Eva Hornung
Eva Hornung is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism. The Last Garden won the SA Premier’s Award for fiction (2018) and Dog Boy won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. Her earlier novels published as Eva Sallis, include Hiam and The Marsh Birds. Philip Waldron supervised her academic work: Scheherazade Through the Looking Glass: the Metamorphosis of the 1001 Nights. Curzon (now Routledge) UK 1998 and it is still in print. Eva lives in rural South Australia.
All essays by Eva Hornung
A Private Life: Philip Waldron
If you google Philip Waldron, you will not find him. For a man whose career spanned decades in university teaching, in an environment in which academics were told to publish or perish, his research output, as publications are sometimes termed, was almost nonexistent. His passion for literature was articulated on the unfashionable humanist end of the critical spectrum, and he felt only impatience for literary theory. He never bothered to do a PhD, and was one of the last lecturers qualified by MA only in the Department of English at the University of Adelaide. He sounds like a misfit in the modern university, and in many ways he was.