Curtin University\u2019s Miles Franklin award-winning author, Kim Scott, has been appointed Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts.<\/p>\n
Professor Scott will this week commence a five-year appointment in the School, working also in Curtin\u2019s Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS) and the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI).<\/p>\n
The author of three novels, Professor Scott has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Premier\u2019s Prize in the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal. He became the first Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his first novel Benang: From the Heart<\/em> in 1999.<\/p>\n His most recent novel, the 2011 Miles Franklin winner and critically acclaimed That Deadman Dance<\/em>, was recently presented to US President Barrack Obama as part of a gift package from the Australian Government.<\/p>\n Curtin University Pro Vice-Chancellor for Humanities, Professor Majella Franzmann said Professor Scott\u2019s appointment would deliver many benefits for current and future students of Curtin University.<\/p>\n \u201cKim is highly respected around the world for his ability,\u201d Professor Franzmann said.<\/p>\n \u201cI warmly welcome him to this new position.\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Scott has a long association with Curtin University and, prior to this appointment, held the position of Associate Professor for CHIRI, working in the area of Indigenous Health Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curtin University\u2019s Miles Franklin award-winning author, Kim Scott, has been appointed Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17849","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}