Cirrus@Austlit

Dennis Schofield grew up in Melbourne. He trained as a classroom music teacher, taught classical guitar and became a travelling school tutor and correspondence school coordinator for a group of circus children. In 1984 he began studying Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia. Schofield began working as a part-time tutor at that institution in 1990. He completed a PhD in Literature at Deakin University, Victoria, in 1998.