MIC manager scores publishing trifecta
Published on 20 February, 2003
Tris Kerslake, STEP Manager at CQU Melbourne International Campus, is entering the publishing world.
She has been an invited contributor to Equilibris Publishing, located in the Netherlands.
Her paper, Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Kurt Lasswitz and H.G.Wells, will join the works of other international academics as one of the most scholarly papers written on H.G.Wells in the last 27 years.
The papers – only 13 of them in total, from contributors all around the world – have been selected by Dr J. Partington, current editor of the United Kingdom academic journal, The Wellsian.
Additionally, Tris is communicating with a US publisher regarding a fantasy work titled Walking the Light, while completing a second anthology of poetry, An Imported Woman, for a Melbourne publishing house. Her last poetic contribution was for Visual Design: A Collection of Essays Concerning the Visual Nature of Place and Landscape, by Dr. Ian Henderson (published by the University of Tasmania).
Tris has been well-received as a Guest Poet at the University of New England’s Festival of Words and Music in Armidale, NSW, as well as being featured in a Radio Sydney/UNE Arts program.
One of a small group of international nominees for the American Society of Poets’, Poet of the Year (2002), Tris is also about to submit her doctoral dissertation at La Trobe University in February, becoming the first female academic in Australia to produce a doctorate combining contemporary literary theory and imperialist politics in science fiction.
Tris has also been a participant in the Victorian Writer's Centre and CyberPoet (Victoria’s online poetry journal).
Tris is popular among CQU-MIC students for her work in the STEP program where she educates students on identifying their skills and developing them to specific job requirements.
Tris also helps students to interpret job ads, job descriptions and to develop professional resumes. Tris has made valuable contacts with organisations such as Qenos and Oracle so that students at CQU-MIC are able to gain valuable work experience.