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
2020–present
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
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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