Humanities and Social Sciences

English Program

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Publications

My main research areas are: early modern literature and literary history, especially prose fiction, Women’s writing, literature and politics, Shakespeare and authorship, scholarly editing, and book history; and Australian literature, especially contemporary fiction and its social and global contexts.

List of recent publications

• ‘Narrative Contexts for Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis’, in Bronwen Price and Simon Wortham, eds., Francis Bacon: New Atlantis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, Texts in Culture series, 2003).
• ‘Early Modern Women’s Prose Fiction’, in Anita Pacheco, ed., A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
• ‘Early Modern (Aristocratic) Women and Textual Property’, in Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England, ed. Nancy Wright, Margaret Ferguson and A.R. Buck (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)
• [Ed.] Aphra Behn, Oroonoko and Other Works (Oxford: World's Classics, 1994), reprinted 1998, rev. edn. 2000.
• [Ed.] Early Modern Women’s Writing: An Anthology (Oxford: World’s Classics, 2000).
• [Ed. with Jo Wallwork and introduction] Women Writing 1550-1750 (Bundoora: Meridian, 2001).
• Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
• Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• 'Placing Tudor Fiction', Yearbook of English Studies 38 (2008), 136-49.
• [Co-written with Ken Gelder] After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007 (Melbourne University Press, 2009). http://catalogue.mup.com.au/978-0-522-85597-5.html

Teaching

I teach a number of subjects in the areas of Renaissance/early modern literature; Shakespeare; the short story; and literary theory.

Graduate supervision

I have supervised postgraduate students in the areas of sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, including Shakespeare, women’s writing, poetry and drama, and in Australian literature.

List of current topic areas

• Jacobean tragedy and film noir
• Jealousy in Shakespeare
• Film adaptations of Shakespeare
• Dymphna Cusack

Research Grants

I currently hold an ARC grant (2007-2009) for an online addition of Mary Wroth's poetry and contextual biography of her. I have also held a British Academy visiting overseas fellowship, a Merton College, Oxford, visiting research fellowship and an Oxford Brookes University visiting overseas fellowship.

Research projects

My research centres on early modern literature and Australian literature.

List of Research Projects

• An on-line edition of Mary Wroth's poetry including a biography and critical introduction
• Literature and politics in the 1620s