Dr Paul Skrebels

Contact me if you have any questions about the courses I teach in the BA (Writing and Creative Communication), or if you're interested in the Honours program in Writing and Creative Communication.

BA (Professional and Creative Communication)

School of Communication

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• Writing: Academic, Professional and Creative
• Literary and Cultural Studies
• Creative Nonfiction
• Drama and Writing of the Shakespearean Era
• Critical Theory

Member, Australian Association of Writing Programs

Member, Military Historical Society of Australia (SA Branch)

Member, Friends and Family of the First AIF, Inc

PhD (University of Adelaide) 1992

BA (Hons) (Flinders University) 1976

Dip Ed (Flinders University) 1976

• Critical theory approaches to literary studies
• Textual intervention as a strategy for teaching literature
• Writing pedagogies
• Creative nonfiction
• Writing for film and television
• War writing and the discourse of military history
• Military uniforms, insignia and equipment

2008: '"Savagery" versus "flamin' civilisation": Memory, meaning and myth-making in Somme Mud', in Writings of War, University of South Australia Cultures of Conflict Monograph no. 1, ed. C. Woods and J. Timoney, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, pp. 53-80.

2008: 'All Night Long: Jazzing Around with Othello', Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 147-156

2007 · '"Precisely this fragment of the past … precisely this present": An interventionist pathway towards the theorised exegesis', TEXT, The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, vol. 11, no. 2 (October), online: http://www.textjournal.com.au/

2006: 'With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The History of a Unit History', Sabretache, The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia, vol. 47, no. 3 (September), pp. 5-11

2006: 'The Socialist and the Detective Story: The Case of Dan Billany's The Opera House Murders', Worcester Papers in English and Cultural Studies, Issue 4 (July), pp. 6-19

2004: ‘“Between the Real and Really Made-Up: Mimetic Strategies in Dan Billany’s Wartime Novel The Trap’, Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English 1914-1945, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 55-73

2003: ‘Creative nonfiction in the classroom: Extending the boundaries of literary study’, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, vol. 2, no. 2 (Sept ), pp. 18-87, online: http//www.tmc.waikato.ac.nz/English/EPTC/article/pdf/2003v2n2art7.pdf

2002: Skrebels, P. and Van Der Hoeven, S. (eds), For All Time? Critical Issues in Teaching Shakespeare, Wakefield Press, Adelaide – also wrote introduction and one chapter

2001 ‘What’s Shakespeare to us or we to Shakespeare?: An interventionist teaching and learning strategy’, Readerly/Writerly Texts 8.1 & 8.2, pp. 93-103

2000 · Book review – Arming the Nation: A History of Defence Science and Technology in Australia, edited by Frank Cain, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, 1999, in The Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, n. 28, pp. 105-6

1998 · 'Teaching the 4th R: Argument - a foundational communication skill', in The Proceedings of the Australian Communication Skills Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 196-202

1998 · 'Communication: Rhetoric & Reasoning: Providing a theoretical basis for an Arts communication foundation subject', in Image, Text, Persuasion, ed. Claire A. Woods, Centre for Professional and Public Communication, University of South Australia, pp. 67-78

1997 · 'Transhistoricising Much Ado About Nothing: Finding a Place for Shakespeare's Work in the Postmodern World', in Teaching Shakespeare into the 21st Century, Ohio University Press, Athens Ohio, pp 81-95

1997 · 'Students and an Undergraduate Program in Professional Writing and Communication: Altered Geographies ' (with Claire Woods), in Writing-Teaching, Teaching-Writing: The Proceedings, First Annual Conference of University Writing Programs, UTS, Sydney, 11-13 October 1996, pp 114-126, and Text: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, 1:2, http://www.ins.gu.edu.au.eda/text/journal.htm

1996 · 'Altered geographies: ethnography, rhetoric and discourse in an undergraduate degree in Professional Writing - Part 2: Professional and Technical Writing', Australian Journal of Communication vol. 23.3 (1996), pp. 101-113

1996 · 'Technical communication in the applied sciences' (with Sue Tyerman and Ian Reid), in Teaching communication skills in a technological era, Proceedings of the Australian Communication Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, vol. 2, pp. 31-47

1993 · 'More than history can pattern: The purpose of playing and the shortfalls of historiography', in Shakespeare and the world elsewhere, Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, University of Adelaide 1992, pp. 6-14.

1996-present · Ten articles on military insignia in various specialist journals and magazines

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Professional Writing and Communication

• Literature
• Military history and war writing
• Writing skills -- creative and technical
• Rhetoric, Persuasion & Argumentation Skills
• General communication skills