Clancy R

My educational background in literature and law equips me with the ability to combine expressive flair and extremely particular attention to detail. I am adept at writing to wildly varying registers of academic, legal and business jargon, and am comfortable editing the highest levels of legal and academic documents.

I have bachelor degrees in English literature and law from the University of New South Wales and masters degrees in English literature and Film Aesthetics from Oxford University, respectively. For each of these degrees I have written substantial academic dissertations, developing over the years an extremely sophisticated editorial skill set.

Professional Background

I have taught various one-on-one and class courses at tutoring colleges within Australia, including basic grammar and syntax, for ESL students, to advanced rhetorical and literary criticism, for elite school students. I have also worked as a copy-editor at an academic publishing house, Australian Linguistics Press.

Research Interests

1. Twentieth-century Anglo-American fiction and poetry
2. Modernism
3. Continental philosophy
4. Aestheticism
5. Film and film theory; the multimedia ecology
6. Satire and late modernism
7. Literature and mathematics
8. Literary theory and the history of criticism; sociology of literature
9. Digital humanities; computational methods for literary studies; LaTeX
10. Literary transnationalism and world literature
11. Applications of linguistics and cognitive science in literature, especially poetics
12. Editorial practice and hypertext theory

Prizes & Awards

1. Oxford University Examination Prize for Distinction in M.St in English
2. James Fairfax–Oxford Australia Scholarship ($12,000 per annum)
3. Oxford Australia–Alma Mater Scholarship ($15,000 per annum) 
4. Wadham College Judge Burka Travel Grant (£650)
5. Cambridge University Commonwealth Scholarship (£15,000 per annum – declined)
6. The University Medal in Law – first in Law Honours cohort
7. The University Medal in English – first in English Honours cohort
8. English Association Prize ($2500) – for the best performance in literature by a final year Honours student
9. UNSW Research Excellence Award ($32,500 per annum – declined)
10. Australian Postgraduate Research Award ($22,500 per annum – declined)
11. Harvard University Travel Scholarship ($25,000)
12. UNSW International Exchange Scholarship ($2000)
13. UNSW Honours Year Scholarship ($5000) – awarded by Pro-Vice-Chancellor for highest undergraduate WAM in Arts, nominated by Faculty of Arts
14. Dennis Balson Chinese Philosophy Prize ($750) – first in course and major essay
15. John Golder Essay Prize in Theatre History ($750)