David Thomas Henry Wright

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David Thomas Henry Wright won the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards’ QUT Digital Literature Prize and 2019 Robert Coover Award for a work of Electronic Literature (2nd prize). He was shortlisted for the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, Viva La Novella Award, Overland Short Story Prize, and the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards’ Digital Literature Prize. He has been published in Southerly, Westerly, Seizure, Verity La, Electronic Book Review, and MATLIT. He has a PhD (English and Comparative Literature) from Murdoch University and a Masters (Creative Writing) from The University of Edinburgh, and taught Creative Writing at China’s top university, Tsinghua. He is currently co-editor of The Digital Review and Associate Professor (Comparative Literature) at Nagoya University.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Associate Professor, University of Bergen
  • 2020–2024
    Associate Professor, Nagoya University
  • 2012–2014
    Lecturer, Tsinghua Univeristy

Education

  • 2019 
    Murdoch University, PhD
  • 2009 
    University of Edinburgh, MSc (Creative Writing)
  • 2005 
    Queensland University of Technology, BFA (Film and Television)

Publications

  • 2022
    Honest Slots, Taper
  • 2021
    Data as language; language as data (chapter), ICIDS 2020 Exhibition Book
  • 2021
    Extending Modernist Stream-of-consciousness Aesthetics: Digital Variations on William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
  • 2021
    Digital Orihon (デジタル 折り本): The (un)continuous shape of the novel, Electronic Book Review
  • 2021
    The impossibility of an ending in the mind of a compulsive gambler, Taper
  • 2021
    A Recombinant History of Australian Camels, Griffith Review
  • 2021
    flâneur treadmill, Taper
  • 2021
    War Rooms: Three Poems, TEXT
  • 2020
    A Selflessly Evacuated Spirit, TEXT
  • 2020
    [The future of the humanities in Australia] or; On {On Generosity, National Press Club address}, Westerly
  • 2020
    Collaboration and Authority in Electronic Literature, TEXT
  • 2019
    Italo Calvino’s Six Memos as ethical imperative in J.R. Carpenter’s The Gathering Cloud’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
  • 2019
    Gross National Happiness, Verity La
  • 2019
    Unlabelled Bottles, Island
  • 2019
    ヴェブレン OK (The Veblen Good), Griffith Review
  • 2019
    Sound, Fury, and Consistency: Writing Recombinant Fiction, The Writing Platform
  • 2018
    ‘Writing for’ with authority: Theorizing an electronic edition of Censoring an Iranian Love Story, MATLIT: Materialities of Literature
  • 2018
    Self-Aware Self-Censorship As Form, Electronic Book Review
  • 2018
    Camel F, Westerly
  • 2017
    The Black War Thesis, Verity La
  • 2016
    Feckless, Southerly
  • 2015
    The Gigantic Serpent with Varicoloured Scales, Southerly: Long Paddock
  • 2015
    Executive Chairman’s Letter to the Shareholders, 2014 Annual Report, Seizure

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Australia Council for the Arts Grant
    Role:
    Writer
    Funding Source:
    Australia Council for the Arts
  • 2021
    若手研究 KAKENHI Grant
    Role:
    Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2020
    Writing Queensland Fellowship
    Role:
    Writer
    Funding Source:
    Griffith Review
  • 2020
    Australia Council for the Arts Grant
    Role:
    Writer
    Funding Source:
    Australia Council for the Arts

Professional Memberships

  • Electronic Literature Organisation
  • Australasian Association of Writing Programs
  • Golden Key International Honour Society
  • Association for the Study of Australian Literature
  • Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Inc.
  • Copyright Agency
  • Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

Contact David for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision