Staff profile

Dr Lucy Jane Sussex

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 506, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Monash), MA (Monash), PhD (University of Wales).

Membership of professional Associations

ASAL, BSANZ, AVSA.

Area of study

English
Creative Arts

Brief Profile

Dr Lucy Sussex is both a creative writer and a scholar of l9th literature. She has written in the genres of crime, horror, children’s and speculative fiction, and published internationally. Her critical work ranges from bibliographies to the history of crime fiction, women’s writing, the Gothic and Australiana. She has also edited four anthologies, and editions of Mary Fortune and Ellen Davitt.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Crime fiction

- Popular fiction

- Victorian fiction

- Women’s writing

Teaching Units

ENG4/5WRF - Writing Fiction.

Recent Publications

Critical Work

 

  • Sussex, L 2010, (ed), Saltwater in the Ink: Voices from the Australian Seas, ASP, Melbourne.
  • Sussex, L 2010, Women Writers and Detectives in C19th Crime Writing: the Mothers of the Mystery Genre. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills and New York.
  • Forthcoming, edition of Mary Fortune’s Clyzia the Dwarf, with Udolpho Press.

 

Fiction

  • ‘Albert & Victoria/Slow Dreams’, in Baggage, ed. Gillian Polack, Eneit Press, Canberra, forthcoming.
  • Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, collection of short fiction, Ticonderoga Press, WA, forthcoming.

Research projects

  • Australian Writers and Journalists in 1890-1910 London, with Meg Tasker, University of Ballarat
  • The Nothing Hill Mystery, novel in progress