Humanities and Social Sciences

English Program

Research

Dr Susan Bradley Smith

Cultural historian and writer, with particular interests in poetry, theatre, and medical worlds

Dr Alexis Harley

Auto/biography and life-writing; Victorian Literature

Dr Claire Knowles

Claire's research and interests and areas of supervision include: Romanticism, in particular, romantic popular culture and female writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; female literary history; gothic fiction, film and television; and popular fiction

Dr Sue Martin

Australian literature generally, especially fiction, and with a special interest in nineteenth century Australian literature; women’s writing; gender studies and theory; Spatial theory; garden history/culture; nineteenth century /Victorian American and English fiction; Canadian women writers, especially Atwood and Shields; Thomas Pynchon.

Dr Catherine Padmore

Fiction writing (including technical and discursive elements); women’s writing; feminist theories; and migration stories.

Associate Professor Chris Palmer

Postmodern fiction and theory; Science Fiction, especially contemporary; Adaptation theory (novel into film); contemporary crime fiction; the fiction of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks, William Gibson; the criticism of Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton.

Dr Alison Ravenscroft

American modernism and postmodernism; contemporary Australian writing, including Indigenous textuality; feminist literary theory; critical race theory and whiteness studies

Dr Paul Salzman

Early modern writing (especially writing by women; sixteenth and seventeenth century prose; sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century cultural history); contemporary Australian writing; scholarly editing.

Dr Kay Souter

Literature and Medicine; Literature and Post-Kleinian psychoanalysis; intersubjectivity; feminism; W R Bion; Women’s writing; nineteenth century fiction.

Associate Professor David Tacey

Jungian and Post-Jungian Theory; Masculinity; literature and theory concerned with the Sacred; ecopsychology

Professor Sue Thomas

Decolonising literatures (Caribbean, African, ‘black’ British, the transculturation of modernism, ‘tropical Gothic’, and some Australian and Canadian topics); nineteenth and twentieth century women’s writing in Britain (especially ‘New Woman’ fiction and plays, suffragette writing, and female modernism); feminist theory and theories of cultural and literary decolonisation; historical reading practice; Jean Rhys; Charlotte Bronte; histories of racial thinking; ‘whiteness’ as a historical racial category.

Dr Iain Topliss

Literature and Journalism (with special reference to the New Yorker); postmodern fiction (Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes); nineteenth century fiction (Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth); the theory and practice of humour.

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