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Roanna Gonsalves

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CURRENT

  • PhD Candidate, School of English, Media and the Performing Arts, UNSW, Australia, researching Indian literary culture, and writing a collection of short stories. Recipient of one of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards 2013 to continue PhD research in India
  • Salvation Apartments, a novel
  • Research assistant to Professor Janet Chan

EDUCATION

  • Graduate Diploma in Arts by Research in Social Science (UNSW) 2010, (Awarded a High Distinction)
  •  M.A. in Professional Writing, UTS, Sydney, 2002
  • Diploma in Television Production, North Sydney, 1999
  • M.A. in English Literature, University of Bombay, India, 1997
  • B.A. in English Literature, St. Xavier’s College, University Of Bombay, India, 1995

RECENT CREATIVE WORK

  • The Patron Saint of Excess Baggage: commissioned essay for Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home, an anthology of essays by expat writers in Australia, eds. Kent MacCarter & Ali Lemer, Affirm Press (2013) for Melbourne PEN
  • Script consultant on Sunshine and Shade, a documentary film directed by Ana Tiwary, about Indian students in Australia, 2010-2012
  • The Rough Guide to the Arts End of the World: a radio interview about the arts in Australia on Creative Instinct, Radio National, produced by Anna Messariti, May 2012
  • The Skit: Edited extract of a short story in progress, featured as part of Varuna Writer-A-Day App December 2011
  • Merchants: A showing of some preliminary scenes, development commissioned by Mind’s Eye, Bell Shakespeare Company, Australia, November 2011
  • Yet to Ascertain The Nature Of The Crime, Melbourne Workers Theatre (November 2010, with Damien Millar, Raimondo Cortese and the company)  ***WINNER AUSTRALIAN WRITERS GUILD AWARD 2011***
  • Doosra: The life and times of an Indian student in Australia. An illustrated essay/radio documentary for ABC Radio National’s 360 program First broadcast 20 March 2010, and then on 24 March 2010, 22 January 2011, and Australia Day 2011 (26 January 2011)
  • O Other Where Art Thou: an article published on The ABC’s The Drum/Unleashed website on Mar 19, 2010
  • Deconstructing the elephant: an article about diversity in Australian television published by WIFT NSW (Women in Film and Television NSW) on October 12, 2009
  • Curry Muncher: short fiction published in Eureka Street June 23, 2009
  • Altered States: I co-wrote this multimedia performance show, a collaboration between PACT Theatre, Sydney and Backbone Theatre, Brisbane, performed -Brisbane, 2003
  • Don’t Be Mean: I directed and co-wrote this educational video (drama) for the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW, 2001
  • Replicant Hotel: I co-wrote this multimedia performance show performed at PACT Theatre, Sydney, August 2000


REFEREED ACADEMIC WORK

  • Gonsalves, Roanna (2011) Multiculturalism and Mainstage Australian Theatre. Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia, Vol.2. No.2, 2011
  •  Chan, J., Gonsalves, R. & Metcalfe, N. 2011. Bridging the Two Cultures: The Fragility of Interdisciplinary Creative Collaboration. In: Fischer, G. & Vassen, F. (eds.) Collective Creativity: Collaborative Work in the Sciences, Literature and the Arts. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi.
  • Gonsalves, Roanna and Chan, Janet (2008). Creating Fiction: Bourdieu’s theory, and writing practice, TEXT. April 2008


CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

  • All’s Fair at the Frankfurt Book Fair: An ethnography of a literary space, Conference paper at the Cultural Studies Association of Australia annual conference, University of Sydney, December 4, 2012
  • Borders and Shading and Other Minor Matters, invited presentation as part of Talking Across Borders, a panel of emerging writers at Australia-India Literatures International Forum, organised by Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, held at the State Library of New South Wales, 5 September 2012
  • Creating the Creators: Conference paper about the literary world at the Scenes of Reading Conference,  University of Sydney, May 25-26, 2012
  • The Work of Art in the Age of the Education Industry: Invited presentation at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, Public Seminar Series on India, University of Wollongong, October 2011
  • Curry Munchers, Cricket and Crime: Invited presentation at UTS IOSARN Talking India Series, Sydney, November 11, 2010
  • The Writer as Igneous or Sedimentary Rock: An exploration of the varied creative processes of novelists, Conference paper at the Australian Association of Writing Programs conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, November 2008
  • Creating Fiction: Bourdieu’s Theory and Writing Practice, Conference paper at the Australian Association of Writing Programs conference, University of Canberra, Canberra, November 2007


AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • Australian Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Postgraduate (Outgoing) Award 2013
  • Dean’s Student Leadership Award 2012, Community category, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Scholarship to attend Minor Cosmopolitanisms, Summer School, University of Potsdam, Germany, July 2012
  • Australian Writers Guild Award, Best Script, Community and Youth Theatre, 2011
  • Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) 2011 to undertake a PhD at UNSW
  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Top Up Award for top ranked applicants 2011, to undertake a PhD
  • Varuna Writers Centre Fellowship 2011
  • Longlisted for the Australian/Vogel Literary Awards 2009
  • Vermont Studio Centre Artist’s Grant to attend 4 week writing residency at Vermont Studio Centre, USA in 2010
  • Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board New Work Emerging Writer Grant: October 2008
  • Shortlisted for Varuna-Harper Collins Awards for Manuscript Development 2006
  • Varuna Writers Centre mentorship with Charlotte Wood: 2003
  • Varuna Writers Centre writing workshop with Charlotte Wood: 2002


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  • Postcolonial Studies Association
  • Australian Writers Guild
  • Varuna Writers Centre Alumni Association
  • South Asian Australian Writing Network

COMMUNITY

  • Founder and moderator of South Asian Australian Writing Network (SAAWN) on Facebook
  • Organising Committee member of Gondwanalandings, the first scholarly and creative symposium of the Indian diaspora in Australia, 2013
  • Member of the Higher Degree Research Students Committee, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW, Australia, 2012
  • Served on the Organising Committee of Making Tracks, the annual postgraduate symposium of the School of the Arts and Media, FASS, UNSW, 2012
  • Member of the advisory group for Diversity in Australian Theater Alliance, 2010-continuing
  • Member of the Family Advisory Council, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia, 2010

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