Rate My Professor Dennis Haskell

Haskell's research specializations encompass Australian literature, particularly twentieth-century and contemporary works; poetry from the medieval period to the present, with emphasis on English Romantics, Irish poetry, and twentieth-century and contemporary poetry; creative writing; Southeast Asian writing in English; literary modernism from 1890 to 1939; modernism and beyond; and post-colonial literature. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Who Would Know? (2024), And Yet... (2020), Ahead of Us (2016), and What Are You Doing Here? (2015), as well as fourteen volumes of literary scholarship and criticism. Notable awards include the Member of the Order of Australia (AM, 2015) for services to literature, particularly poetry, education, and intercultural understanding; the Western Australia Premier's Prize for Poetry; the A.A. Phillips Prize from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; and the Honorary DLitt from UWA. He co-edited the literary magazine Westerly from 1985 to 2009, chaired the Australia Council's Literature Board from 2009 to 2011, serves on the Westerly Centre Board, and is Secretary of the Perth PEN Centre since 2018. His contributions have been recognized through dedicated journal issues and involvement in ARC-funded projects such as AustLit.