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Melbourne (Bundoora) Academic Staff

 

Name Position Research/Teaching Interests Telephone Email
Dr Susan Bradley Smith Honours Co-ordinator and Lecturer

'Cultural historian with particular interests in life writing (memoir/biography/oral history/ethics), contemporary poetry, Australian literature, and writing and health intiatives.'		 +61 3 9479 2406 s.bradleysmith@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Laura Carroll Lecturer Literature to film adaptation: Jane Austen; book illustration; censorship and literary scandals; narrative theory; Stanley Cavell. +61 3 9479 2398 l.carroll@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Alexis Harley Lecturer Auto/biography and life-writing; Victorian Literature +61 3 9479 2389 a.harley@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Sue Martin Associate Professor Australian literature generally, especially fiction, and with a special interest in nineteenth century Australian literature; women’s writing; gender studies and theory; Spatial theory; garden history/culture; nineteenth century /Victorian American and English fiction; Canadian women writers, especially Atwood and Shields; Thomas Pynchon. +61 3 9479 1205 s.martin@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Catherine Padmore Lecturer Fiction writing (including technical and discursive elements); women's writing; feminist theories; and migration stories. +61 3 9479 3370 c.padmore@latrobe.edu.au
Mr Chris Palmer

Head of CACE School and Associate Professor

Postmodern fiction and theory; Science Fiction, especially contemporary; Adaptation theory (novel into film); contemporary crime fiction; the fiction of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks, William Gibson; the criticism of Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton. +61 3 9479 2403 c.palmer@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Alison Ravenscroft Postgraduate Co-ordinator and Senior Lecturer American modernism and postmodernism; contemporary Australian writing; including Indigenous textuality; feminist literary theory; critical race theory and whiteness studies +61 3 9479 2813 a.ravenscroft@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Paul Salzman Associate Professor Early modern writing (especially writing by women; sixteenth and seventeenth century prose; sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century cultural history); contemporary Australian writing; scholarly editing. +61 3 9479 2395 p.salzman@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Kay Souter Associate Professor Literature and Medicine; Literature and Post-Kleinian psychoanalysis; W R Bion; Women’s writing; nineteenth century fiction; social learning. +61 3 9479 1423 k.souter@latrobe.edu.au
Dr David Tacey Associate Professor Research Interests: Jungian Studies and Analytical Psychology; applications of Analytical Psychology to the study of Literature and Culture; Religion and Myth; Spirituality Studies. Teaching Interests: Jung's Cultural Psychology; Derrida and Contemporary Philosophy; the history of the Short Story; Theories of Transcendence; Australian Literature. +61 3 9479 1042 d.tacey@latrobe.edu.au
Professor Sue Thomas Program Co-ordinator and Professor Decolonising literatures (Caribbean, African, ‘black’ British, the transculturation of modernism, ‘tropical Gothic’, and some Australian and Canadian topics); nineteenth and twentieth century women’s writing in Britain; feminist theory and theories of cultural and literary decolonisation; historical reading practice; Jean Rhys; Charlotte Bronte; histories of racial thinking; ‘whiteness’ as a historical racial category. +61 3 9479 2392 s.thomas@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Iain Topliss Senior Lecturer Literature and Journalism (with special reference to the New Yorker); postmodern fiction (Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes); nineteenth century fiction (Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth); the theory and practice of humour. +61 3 9479 2387 i.topliss@latrobe.edu.au

 

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Melbourne (Bundoora) Administrative Staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Ms Christine Burns Administrative Officer +61 3 9479 2390 c.burns@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Loretta Calverley Administrative Officer +61 3 9479 2412 l.calverley@latrobe.edu.au

Albury-Wodonga Academic Staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Damien Barlow Associate Lecturer +61 2 6024 9808 d.barlow@latrobe.edu.au

Bendigo Academic Staff

Name Position Research/Teaching Interests Telephone Email
Dr Sofia Ahlberg-MacInnes Lecturer   +61 3 5444 7547 s.ahlberg@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Claire Knowles Lecturer Claire's research and interests and areas of supervision include: Romanticism, in particular, romantic popular culture and female writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; female literary history; gothic fiction, film and television; and popular fiction +61 3 5444 7547 c.knowles@latrobe.edu.au

Mildura Academic Staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Mr Mike Nolan Tutor +61 3 9479 5124 mikenolan@optusnet.com.au

Honorary Asscociates

Name Position Research Interests Telephone Email
Ann Blake Honorary Associate Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre. Sheridan and eighteenth-century theatre. Crime fiction   annblake@myinbox.net.au
Dr Craig Horton Honorary Associate      
Dr Greg Kratzmann Honorary Associate Australian biography and autobiography, Australian poetry, late medieval poetry and prose in England and Scotland, renaissance poetry +61 3 9479 2397 g.kratzmann@latrobe.edu.au
Mr Shane Maloney Honorary Associates

Shane Maloney is the author of the Murray Whelan series, comic thrillers that display delightful irony as well as political backstabbing and insightful commentary on everyday life. The brush-off have been made into telemovies starring David Wenham in the role of Murray Whelan

 

s.maloney@latrobe.edu.au

 
Dr John Stuyfbergen Acting Director of USBA Award winning short story writer. Acting Director of the Unit of Studies in Auto/Biography and Biography. Area of research - life writing, especially of migrants/refugees +61 9479 5894 j.stuyfbergen@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Rebecca Waese Honorary Associate Rebecca's work compares the dramatization of history in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction. She is co-author of an upcoming article of Jane Austen's Persuasion and Roger Michell's film Persuasion for inclusion in a volume titled, Adaptation: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film.   r.waese@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Karen Welberry Honorary Associate Research interests are Romanticism, Postcolonialism, and the Australian Gothic, as well as Literature and the Enviroment, with special reference to the representation of the Australian wild horse or brumby. Karen is still pursuing research interests in connection to Australian writer/musician Nick Cave (with reference to all the above).   karenstuart@optusnet.com.au
Professor John Wiltshire Honorary Associate Eighteenth century literature; literature of the Romantic period (especially Jane Austen); Literature and Medicine (Oliver Sacks, narratives of ageing and of care-giving; disease and metaphor); Psychoanalytic Theory (especially Winnicott, Bion and Jessica Benjamin); ethnography and medical writing; Shakespeare and the ‘afterlife’ of his plays; adaptation theory (literary texts and filmic adaptations). +61 3 9479 2397 j.wiltshire@latrobe.edu.au

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