Papers of Gerry Turcotte
MSS 050
Collection Title
Papers of Gerry TurcotteCollection Identifier
MSS 050Inclusive date(s)
1985 to 1991Extent and Medium
Creator(s)
Category
Subject: Person(s)
Subject: Organisation(s)
Collection Description
Papers, scripts, drafts, etc. including Turcotte's prose and poetry, papers on issue N°31 of Span, papers on the University of Sydney 'Writer's Choice' evening talks and Turcotte's Writers in Action, correspondence with authors.
Administrative / Biographical history
Gerry Turcotte was born in Montreal and grew up speaking both French and English, an experience that is frequently explored in his early poetry. A British Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Award for doctoral work brought him to the University of Sydney where he completed a PhD thesis on Australian and English-Canadian gothic fiction in 1991. During his studies he published a number of poems in Australian magazines and many of these were collected in Neigbourhood of Memory: Poems, 1985-89. He was appointed lecturer at the University of Wollongong where he remained until taking up the position of Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, in 2007. In addition to his academic work, Turcotte has published several more collections of poetry, including Border Crossings: Words and Images (2004) that combines poetry and prose with photographs taken during the previous two decades. Turcotte's interest in the issue of linguistic differences is further explored in Flying in Silence (2001), his first novel. In 2011 Dr Gerry Turcotte was selected as the President of St Mary's University College, Calgary, Canada.
References:
Author record, Gerry Turcotte, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved 18/10/2018].
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
This collection relates to prose and poetry by Gerry Turcotte, as well as to issue N°31 of the journal Span, Turcotte's book Writers in action and the University of Sydney 'Writer's Choice' evening talks. The papers consist of annotated drafts, correspondence with authors and transcripts of talks by authors. The collection also includes audio visual material with recordings of talks by authors invited to the 'Writer's Choice' evening talks.
Date Range of Content
1985-1991
Access Restrictions
Other
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: No copying is approved.
Preferred Citation
Papers of Gerry Turcotte, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 050, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Provenance
The collection was acquired in 1987, 1990 and 1994.
Existence and Location of Orginals
Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.