Humanities and Social Sciences

English Program

Staff Directory

Major research and teaching areas:

• re-situating modernism in colonial and decolonising contexts
• nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing
• feminist and gender theory
• decolonising theory
• historical approaches to Caribbean literature

Current research projects:

Anglophone Caribbean (auto)biography, plantation slavery, and the traffic of colonial reform and modernization, 1807-1834 [funded by the Australian Research Council 2009-2001]

Polly Teale's late expressionist theatre

Publications:

Books:

• Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xi + 170pp. See http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280684
• Ed. Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. xx + 325pp. See http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Victorian-traffic--Identity--Exchange--Performance1-84718-455-3.htm
• (co-authored with Ann Blake and Leela Gandhi) England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction, Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave, 2001. 207pp. See http://www.palgrave.com/products/titles.aspx?PID=258848
• The Worlding of Jean Rhys, Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 1999. 20pp. See http://www.greenwood.com/books/printFlyer.aspx?sku=GM1092&location=international

Bibliographical monographs:

Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952): A Bibliography, Victorian Fiction Research Guides 22, St. Lucia: Dept. of English, University of Queensland, 1994.

Seven other bibliographical monographs in the Victorian Fiction Research Guides series. See http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-humanities/Media/victorian-research-fiction/

Guest editor:

• Ed. (with Leela Gandhi) Returning the Gaze. New Literatures Review 39 (2003).
• Ed. Decolonising Bodies, New Literatures Review: Decolonising Literatures 30 (winter 1995).

Recent articles and book chapters:

• "A Balance of Stories."Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the "New" Literary Representations . Ed. Sumanyu Satpathy. New Delhi : Routledge, New Delhi , 2009. 3-16.

• "Christianity and the State of Slavery in Jane Eyre ." Victorian Literature and Culture . 35.1 (2007): 57-79.
• "Pathologies of Sexuality, Empire and Slavery: D.M. Thomas's Charlotte . " A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre. Ed. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Amsterdam : Rodopi. 2007. 101-114.
• 'The spectre of "an empty bed": Debbie Shewell's More Than One Antoinette .'Jane Eyre : Past and Present, ed. Isabelle Roblin and Armelle Perry. Special issue of LISA e-journal 4.4 (2006): 131-143. http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/publicationsFr.php .
• Ed. The Suffragette. Anti-Feminism in Edwardian Literature . Ed. Ann Heilmann and Lucy Delap. 6 vols. Bristol : Thoemmes Continuum/Edition Synapse, 2006. Vol. 3. iv + 71 pp.
• 'Frieda Cassin's With Silent Tread and the spectre of leprosy in Antigua and Britain 1889-1891.' Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal . 4.1 (Spring 2006): 12pp. http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium .
• 'Crying "the horror" of prostitution: Elizabeth Robins's " Where Are You Going To...? " and the Moral Crusade of the Women's Social and Political Union.' Women: A Cultural Review 16.2 (2005): 203-221.
• 'Pringle v. Cadell and Wood v. Pringle: The Libel Trials over The History of Mary Prince .' Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40.1 (2005): 113-135.
• 'Remembering Catherine Whitfield, Ann King and Betty Jackson: Jean Rhys and Kamau Brathwaite's Slave Sublime.' Atlantic Literary Review 5.4 (Oct.-Dec. 2004): 146-163.
• 'Jean Rhys Writing White Creole Childhoods.' Life Writing and the Generations . Ed. Richard Freadman and John Gatt-Rutter. Special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 19.1-2 (Summer and Winter 2004): 203-221.
• 'Jean Rhys's Cardboard Doll's Houses.'Caribbean . Special issue of Kunapipi XXVI.1 (2004): 39-53.
• 'V.S. Naipaul.' West Indian Intellectuals in Britain . Ed. Bill Schwarz. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2003. 228-247.
• 'Rewriting the Hysteric as Anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions.' Scenes of the Apple: Hunger and Appetite as Metaphor in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing . Ed. Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran. Albany : State U of New York P, 2003. 183-198.
• 'Elizabeth Robins, the "New Woman" Novelist, and the Writing of Literary Histories of the 1890s' Feminist Forerunners: New Womanism and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century . Ed. Ann Heilmann. London : Pandora, 2003. 122-135, 217-222.
• 'The Suffragettes: Scandal English Style.' New Literatures Review 39 (summer 2003): 37-58.
• 'Scenes in the Writing of "Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, Spinster": Contextualizing a Cross-Class Dresser.' Words as Deeds: Literary and Historical Perspectives on Women's Suffrage . Ed. Ann Heilmann. Special issue of Women's History Review 12.1 (2003): 51-71.
• 'Thinking through "[t]he grey disease of sex hatred": Jean Rhys's "Till September Petronella."' Jean Rhys . Ed. Mary Lou Emery. Special issue of Journal of Caribbean Literatures 3.3 (Summer 2003): 77-90.
• 'Jean Rhys, "Human Ants" and the Production of Expatriate Creole Identities.' Constructing British Identities: Texts, Sub-texts, and Contexts . Ed. Andrew Benjamin and Robbie B.H. Goh. New York : Peter Lang, 2002. 56-72.
• 'White Gothic in Jane Eyre , Wide Sargasso See, and The Albatross Muff .' To the Islands: Australian and the Caribbean . Ed. Russell McDougall. Special issue of Australian Cultural History 21 (2002): 89-96, 122-124.
• '"[T]earing me in two so slowly so slowly": Jean Rhys's Representations of Abortion.'The Jean Rhys Review 12.1 (2002): 7-27.

Editorial work:

• Postcolonial Studies
• New Literatures Review

Recent Keynote addresses:

Writing, Diaspora and the Legacy of Slavery, Goldsmiths, University of London, 27-28 April 2007

Past the Post? (New) Literatures in English in a Globalized World, University of Delhi, 7-9 December 2005

Current office in professional association:

Treasurer, Australian Association for Caribbean Studies