MPHIL / RESEARCH ASSISTANT / TUTOR / PRESENTERPierce is an award-winning writer, director, librettist and dramaturg, currently studying for an MPhil in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.
Pierce has presented at conferences across Australasia, and currently is Research Assistant for Dr. Helen Marshall, acting as part of a group of academics at the University of Queensland working to translate skills drawn from SFF to help different industries, from medicine to defence, solve global problems such as climate change and the rise of AI. He was recently published in Jacaranda Magazine.
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONSRESEARCH & QUALIFICATIONSONGOING
Master of Philosophy (Creative Writing) - “What we hear when we read: dialogue, ekphrasis and the novel” - University of Queensland
COMPLETED
Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art (Directing) - National Institute of Dramatic Art (2012)
B.A. (English) – The University of Sydney (2007 – 2010)
CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS‘Learning to stage the novel’, Travelling Together: The Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Conference (The University of Auckland, Dec 2022)
‘Growing down with climate tragedies’, CCCW Symposium on Writing the Anthropocene (The University of Queensland, 2022)
‘The Great Chain of Being a Librettist’, CCCW Symposium on Adaptation and the Australian Novel (The University of Queensland, 2021)
‘Panel: From Fly Away Peter to Oscar & Lucinda’, New Opera Workshop (Griffith University, 2019)
‘Morals and Ambiguity’, Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Conference (Queensland University of Technology, 2012)