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English Program
Staff Directory
| Professor Richard Freadman |
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Position: Professor of English
Room: HU2 531
Tel: +61 3 9479 2406
Fax: +61 3 9479 3637
Email: r.freadman@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Hons. (Brandeis), DPhil (Oxford), Director, Unit for Studies in Biography and Autobiography |
Major research areas:
1. Nineteenth and early twentieth century fiction:
- George Eliot as novelist; her theory of the novel
- Henry James as novelist; his theory of the novel
- History of the novel
- Narrative theory
2. Literary theory/philosophy:
- Humanist literary theory
- Critique of some aspects of postmodern literary theory
- Theory of autobiography
- Relations between literary theory and aspects of philosophy
- Concepts of the self
- Ethics
3. Autobiography:
- History and theory of autobiography
- Post war intellectual and literary autobiography: eg., Hemingway, de Beauvoir, Spender
- Australian autobiography
- Relations between autobiography and ethics
- Ethnic and migrant autobiography
Current projects:
- A study of Australian Jewish autobiography
- An auto/biographical book about my father
Major teaching areas:
- Narrative and the novel
- Nineteenth and twentieth century literature and criticism/theory
- Autobiography and biography
- Writing autobiography
Major publications:
- Threads of Life: Autobiography and the will (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
- Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory (Cambridge, 1998) [Co-edited with Jane Adamson and David Parker]
- Rethinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) [Co-authored with Seumas Miller]
- Eliot, James and the Fictional Self: A Study in Character and Narration (London: Macmillan, 1986)
- On Literary Theory and Philosophy: A Cross-disciplinary encounter (London: Macmillan, 1991) [Edited with Lloyd Reinhardt]
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