With writing interests in fiction and non-fiction, Dr Shady Cosgrove is currently writing a novel entitled 'The Necessary Tango', set in Argentina, that explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. Her creative non-fiction manuscript 'She Played Elvis' - about family, pilgrimage and nationhood - was shortlisted for the 2007 Australian/Vogel Literary Prize and was published by Allen and Unwin in 2009. Her short fiction has been published in Small Wonder, Southerly, Antipodes, Hecate and Best Australian Short Stories 2006. Shady Cosgrove has a background in journalism - she worked for John Fairfax Holdings at the Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury. She covered the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games as a sports journalist and specialised in feature writing and sub-editing. 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. Entitled 'The Fictional Character as a Site of Agency: A Theoretical and Practical Exploration', her thesis examined structural and post-structural debates about character. She is also a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.
Literary Works
Journal Articles
WRIT101: Ethics of Representation for Creative Writers, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2009)
Medicine, journalism, law: these are courses that require students to take classes in ethics. They...
Teaching and Learning as Improvisational Performance in the Creative Writing Classroom, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2005)
In this essay I will argue that the teacher-as-performer metaphor is too simplistic. Instead, I...
Conference Publications
Reading for peace? Literature as activism – an investigation into new literary ethics and the novel, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2008)
Literary ethicists like Dorothy J Hale and narratologists like James Phelan have argued that the...
Uncertainty and Praxis in the Creative Writing Classroom, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2008)
According to music pedagogue Randall Allsup (2003: 157), praxis is “not simply the capacity to...
Literary ethics and the novel; or, can the novel save the world?, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2007)
Gayatri Spivak links literary reading and ethics when she writes: ‘If he (Paul Wolfowitz) had...
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Radical Uncertainty: Judith Butler and a theory of character, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2011)
This paper will develop a theory of character based on Judith Butlerÿs ideas of subjectivity...