Personal details
- Name
- Professor Susan Carson
- Position(s)
- Program Director
Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication - Professor
Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication - Discipline *
- Other Language, Literature and Culture, Other studies in Human Society, Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 8115
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 0185
- sj.carson@qut.edu.au
- Location
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- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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PhD (University of Queensland)
- Professional memberships
and associations Dr Susan Carson is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing and Literary Studies discipline in the Creative Industries Faculty. Sue has two key research streams, being postgraduate teaching and Australian writing and cultural studies. Sue has won two Category 1 grants from the Office of Learning and Teaching (Australia) (2013; 2014) and in 2013 she won a national citation from the OLT for an Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.
Her current research focus is in cultural tourism with a specific interest in digital and community engagement with the practices of cultural tourism. Sue leads the Creative Industries Cultural Tourism research group and publishes internationally in the field of cultural tourism studies. This research combines Sue’s prior work experience in information technology with her recent research in Australian culture and writing. She is a specialist in women’s writing namely the work of Charmian Clift, Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark and continues to publish on Australian literature. Sue supervises a range of postgraduate students, most of whom are creative writing and cultural studies scholars.
- Keywords
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Cultural Tourism, e-trails, Australian literature, Literary tourism, Modernism, Postgraduate pedagogy