Humanities and Social Sciences

English Program

Staff Directory

Research interests:

Cultural and critical theories of the production of gender, race and sexuality; narrative form and representation; contemporary Australian literature, including fiction and lifestory, and especially Indigenous literature; book culture and the relations of textual production, including editing and publishing.

Current projects:

• Indigenous texts and white reading practices.

Fiction writing:

• Winner of the Josephine Ulrick Literature Award 2005 "Object Lessons" Griffith Review 10, November, 2005: 189-192 and reprinted in Best Australian Stories edited by Frank Moorhouse, Melbourne: Black Inc. 2005: 164-169

Teaching areas:

• Contemporary Feminist Theory (CFT)
• American Literature in the Twentieth Century (ALT)
• Black writing: white reading (RBA - honours and postgraduate)
• Poetics of Transgression (POT honours and postgraduate)

PUBLICATIONS IN THE MAJOR RESEARCH FIELD

• Making us Modern: Australian Writing in Modernity, introduced and edited by Alison Ravenscroft, special edition Australian Feminist Studies, 18(42), November 2003
• Auntie Rita, Jackie & Rita Huggins, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994 Shortlisted Nita B. Kibble Award 1995

• Panel Series Editor: Genders and Sexualities in History: New Directions in Scholarship, Palgrave Macmillan

REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS IN THE FIELD

• "Points of incorporation: embodiment, difference and ways of seeing", Forensic Futures: Life, Law and Bio-Politics edited by Rosa Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming: acceptance date: December 2007)
• "The reader becomes what she has read: reading, writing, whiteness", Australian Literary Criticism and Theory, edited by David Carter and Wang Guanglin, Edinburgh University Press/China Ocean University Press (series Literary Theory and Criticism in English) (forthcoming; acceptance date April 2008)
• "Coming to matter: the grounds of our embodied difference", Postcolonial Studies 10(3) September, 2007: 287-300
• "Who is the white subject?" Australian Humanities Review42, August 2007 http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/
• "Anxieties of dispossession: whiteness, history and Australian's war in Viet Nam", in Aileen Moreton-Robinson (ed.), Whitening Race: Essays in Cultural Criticism in Australia, Canberra: AIATSIS, 2004: 3-16
• "The girl in the picture and the eye of her beholder: Viet Nam, whiteness, and the disavowal of Indigeneity", Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 18(4) December, 2004: 509-524
• "Recasting Indigenous lives along the lines of western desire: editing, autobiography, and the colonising project", A/B: Auto/Biography Studies (Wisconsin USA) 19(1&2), 2004: 189-202
• A picture in black and white: modernism, postmodernism and the scene of 'race'", Making us Modern: Australian Writing in Modernity, special issue of Australian Feminist Studies, 18(42) November 2003: 233-244
• "'Curled up like a skinny black question mark': the irreducibility of gender and race in Vivienne Cleven's Bitin' Back", Australian Feminist Studies, 18(41) July, 2003: 187-197
• "The production of whiteness: revisiting Roberta Sykes's Snake dreaming", UTS Review, 7(2) November, 2001: 163-172
• "Strange and sanguine relations: Aboriginal writing and western book culture", Meridian, 16(2), October, 1997: 261-269

• "Breast, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience'. Australian Feminist Studies 2007 [Jennifer Loureide Biddle's book by that name, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007]
• "The narrator's art" The Age A2, 19 August, 2006: 22[Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (Giramondo 2006]
• "Writing towards the future", Australian Book Review, 275, October, 2005: 46-47 [review of Kim Scott and Hazel Brown, Kayang & Me FACP 2005]
• AUMLA, Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 97, 2002: 133-134 [Lorna Sage (ed). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Cambridge, Cambridge University press, 1999]
• Australian Feminist Studies, 16 (35), 2001: 247-248 [Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Talkin' up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, University of Queensland Press, 2002]
• "Bodily texts", Australian Book Review 277, December-January, 2000/2001: 17-18 [Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing compiled and edited by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas, Ontarion, Kegedonce Press; and Alice Springs, Jukurrpa Books, 2000]

• Rolling Column, Australian Book Review 219, April, 30-31, 2000 [commentary on Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place, by Daryl Tonkin & Carolyn Landon, Viking Books, 1999]
• "The politics of disclosure: an interview with Alexis Wright", Meridian 17(1) May, 1998: 75-80