Humanities and Social Sciences

English Program

Staff Directory

Major research areas:

Nineteenth-century Australian writing, especially:

• Women's prose writing
• Writing dealing with space and place, especially gardens, domestic space and the bush

Twentieth-century Australian writing, especially:

• Australian women's fiction
• 'Historical' fiction
• Victorian Literature
• Gender and advertising

Major teaching areas:

• Nineteenth- and Twentieth century Australian literature
• Victorian literature
• Feminist theory and Cultural Studies

Selected Publications:

Books:

Reading the Garden: the Culture of Gardening in Australia co-authored scholarly book with Katie Holmes and Kylie Mirmohamadi, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, (2008).

Green Pens: an Anthology of Australian Garden Writing ed., with Katie Holmes and Kylie Mirmohamadi, Carlton: Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press, 2004

Women and Empire (Australia) edited documents with scholarly introduction and apparatus. Contracted to Routledge, ( 2008).

Chapters:

'Remembering the Self in the Colonial Garden: Gardens and Subjectivity', Memory, Monuments and Museums, ed Marilyn Lake. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2006: 182-193.

'Dead White Male Hero: True History of the Kelly Gang and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions', Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, ed. Andreas Gaile. Cross/Cultures 78. Amsterdam: Rodopi, October 2005: 301-17.

'Dead White Male heroes: Ned Kelly and Ludwig Leichhardt in Australian Fictions' in Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New World ed. Judith Ryan & Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (Harvard Committee on Austtralian Studies), 2004, chapter 2: 23-52.

'Captivating Reading: or, Nineteenth-century Australian Captivity Fiction as Tourist Guide to a non-Aboriginal Tasmania' in Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration ed. Graeme Harper London: Cassell New York, St Martins, 2001: 38-52.[ISBN 0 8264 4865 8]

'Why do all these women have moustaches…' in Authority and Influence Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 ed Delys Bird, Robert Dixon & Christopher Lee. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001.

'Captivating Fictions: Younäh!: A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge.' in Bodytrade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, ed Jeanette Hoorn & Barbara Creed. New York, Melbourne, Dunedin: Routledge, Pluto Press, University of Otago Press, 2001: 151-166. [isbn 0 415 93842 2, 186403 184 0, 1877276 12 X]

'Louisa Anne Meredith', 8000 word commissioned biographical entry Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 230 Australian Literature 1788-1914 First Series (ed. Selina Samuels). Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, Woodbridge Conn, USA: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2000 [ISBN 0 7876 4647 4]: 262-268.

'The Gender of Gardens: the Space of the Garden in Nineteenth-century Australia' in: Ruth Barcan & Ian Buchanan. Eds. Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry. Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, UWA/UWA Press. 1999: 115-125 [isbn:1 876268 37 9]

Public Presentations:

'Leichhardt and Australian Literature' National Musuem of Australia, available online through: http://www.nma.gov.au/audio/leichhardt_symposium/leichhardt_in_australian_literature/

Articles:

"us circling round and round;" The track of narrative and the ghosts of lost children in Such is Life. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Spectres, Screens, Shadows, Mirrors: JASAL Special Issue 2007. available online through:http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/issue/view/28 or click here to view PDF

'"hurry up them Pines": Gardens in Nineteenth-Century Australian Fiction', Occasional Papers Australian Garden History Volume 2,1 2006: 97-116

'The Newest Woman in a New World: Gender Anxiety and New Women in Turn-of- the Century Australian Fiction', ACH: Australian Cultural History 23 (2004): 163-176.

'Monuments in the Garden: The Garden Cemetry in Austalia', Postcolonial Studies, 7, 3, (2004): 333-352.

'The Wood from the Trees: Taxonomy and the Eucalypt as the New National Hero in Recent Australia Writing' Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 3, (2004): 81-94. Available online through: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/35 or click here to view PDF

'Gardening and the cultivation of Australian national space: the writings of Ethel Turner' Australian Feminist Studies 18, 42 (November 2003): 285-298.

'Getting a Head: Dismembering and Remembering in Robert Drewe's 'The Savage Crows'' Australian Literary Studies 21, 1 (May 2003): 54-66.

'On our selection: class, gender and the domestic garden in nineteenth-century Australia'. Australian number of Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: an international quarterly (formerly the 'Journal of Garden History' USA). 21, Part 1 (2001) [ISSN: 1460-1176]: 27-32.

'Public and Private Space in 1890s Australian Women's Gardens' in Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space. Eds Bonj Szczygiel, Josephine Carubia, and Lorraine Dowler; editors (Refereed, selected papers from conference of the same name) Pennsylvania State University, USA: Center for Studies in Landscape History, 2000 [isbn 1888901 02 0]

'Ladies and Grocer's Wives: The crisis of middle-class female subjectivity in 1890s Australian Women's fictions' Westerly Spring 1999, 1-13.