Overview
Background
Dr Lee McGowan is a researcher, writer, and teacher. He has been awarded Category 2 and 3 grant funding. His publications include journal articles, book chapters, a digital history, an exhibition, fiction, and creative non-fiction. In 15 years of learning and teaching, he has designed, delivered, and coordinated programs and courses in higher degree research, postgraduate coursework, and undergraduate studies. He has accumulated 19 HDR completions to date and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lee’s primary research interests are in the intersections of creative writing, sport, and community engagement. In 2024 he co-authored Women’s Football in Oceania (Routledge) and Beach Soccer Histories (Routledge). Before that, he co-edited an anthology on Intersections of Creative Writing and Sport (Springer 2023), wrote Football in Fiction: a history (Routledge 2019) and co-authored Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football (New South 2019). His new co-authored monograph, Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism (Palgrave), will be published in early 2026. He is currently working up a small number of new writing projects.
Availability
- Dr Lee McGowan is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology
Research interests
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Creative Writing: Fiction & Creative non-fiction
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Sports Writing
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Football Writing
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Sports Histories
Works
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2020
Journal Article
Introduction
Lee, McGowan, Alex, Philp and Jeffery, Ella (2020). Introduction. Text, 24 (Special 59), 1-6. doi: 10.52086/001c.23454
2020
Journal Article
Collaboration and its discontents: considerations for creative writing HDR students collaborating on traditional research outputs
Philp, Alex, Jeffery, Ella and McGowan, Lee (2020). Collaboration and its discontents: considerations for creative writing HDR students collaborating on traditional research outputs. Text, 24 (Special 59), 1-18. doi: 10.52086/001c.23482
2020
Journal Article
An exploration of goal scoring strategies in an elite beach soccer tournament
Lastella, Michele, Escobar, Luiz, Lovell, Geoff P., Scanlan, Aaron, Ellison, Elizabeth, McGowan, Lee and Guy, Joshua H. (2020). An exploration of goal scoring strategies in an elite beach soccer tournament. Science and Medicine in Football, 4 (3), 192-195. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2020.1758759
2020
Journal Article
Building Fields of Play: An examination of the use of notational analysis to reinterpret dynamic and sequential movement from Rugby Union to inform the creation of a new dance work
McLay, Grant, McGowan, Lee, Moyle, Gene and Frossard, Laurent (2020). Building Fields of Play: An examination of the use of notational analysis to reinterpret dynamic and sequential movement from Rugby Union to inform the creation of a new dance work. Choreographic Practices, 11 (1), 163-185. doi: 10.1386/chor_00017_1
2020
Conference Publication
In not being ‘One of the Lads: An examination of the role of the female fan in “FeverPitch.”
Symons, Kasey and McGowan, Lee (2020). In not being ‘One of the Lads: An examination of the role of the female fan in “FeverPitch.”. 37th Sport Literature Association Annual Conference, Online, 17-20 June 2020.
2020
Journal Article
Sea-level playing fields: an exploration of the histories of beach soccer and its practices within one specific context, the Australian beach
McGowan, Lee, Ellison, E. and Lastella, M. (2020). Sea-level playing fields: an exploration of the histories of beach soccer and its practices within one specific context, the Australian beach. Soccer and Society, 21 (3), 289-298. doi: 10.1080/14660970.2019.1620212
2020
Book Chapter
Australian beach soccer: tracing paradoxical narratives
McGowan, Lee, Ellison, Elizabeth and Lastella, Michele (2020). Australian beach soccer: tracing paradoxical narratives. Writing the Australian beach. (pp. 181-194) edited by Elizabeth Ellison and Donna Lee Brien. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-35264-6_11
2020
Journal Article
Creating collaborative capacity in early career research writers
McGowan, Lee, Philp, Alex and Jeffery, Ella (2020). Creating collaborative capacity in early career research writers. Text (Australia), 24 (Special issue 59). doi: 10.52086/001C.23460
2020
Edited Outputs
Text. Volume 24, Special Issue Number 59: Creating communities: Collaboration in creative writing and research
Text. Volume 24, Special Issue Number 59: Creating communities: Collaboration in creative writing and research. (2020). 24 (59)
2019
Book
Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football
Crawford, Fiona and McGowan, Lee (2019). Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football. Sydney, NSW Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
2019
Other Outputs
Creative engagement with the APR Intern program for practitioner-researchers
Gattenhof, Sandra, McGowan, Lee and Hancox, Donna (2019, 10 04). Creative engagement with the APR Intern program for practitioner-researchers NiTRO - Non Traditional Research Outcomes
2019
Book
Football in fiction: a history
McGowan, Lee (2019). Football in fiction: a history. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429344053
2019
Journal Article
Women’s association football (Soccer) in Brisbane, Queensland 1921–1933: New perspectives on early competition
McGowan, Lee (2019). Women’s association football (Soccer) in Brisbane, Queensland 1921–1933: New perspectives on early competition. Sport in History, 39 (2), 187-206. doi: 10.1080/17460263.2019.1602075
2019
Journal Article
Dirty Hands: Community engagement through practice as research
McGowan, Lee, Hancox, Donna and Philp, Alex (2019). Dirty Hands: Community engagement through practice as research. Social Alternatives, 38 (1), 3-4.
2019
Journal Article
Senses of Community: Place-making and digital narrative through embodied practice
Gattenhof, Sandra, Sibthorpe, Nathan, Hancox, Donna, McGowan, Lee and Oancea, Sorin (2019). Senses of Community: Place-making and digital narrative through embodied practice. Social Alternatives, 38 (1), 21-29.
2018
Journal Article
The Challenges Remain: A 'new' view of old perspectives on the history of women's football in Australia
McGowan, Lee and Downes, Greg (2018). The Challenges Remain: A 'new' view of old perspectives on the history of women's football in Australia. Social Alternatives, 37 (2), 62-70.
2017
Journal Article
Iterative multimodality: An exploration of approaches to transmedia writing
Lynch, Daniel, McGowan, Lee and Hancox, Donna (2017). Iterative multimodality: An exploration of approaches to transmedia writing. Text, 21 (2), 1-12. doi: 10.52086/001c.25232
2017
Other Outputs
From banned to international glory, women's soccer has sown a rich field for the future
McGowan, Lee (2017, 02 09). From banned to international glory, women's soccer has sown a rich field for the future The Conversation doi: 10.64628/AA.erukwttdt
2017
Book Chapter
Football and its fiction
McGowan, Lee (2017). Football and its fiction. Routledge handbook of football studies. (pp. 222-235) edited by John Hughson, Kevin Moore, Ramón Spaaij and Joseph Maguire. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203066430
2015
Journal Article
Scripted drama: The long wait for football to be taken seriously as a literary subject
McGowan, Lee and O'Donnell, Stephen (2015). Scripted drama: The long wait for football to be taken seriously as a literary subject. The Blizzard, 116-125.
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
A Father Made of Hounds and an Uncle Made of Storms: Re-imagining Father Son Dynamics in Fantasy Fiction.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Helen Marshall, Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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Doctor Philosophy
Mechanics of Imagination: Arthur Coghlan and Generative AI in Creative Nonfiction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Helen Marshall, Professor Kim Wilkins
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