University of Sydney

Graduate Student, English

Thesis Title: In the eyes of the dead: science, superstition and the murder of PC George Gutteridge

About

Jo Chipperfield is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Sydney. She is also a successful freelance copywriter and editor and continues to work in this capacity part-time. Jo holds a BA (1st class Hons) in English Language and Literatures and MA (Dist.) in Post-colonial Literatures (Hull University 1995 & 1999). Her MA dissertation was on the short fiction of Peter Carey and Robert Drewe. She also holds a Grad. Cert. in Editing and Publishing (UTS 2007) and is undertaking a Grad. Cert. in Innovation and Enterprise.
Her research interests include modernism, gender studies and feminism, crime writing, media and communications, and the impact of technology on society and culture. The working title of her PhD thesis is ‘In the eyes of the dead: science, superstition and the murder of PC George Gutteridge’.
Jo is also currently a tutor at Sydney University.