Staff profile

Dr Kay Souter

Associate Dean (Education), Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Hu3 314, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (LaTrobe).

Area of study

English

Recent Publications

Edited Books:

  • Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment. With M Keppell and M Riddle. IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, 2011.
  • An Endless Winter’s Night: An anthology of Mother-Daughter relationships in Indian Literature.  With Ira Raja. New Delhi, Women Unlimited Press , 2010.

Book Chapters:

  • ‘Learning, living and knowing spaces: Margins, interstices, liminalities’. With Warren Sellers, 50%. Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment. Ed. Keppel, Riddle, Souter. IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, 2011.
  • ‘Between two worlds: a narrative of the split self’. Southern Postcolonialisms. Ed. Isabel Hofmeyr and Sumanyu Satpathy. New Delhi, Routledge, 2009.
  • ‘She our Gudja: Representations of mothering, race and relatedness in some Aboriginal autobiography’. Australia-- Who Cares. Ed. David Callahan.  Perth, Network Books, 2007.
  • ‘Loss, Losing it and the Tragicomic Performative in the Plays of Samuel Beckett’. Agamemnon’s mask: Greek Tragedy and Beyond. Ed. Anjana Sharma and Terry Collits. New Delhi, Macmillan India, 2007.

Articles in refereed journals:

  • ‘The War Memoirs: Some origins of the thought of W.R. Bion’. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 90, issue 4 (August), 2009.
    • Rpt in: The Annuals of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (Turkish edition, in Turkish, ed. B Habip). 2010.
    • Rpt in: Internationale Pyschoanalyse 2010.(translated into German, ed. A. Mauss-Hanke). 2010.
  • ‘Virtual connections: technologies of reproduction, culture and the growth of love in some contemporary fiction’. Women and Technologies of Reproduction: A Special Issue of Women’s Studies International Forum. Ed. Maggie Kirkman and Jane Fisher. Volume 31, issue 4 July-August, 2008.
  • ‘‘Mothering Siblings: Constructions of Motherhood in Indo-Diasporic Cinema’. With Ira Raja, 50%. Narrative. Vol. 16, 2008.
  • ‘ “It’s much easier to get help for the baby”: Women and postpartum health’. With JaneMaree Maher, 50%. Health Sociology Review. Volume 15/1-2,  2006