Associate Professor
Kari Gislason

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Creative Writing
Biography
Background Dr Kari Gislason is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. He has previously taught in Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Tuebingen, the University of Queensland, the University of Iceland, and Bond University, as well as at senior secondary colleges. His PhD, a study of authorship in medieval Iceland, was completed at the University of Queensland in 2003, and was included on the UQ Dean's Commendation List for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses. He has worked in a research capacity on projects that investigated the teaching of Shakespeare in Australian universities, environmental law, and practices of translation and language training. Dr Gislason has published internationally on a range of topics in literature and cultural studies, as well as creative writing pieces in the local and national press, and in Australian literary journals. He currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Australian Book Review. In 2011, he published a family memoir The Promise of Iceland, and in 2015 the novel The Ash Burner. Both works were shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. He has delivered numerous papers in the areas of authorship studies, narrative theory, and creative writing scholarship. He is currently the unit coordinator of:- KWB116 Creative Non-fiction
- KWB313 Novel and Memoir
- KWB415 Theory and Practice in Creative Writing and Literary Studies
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Creative Writing
Discipline
Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Literary Studies, Other Language, Literature and Culture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- Master of Arts (University of Queensland)
- Bachelor of Arts with Honour Class 1 (University of Queensland)
- Bachelor of Laws (University of Queensland)
Teaching
- Co-investigator, QUT Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant (2013): The Art of Studio Teaching, an interdisciplinary learning and teaching project by Kári Gíslason, Courtney Pedersen, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, and Anoma Kumarasuriyar (https://vimeo.com/album/311414)
- Co‐investigator, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant (2011): The Creative Writing Exegesis, a learning and teaching project by Kári Gíslason, Donna Hancox, Vivienne Muller, and Sharyn Pearce
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010)
Selected publications
- Fidler R, Gislason K, (2017) Saga land: The island of stories at the edge of the world . [Textual].
- Gislason K, Fidler R, Fieldhouse S, Rayner M, (2016) Saga land: Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason in Iceland . [N/A].
- Gislason K, (2015) Reading Australia: 'Romulus, My Father' by Raimond Gaita . [N/A].
- Gislason K, (2015) The ash burner . [Textual].
- Carson S, Hawkes L, Gislason K, Martin S, (2013) Practices of literary tourism: An Australian case study, International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 7 (1), pp. 42-50.
- Gislason K, (2012) Travel writing. In D Morley & P Neilsen, The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing, Cambridge University Press, pp. 87-101.
- Gislason K, (2011) The promise of Iceland . [Textual].
- Gislason K, (2009) Within and without family in the Icelandic sagas, Parergon, 26 (1), pp. 13-33.
- Gislason K, (2006) Reading for saga authorship: a character-based approach, Gripla, 2006, pp. 125-152.
- Gislason K, (2005) The Icelander abroad: Hjalti Skeggjason's Swedish mission. In G Barnes & G Singleton, Travel and travellers from Bede to Dampier, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 67-77.
QUT ePrints
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Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Re-presenting the Past: Authenticity and the Historical Novel (2014)
- The Sideways Hourglass: Establishing the Lemniscate as a Narrative Structure for Writing and Reading Non-Linear Stories (2014)
- Writing the Visible Page: A Multimodal Approach to Graphic Devices in Literary Fiction (2013)
- The Artful Life Story: The Oral History Interview as Fiction (2012)
- Writing About Risky Relatives and What Might Have Been: The Craft of Historiographic Metafiction (2012)