Panel
2006 Poetry subeditor, Utopia, QUT magazine
2005 Draft: collaboration between poets and fashion designers
Brisbane Writers Festival, Powerhouse
2004 Editorial team member, writer and production manager
Scribble, Brisbane Writers Festival newsletter
1999 'Happily Ever After' (Feminism calling planet fashion)
Project manager and instigator, feminist collective entry
Retail Association of Queensland inaugural Wearable Art Award
1994–5 Co-convenor, Race and Gender Symposium
New College of Florida
1994-5 Co-convenor, Campus Sexual Violence Task Force
New College of Florida
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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1999 Skin, Space 43
1997 Dude, Gallery Aesthete, 253 Moray Street, New Farm
1995 Women & Men, Sainer Pavilion, Sarasota Florida (graduating show)
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2004 Mother Me, Green Horse Gallery
2001 Book Show: Artists Books and Multiples, Queensland Art Society
2000 Australia 35x35, Space 43
2000 Marks, Space 43
2000 Soapbox Gallery Book Show
1999 Soapbox Gallery Book Show
1999 Soapbox Gallery Mail Art
1998 Freemantle Print Prize Art Show
1997 Generations, Gallery Aesthete
1997 Episode IV, Secuumb Space
1997 Off the Wall, Gallery Aesthete
1997 Grand Launch, Gallery Aesthete
1996 Indelible Ink, Gallery 482
1996 Virgins Violets Vamps, Bauhaus Gallery
1996 Artists' Book Show, Queensland,College of Art Gallery
1996 Hook Line & Sinker, Universal Joint
1996 [dis]Integrasi, Robert Hughes Gallery
1996 Community Printmakers Murwillumbah Print Prize
1996 Femme Fetish Feitico, Dog Art Space, Fortitude Valley
1996 Backyards and Beyond, Robert Hughes Gallery
1996 FRESHink, Bauhaus Gallery
1995 Fraction, Gallery 482, 482 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
1995 Identity, Michael Burke Gallery 1995 Artiste, Axon Room, University of Queensland
1995 Women's Awareness Month Show, Sainer Pavillion, Sarasota Florida
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MEMBERSHIPS
Australasian Association of Writing Programs
Institute of Communication in Health Care
Museums Association