Dennis Haskell

Westerly Centre Board member

See below under Research. Please note that Emeritus Professor Haskell is not undertaking supervision of new postgraduate students.

DENNIS HASKELL is the author of 9 collections of poetry, the most recent And Yet... (WA Poets Publishing, 2020), Ahead of Us (Fremantle Press, 2016) and What Are You Doing Here? (University of The Philippines Press, 2015) plus 14 volumes of literary scholarship and criticism. Haskell was Co-editor of Westerly magazine from 1985-2009 and is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia. He is the recipient of the Western Australia Premier's Prize for Poetry, the A A Phillips Prize for a distinguished contribution to Australian literature from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Western Australia. He has served as Visiting Professor and Poet at universities in Europe, the USA and Asia. In 2015 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "services to literature, particularly poetry, to education and to intercultural understanding". The July 2011 (Vol. 56, No. 1) issue of Westerly (westerlymag.edu.au) and the December 2020 issue of Asiatic(https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/54) focus on his poetry.His website is dennishaskell.com.au

(i) Australian Literature, especially Twentieth Century and Contemporary Australian Literature.

(ii) Poetry from the Medieval period to the present. Within this broad range I have special interest in the English Romantics, Irish Poetry, Twentieth Century, and Contemporary Poetry.

(iii) Creative Writing

(iv) South-east Asian Writing in English.

(v) Literary Modernism (1890-1939)

(vi) Modernism and after

(vii) Post-colonial Literature