Philip Mead

Philip Mead was inaugural Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia (2009-2018). He is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. In 1991 he co-edited, with John Tranter, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry. In 2009 Philip published Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry and in 2018 Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016 (with Gordon McMullan) and The Social Work of Narrative: human rights and the cultural imaginary (ed. with Gareth Griffiths).