Michael Jackin was awarded his PhD in 2004 for his thesis on collaborative Indigenous life writing in Australia and Canada. Michael is a Research Fellow in the School of English Literatures and Philosophy where he has been project officer for the Australian Multicultural Writers subset of AustLit since 2007. Currently his research for the database focuses on writing by Australian authors in languages other than English. His research interests are: * Life writing and collaboration * Indigenous literatures * Multicultural and multilingual literatures * Exilic and diasporic writing * Writing across cultures
Articles
"Desde Australia para todo el mundo hispano": Australia’s Spanish-Language Magazines and Latin American/Australian Writing, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
Migrants from Latin America have had a literary presence in Australia since the 1970s and...
Southeast Asian writing in Australia: the case of Vietnamese writing, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
Literatures in languages other than English produced by migrant or diasporic communities pose intriguing questions...
Multicultural literature in Australia and the AustLit database, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
Did you know that among the earliest of Australia’s multicultural writers is the Spanish-born Rudesindo...
Not here, not there, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
The Stolen Generations, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
Since the coming of the Europeans, Australia’s ecosystems have been challenged by exotic, introduced species...
Contributions to Books
'Some Stories Need to Be Told, Then Told Again': Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman (Wiebe and Johnson, 1998) is the story...
Consultation and critique: implementing cultural protocols in the reading of collaborative indigenous life writing, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
Anyone working towards the publication of indigenous life narratives is aware of the significance of...