For the last fourteen years I’ve been an independent, de-institutionalized scholar. I
have been for the last few years part of the group that calls itself the Arctic Terns
(made up of Jane Speedy, Carol Laidler, Davina Kirkpatrick, Susanne Gannon and
Sheridan Linnell), and I’m loosely affiliated with Melbourne University, as Adjunct
Professor, and Western Sydney University, as Emeritus Professor. The distinctive
features of my work are my development of experimental and collaborative ways of
doing research and writing, incorporating elements of the visual, literary and
performative arts. Jane Speedy has introduced me to CANI-net and it seems an
ideal place for me, except perhaps for the time zone dilemma…