Graeme Harper (writer)
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Graeme Harper is a fiction writer, scriptwriter and cultural critic, who writes under his own name and under the pseudonym Brooke Biaz.
He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing,[1] Co-Editor (with O. Evans) of the journal Studies in European Cinema[2] and Associate Editor of the Creative Industries Journal.[3] As creative writer and as cultural critic, he is a regular international reader/speaker. His works include On Creative Writing,[4] Camera Phone,[5] The Creative Writing Guidebook,[6] Moon Dance[7] (Parlor, 2008), Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research, Pedagogy[8] with J. Kroll (MLM, 2008), The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film[9] with R.Stone (Wallflower, 2007), Small Maps of the World[10] (Parlor, 2006), Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine (Wallflower, 2005), with A.Moor; Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism (Continuum, 2002) and Black Cat, Green Field (Transworld), among many others.
[edit] Academic
As Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS FRSA FAIM, he is the Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at Bangor University/University of Wales, Bangor (UK). He has also been an Honorary Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the USA and Australia, and is currently Honorary Research Professor at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). He is a Panel Member of Great Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He holds dual British and Australian citizenship. An elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), he is a former member of the European Commission Culture and Education Directorate Panel of Experts.
[edit] Advocate
As Director of the National Institute he campaigns for the development of creative practice-led research, especially in Creative Writing, and for acknowledging the critical understanding contained in creative practice. He is a strong supporter of creativity in university education, and was founding Director of the UK's Creative Campus campaign (2003-) and is current Chair of the worldwide "Creative Universities" [1] initiative.
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