Thomas Keneally Schepisi's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978) (based on his own novel) and played Father Marshall in the award-winning film "The Devil's Playground" (1976), also by Schepisi. In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. Keneally was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 1985 to 1988 and President of the National Book Council from 1985 to 1989. Keneally was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to
Corinna S. Schindler Corinna S. Schindler Corinna S. Schindler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and Arts. Schindler grew up in Germany where she also did her undergraduate work. As an undergraduate, Schindler attended the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She completed her diploma thesis (equivalent of a master of science) under the direction of K. C. Nicolaou at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. Schindler earned her doctorate degree at the ETH Zurich under the direction of Erick M. Carreira.Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the development of new synthetic strategies of natural products centered