Doctor Tegan Daylight
Lecturer, Creative Writing,
Humanities (Arts)
Biography
Dr Tegan Bennett Daylight is a writer, lecturer and critic who teaches into the Bachelor of Arts Creative Writing major at Western Sydney. She is the author of three novels: Bombora, What Falls Away and Safety, as well as several books for children and teenagers. Her first novel was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel award and after the publication of her second she was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists. Her collection of short stories, Six Bedrooms, was published in July 2015, and shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Steele Rudd Award and the 2016 Stella Prize. Her book of essays, The Details, was published by Scribner in July 2020 and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction. Her latest book, Royals, will be published by Scribner in May 2023.
She is the recipient of four Australia Council grants for Literature, a Create grant from the Copyright Agency, and was shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Fellowship. She has been a writer in residence at Varuna, The National Writers' House, and an Artist in Residence at Bundanon.
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Qualifications
- DCA University of Technology, Sydney
Professional Memberships
- Writing and Society Research Centre (2021)
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Humanities (Arts)
Contact
| Email: | T.Daylight@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Location: | EQ Parramatta |
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Teaching
Current Teaching Areas
- 100856 Creative Non-Fiction
- CART6001 Writers at Work
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Bennett Daylight, T. (2023), 'Fully present, utterly connected : The Golden Age by Joan London', Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books, Sydney Review of Books 9780648062196.
- Bennett Daylight, T. (2021), 'A big sunny shack : Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner', Reading Like An Australian Writer, NewSouth Publishing 9781742236704.
Journal Articles
- Bennett Daylight, T. (2019), 'Keeping faith with words : on teaching literature in the digital age', Griffith Review, vol 64 , pp 245 - 253.
- Bennett Daylight, T. (2018), 'Praise, improvement, praise', The Australian Author, vol 50, no 2 , pp 108 - 111.
- Bennett Daylight, T. (2018), 'A mole, a viper, a toad : Brian Dillon's Essayism', Sydney Review of Books, vol May 22, 2018 .
- Bennett Daylight, T. (2017), 'Learning to see', Island, vol 150 , pp 27 - 30.
Other Publications
- 2023, 'Royals', Published Work
- 2020, 'The Details: On Love, Death and Reading', Published Work
Supervision
Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | In Search of Lost Objects |
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| Thesis Title: | Tongue: Re-orientalism, Shame and the Postcolonial Indian Experience |
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| Thesis Title: | The disorienting experience of anxiety and the therapeutic potential of personal essay writing |
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| Thesis Title: | The Past Disregarded: Recovering the political history of Pakistan with documentary prose |
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