Ken Goodwin (academic)

Ken Leslie Goodwin MA Dip.Ed. (Syd.), DPhil. (Oxon), Hon D.Litt. (USQ),(29 September 1934 – 12 July 2014) was an Australian academic and author.[1][2]

Ken Goodwin was the first of his family to attend university.[3] After obtaining a BA Hons. and a Dip. Ed. from the University of Sydney he taught at a New South Wales high school and Wagga Wagga Teachers' College. In 1959 he accepted a position as a lecturer in English in the Department of External Studies at The University of Queensland.

In the 1997 Australia Day Honours Goodwin was made an Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his service to literature, art administration and education.[4]

Publications

His publications include:

  • A history of Australian literature London : Macmillan, 1986.[5]
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gollark: That sounds quite bad.
gollark: Maybe. It's hard to judge. If you average across all platforms ever, then probably.
gollark: I fear it.
gollark: The very ominously named "online safety bill" is very ominous and would impose ridiculous compliance requirements on basically everything, as well as allowing the media regulator to block sites which don't comply, as well as in a plausibly-deniable way banning end to end encryption, as well as requiring all web platform things to censor "harmful content".

References
  1. "Ken L. Goodwin". AustLit. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  2. "In memory of Professor Kenneth Goodwin (School of English, Media Studies and Art History) 1934 - 2014". University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. Tiffin, Chris (2014). "Emeritus Professor Ken Goodwin AM" (PDF). Fryer Folios (August): 28. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  4. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/Honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=881003&search_type=simple&showInd=true
  5. Goodwin, K. L. (Ken Leslie) (1986), A history of Australian literature, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-36405-5
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