AUT - Paul Mountfort

Dr Paul Mountfort

Programme Leader BA English and New Media Studies and BA Creative Writing

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 extension 7806

Email: pmountfo@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

PhD in English, Auckland, Master of Arts, Canterbury, BA, Canterbury

Biography:

Paul is the author of two full-length books on the uses of ancient letters in art, literature and transmedia, storytelling, and has been a regular speaker at the Popular/American Culture Association annual conferences, most recently in New Orleans in 2009 and San Francisco in 2008. 

He currently leads the undergraduate programmes in English and New Media Studies and Creative Writing to which he has brought a new media focus including the use of social bookingmarking, filterblogging and e-portfolios in learning and assessment. 

In 2006 he was awarded the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for his approach to research led, student directed learning. And in 2010 he received the AUSM/Awesome Best Post Graduate Supervisor at AUT.

Research areas:

• Popular Genres
• Transmedia storytelling
• Visual language
• New media and learning
• Hypermedia
• Digital literacies
• Ecological literacies.

Publications:

• 2009, April - 'Tarot Guidebooks as a Literary Genre', full conference paper, Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 2008, April - 'A Scanner Darkly: Visualizing Philip K. Dick's American Dystopias'; full conference paper, PCA/ACA Annual Conference, San Francisco, California.
• 2006, Mar - Chair, 'Post-humanity and Virtual Spaces' Panel (on cyberpunk for the SF/Fantasy area); PCA/ACA  Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2006, Mar - 'Oracle-text/Cybertext in The Man in the High Castle'; full conference paper, PCA/ACA  Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2005, Mar - 'Tarot: a machine for constructing stories’; full conference paper, PCA/ACA Annual Conference, San Diego, California.
• 2003, July - Nordic Runes, Rochester, Vermont: ITI/Destiny Books, 2003. Full-length book on rune scripts in history, letters and the imagination, released internationally.
• 2001, August - Ogam: The Celtic Oracle, London: Ebury Press/Random House, 2001. Full-length book on the ogam script in history, letters and the imagination; subsequently published under separate cover by ITI in the US in September of 2002, released internationally.

Popular Genres, Post-Colonial literature, digital literacy, e-portfolios

• 2007  Shortlisted, Best Lecturer (Applied Humanities Faculty), AuSM Awards, AUT University, New Zealand 2006. Awarded (Sole) Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, AUT.
• 2004 - Short-listed, Ashton Wylie Memorial Books Awards, best published book category, New Zealand Society of Authors/ Ashton Wylie Memorial Trust.
• 2004 - Short-listed, Ashton Wylie Memorial Books Awards, best unpublished manuscript category, New Zealand Society of Authors/ Ashton Wylie Memorial Trust.1998 - Awarded University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship; three year (36 month) emolument, plus payment of fees, University of Auckland.
• 2009, Oct - Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Tianjin University/Boustead College (on site research in Tianjin, China, into the integration of digital literacies in undergraduate English degree programmes).
• 2009, Sep - Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Shanghai Normal University (on-site research in Shanghai, China, into the integration of digital literacies in undergraduate English degree programmes).
• 2006 - Consortia membership: Research Associate of the AUT Institute of Culture and Discourse,'‘for scholars actively pursuing research interests in the broad area of communication'.
• 2005 - Awarded, Faculty of Applied Humanities Publication Grant, pursuant to developing 'Tarot: 'a machine for constructing stories'’ for future publication.

Awards:

• 1998 -  Awarded University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship; three year (36 month) emolument, plus payment of fees, University of Auckland.
• 2005 - Awarded, Faculty of Applied Humanities Publication Grant, pursuant to developing 'Tarot: 'a machine for constructing stories'’ for future publication
• 2006 - Awarded (Sole) Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, AUT.