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Dr Dominique Hecq

Acting Associate Dean Research

Dominique Hecq is Senior Lecturer and Research Leader in Writing at Swinburne University of Technology's Faculty of Higher Education Lilydale (Australia) where she is currently acting Associate Dean of Research. She has a PhD in literature and a background in French and Germanic languages, with qualifications in translating. She has published in the areas of literary studies, translation, creative writing, psychoanalysis, and pedagogy. With Russell Grigg and Craig Smith, she co-authored Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies. She is also the author of The Book of Elsa (a novel), Magic, Mythfits and Noisy Blood (fiction), The Gaze of Silence, Good Grief, Couchgrass and Out of Bounds (poetry) as well as two short plays (One Eye Too Many and Cakes & Pains), performed respectively in 2001 and 2004 . Her most recent awards are The New England Review Prize for Poetry (2005) and The Martha Richardson Medal for poetry (2006). She was short-listed for the inaugural Blake Prize for Poetry (2008) and highly commended in its second year. Dominique is the Editor of Bukker Tillibul, Swinburne's Journal of Writing and Practice-led Research.

Dominique has taught in a wide range of subjects in the areas of Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Psychoanalysis in Australia and overseas. It might therefore come as no surprise that her work crosses borders. Her writing explores notions of sexual, linguistic and cultural identification. It is often experimental. Her research aims at bridging the gap between creative writing and theory: it teases out links between creativity and the psychoanalytic teachings of Lacan whilst examining ethical and political questions underpinning intercultural, feminist, and postcolonial issues. Recent publications develop ways of applying psychoanalysis to pedagogy.

Dominique is at present working on two research projects at various stages of development: ‘Writing the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis for the Creative Writer'a nd ‘Writing, Madness and Anxiety'. Recent papers exploring the concept of ‘Interactive Narrative Pedagogy as a Heuristic for Understanding Supervision in Practice-led Research' were written thanks to two consecutive Swinburne Research grants. The Creativity Market: is it desirable and sustainable , an edited book, is under review.

'The Ear in the Hear', a novel, 'Hush', a memoir of cot death, and Stretchmarks of Sun are well under way in the creative writing department. 'Smacked and Other Stories of Addiction' is forthcoming.

Dominique currently supervises a range of PhD's in practice-led research in diverse forms and with multiple foci. These include fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, poetics, performance, epistolarity, music and the art of anthologising.

Languages spoken : English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish (rudimentary)

 

Qualifications:

Dip German, Dip New Literatures in English, DipEd (Liège), BAHons (Germanic Philology, English Major) ( Liège), MAHons (Literary Translation) (Liège), PhD (LaT)

Professional Associations:

  • World Association for Psychoanalysis
  • Founding Member Lacan Circle of Melbourne
  • International Association for Comparative Literature
  • Association for the Study of Australian Literature
  • Victorian Writers' Centre
  • Society of Australian Writers
  • Australian Fellowship of Writers
  • Australian Poetry Centre
  • Executive Member Australian Association of Writing Programs (Secretary)
  • NAATI Accredited Translator
  • ARC OZ Reader
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Selected Publications:

Books

  • Out of Bounds (Re-Press, Melbourne, 2009)
  • Couchgrass (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2006)
  • Noisy Blood (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2004)
  • Good Grief (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2002)
  • The Book of Elsa, a novel (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2000)
  • Magic and Other Stories (Woorilla Books: Melbourne, 2000)
  • Mythfits: Four Uneasy Pieces (Penfolk: Melbourne, 1999).
  • The Gaze of Silence (SideWaLK Collective: Adelaide, 1999)
  • With Russell Grigg and Craig Smith, Femininity: Freud and the Early Psychoanalytic Controversies (The Other Press: London, New York, 1999).

