UQ welcomes new Arts Executive Dean

On January 1, The University of Queensland welcomed the new Faculty of Arts Executive Dean, Professor Nancy Wright.

Professor Wright has managerial responsibilities for the faculty’s four schools, three research centres, and various other research and teaching units.

At UQ Professor Wright will manage the Bachelor of Arts degree, which offers nearly 50 majors across all six faculties of the University.

Professor Wright joins UQ from the College of Arts at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) where she was Deputy Dean of the College of Arts and Head of the School of Humanities and Languages.

Prior to her appointment at UWS, Professor Wright held positions at the University of Newcastle, NSW, and at Yale University, USA. She has been Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) and the University of Florida-Gainesville (USA).

She has held fellowships at many international research centres, including the Humanities Research Centre (ANU), the Huntington Library (USA), the John Carter Brown Library (USA) and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society (Canada).

Professor Wright's own research examines the concept of property rights in early modern England and nineteenth-century Australia. She was Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Property Rights (2002-2006) at the University of Newcastle.

She has recently completed a research project funded by the Australian Research Council about ideas of ownership and authorship held by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians collaborating on film and literature from 1960 to 2005.

Media: Dania Lawrence (07 3365 9163, d.lawrence@uq.edu.au )