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
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2020–presentAssociate professor, Nagoya University
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2012–2014Lecturer, Tsinghua Univeristy
Education
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2019Murdoch University, PhD
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2009University of Edinburgh, MSc (Creative Writing)
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2005Queensland University of Technology, BFA (Film and Television)
Publications
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2022Honest Slots, Taper
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2021Data as language; language as data (chapter), ICIDS 2020 Exhibition Book
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2021Extending Modernist Stream-of-consciousness Aesthetics: Digital Variations on William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
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2021Digital Orihon (デジタル 折り本): The (un)continuous shape of the novel, Electronic Book Review
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2021The impossibility of an ending in the mind of a compulsive gambler, Taper
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2021A Recombinant History of Australian Camels, Griffith Review
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2021flâneur treadmill, Taper
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2021War Rooms: Three Poems, TEXT
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2020A Selflessly Evacuated Spirit, TEXT
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2020[The future of the humanities in Australia] or; On {On Generosity, National Press Club address}, Westerly
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2020Collaboration and Authority in Electronic Literature, TEXT
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2019Italo 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
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2019Gross National Happiness, Verity La
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2019Unlabelled Bottles, Island
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2019ヴェブレン OK (The Veblen Good), Griffith Review
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2019Sound, Fury, and Consistency: Writing Recombinant Fiction, The Writing Platform
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2018‘Writing for’ with authority: Theorizing an electronic edition of Censoring an Iranian Love Story, MATLIT: Materialities of Literature
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2018Self-Aware Self-Censorship As Form, Electronic Book Review
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2018Camel F, Westerly
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2017The Black War Thesis, Verity La
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2016Feckless, Southerly
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2015The Gigantic Serpent with Varicoloured Scales, Southerly: Long Paddock
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2015Executive Chairman’s Letter to the Shareholders, 2014 Annual Report, Seizure
Grants and Contracts
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2022Australia Council for the Arts Grant
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- Writer
- Funding Source:
- Australia Council for the Arts
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2021若手研究 KAKENHI Grant
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- Researcher
- Funding Source:
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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2020Writing Queensland Fellowship
- Role:
- Writer
- Funding Source:
- Griffith Review
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2020Australia 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
- Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Inc.
- Copyright Agency
- Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
- Nagoya, Japan
- Website
- Article Feed
- Joined