Refereed Journal Articles

Edited Book Chapters

  • Hecq, D. 2006 'The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis', in Reading Lacan's Seminar XVII, Duke University Press, New York. pp. 216-226
  • Hecq, D 2001 'Foreclosure', in H. Glowinski, Z. Marks and S. Murphy Eds. A Compendium of Lacanian Terms Free Association Books, London & NY, pp. 71-75.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Hecq, D. 2009 'The Borderlines of Poetry'. Paper in the refereed stream of the 14th annual AAWP Conference
  • Hecq, D 2009 'Poetry, Sound and the Designing of "Phantom Objectivity"'. Writing Intersections Conference, Swinburne University & RMIT, Melbourne. November 2009.
  • Hecq, D. 2009 'Banking on Creativity?' proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
  • Hecq, D. 2009 'Interactive Narrative Pedagogy in Creative Writing after Globalisation' a virtual conference paper at the 6th International Conference on the Book, Washington DC, October 2008
  • Hecq, D. 2008 'Interactive Narrative Pedagogy as a Heuristic for Understanding Supervision in Creative Writing', Proceedings of the Paris International Conference on Education, Economy and Society - Paris 17-19 July 2009. ANALYTRICS, pp. 60-71.
  • Hecq, D. 2006 'Writing the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis for the Creative Writer', 2006 AAWP Conference, Brisbane.
  • Hecq, D. & Lee, C. 2006 'The fait divers as a heuristic for scrutinizing the construction of moral panics in the Australian media', paper jointly written and presented at an International Symposium in Lyon, France. The paper was published in the proceedings of the conference. An abridged version of it in French appeared on ERSICOM's website. An expanded version appears in Médias et Culture.
  • Hecq, D. 2005 'Uncanny Encounters: On Writing, Anxiety and Jouissance', presented at the Double Dialogues Conference, organised by the Universities of Deakin and Melbourne. The fully refereed version appeared as Double dialogues, Vol. 6: Anatomy and Poetics.

Sample Poetry and Fiction (online)

Shorter Publications: Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Leaving Home", in Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, Vol 5, No 10, pp.22.
  • "Follysophy", in Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 1-2 (2006), 311-312, reprinted in Ashton, Bartlett and Clemens, The Praxis of Alain Badiou (re.press, Melbourne, 2006), pp. 388-89.
  • "Labyrinth", in Best Australian Poetry 2006 (UQP, St Lucia, 2006), pp. 26-27. Selected.
  • "The Lining of the Land", in Where Art Thou, Brother (Poetica Christi, Mont Albert, 2006), pp. 21-23. Selected.
  • "The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis", in Reading Lacan's Seminar XVII ( Duke University Press, New York, 2006), pp. 247-258.
  • "Uncanny Encounters: On Writing, Anxiety and Jouissance", Double Dialogues, Vol. 6: Anatomy and Poetics.
  • "The Other Side of Psychoanalysis: of Impossible Power", Journal of Lacanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Nov. 2005), 34-46.
  • "Of Litter and Letters", TEXT, Griffiths University Brisbane, Vol 9 No 2 October 2005.
  • "Autofrictions: the Fictopoet, the Critic and the Teacher", Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2005), 179-88.
  • "Margins: The poetic text and its theoretical gesturing", TEXT, Vol 9 No 1 April 2005.
  • "Hystericising the Voice of Others: A Change of Skies", Meridian (May 2004), 26-33.
  • "This Ineffable State of Refuse: in Defense of Literature", Belgian Essays in Literature (2002), 23-37.
  • "Foreclosure" in H. Glowinski, Z. Marks and S. Murphy Eds. A Compendium of Lacanian Terms (Free Association Books, London & NY, 2001), pp. 71-75.
  • "Apocalyptic Transpositions", SideWaLK Nos 7/8 (March 2001), 144.
  • "Flying up for Air: Australian Artists in Exile", Commonwealth (Spring 2000), 35-45.
  • "The Geopsychic Imagination: Exilic Patterns in Australian Literature", Belgian essays in Language and Literature (1998), 75-83.
  • "Inventive Writing: an anti-method", in Truth: Writing Courses and the Imagination (Grendon Press: Melbourne, 1998), pp. 68-73.
  • "The Doll : This Classic Australian Play", Commonwealth, (Spring 1997), 79-87.
  • "Tales of Purloined Letters and Edited Destinies", in Crossing Cultures: Festschrift in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek, M. Delrez & B. Ledent, eds., L3, 1997, 11-27.
  • "Myth-taken Paths and Exits in Peter Carey's Bliss", Commonwealth, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring 1996), 99-103.
  • "The Inescapable Plain of Trespass: On Translating The Plains", Southerly, (Spring 1995), 63-73.
  • "Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World : Mudrooroo's Ideological Claim in the Land of History", Belgian Essays on Language and Literature (1994), pp. 46-54.
  • "Louise Forthun: The Elusive Physicality of Spaces", Tolarno Galleries, March 1994.

Units Convened:

Current units:

  • LO91 (PhD)
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