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English Program
Staff Directory
| Dr Iain Topliss |
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Position: Senior Lecturer
Room: HU2 525
Tel: +61 3 9479 2387
Fax: +61 3 9479 3637
Email: i.topliss@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Monash), MA, PhD (Cambridge)
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Main research areas:
1: Twentieth century literature and culture, especially:
- Humour in twentieth-century society and culture
- Recent British and American fiction
- Cartooning, graphic humour and illustration
2: Early 19th century literature, especially:
- Early nineteenth-century fiction
- Romanticism and Romantic Poetry
Current projects:
- A biography of the American artist and illustrator Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)
Major Teaching Areas:
- Romanticism
- 19th & 20th c. Narrative
- Humour in Twentieth-century Literary and Popular Culture
- Recent North American and British Fiction
Recent Publications:
- 'Pride and Prejudice: The Favourite Novel?', Sensibilities: The Journal of The Jane Austen Society of Australia (December, 2004).
- The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2005).
- "Iain Topliss", an interview by Leslie Wilson, in Leslie Wilson (ed.), Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture (Press Americana, 2006).
- 'Saul Steinberg: En Ligne Directe', introduction to Saul Steinberg, Poche Illustrateur series (Paris, Delpire Editeur, May 2008).
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