Motorcycles, Snails: Worlding and the Life of Words | Stephen Muecke




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Summary: Writers and their world seminar series Motorcycles, Snails: Worlding and the Life of Words Professor Stephen Muecke Stephen Muecke is Professor of Writing at The University of New South Wales. He is one of the leading proponents of ficto-critical writing in teaching and through his own work. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Professor Muecke has previously held positions at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Technology in Sydney, where he was Professor of Cultural Studies. Two of his ficto-critical books are the travelogue No Road (Bitumen All The Way) (1997), and the collection of essays Joe in the Andamans (2008). He has won a WA Premier’s non-fiction prize, been shortlisted twice in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and was highly commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ National Literature Awards.