Aboriginal Studies Program: Research Supervisor Profiles
Name of Project Supervisor:
Dr Ernie Blackmore
Short Supervisor Bio:
Ernie is currently a lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at the University of Wollongong. He has a background in Creative Writing and Theatre having completed his BCA in Creative Writing and his Masters in Writing for Theatre. His PhD was based in English Literatures and sought to examine the nature and place of an Urban Indigenous Voice using contemporary Australian theatre as a platform from which to launch his argument.
Supervisor Research Keywords:
• Life Writing
• Recording Indigenous oral histories
• Indigenous Knowledges, Sovereignty and Governance
• Literature, Identity and Culture:
Research Interests/Passion:
Literature, Identity and Culture: Comparative study of Australian and Irish literature and culture at the hands of British Colonialism. The collection and preservation of Indigenous Elders’ Oral histories. We are reaching a time in our history when our Elders are leaving us in numbers like never before, especially, although not exclusively, our male Elders. I am very keen to be part of a team concentrating on the preservation of the oral histories these Elders possess and have them preserved in ways that will ensure the accessibility of these knowledges for future generations of Indigenous peoples as well as other Australians.
Suggested Student Research Topics:
• Recording and Preserving Indigenous Oral Histories.
• Governance and Sovereignty; and
• Expansion of Indigenous Knowledges.
• Examination of the role of Indigenous creative writers and the recording of Indigenous stories as compared with fiction from an Indigenous perspective.
Brief Track Record:
Having recently completed his PhD Ernie is following up earlier work he had engaged in with Women Elders in the Illawarra with the view to expanding on that earlier work with a view to combining the Elders’ stories of the Illawarra with comparative personal and oral histories as they may exist in both New Zealand and Canada. Ernie Is also the Chief Investigator for the AustLit Database Black Words sub-set at the University of Wollongong. Black Words, the latest expansion of the AustLit Databases Sub-sets, in currently operating on approximately 10 campuses across Australia, although that will increase in the near future to about 14, and is a tool that will permit easier and more comprehensive access to Australia’s dearth of Indigenous writers and storytellers.
For Further Details See:
http://www.uow.edu.au/wic/staffprofiles/UOW031589.html
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