Staff profile

Professor Paul Salzman

Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Humanities 2, room 517, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Hons (Monash), PhD (Cantab).

Membership of professional associations

Fellow of Australian Humanities Academy.

Area of study

English
Australian Studies

Brief profile

Paul's academic interests include early modern writing (especially writing by women, sixteenth and seventeenth century prose, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century cultural history) and contemporary Australian writing.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Contemporary Australian literature

- Early modern literature especially scholarly editing, women's writing, cultural history.

Teaching units

  • ENG1ILS - Introducing Literature: the short story.
  • ENG3HSA - Honours Seminar A.
  • ENG2/3REV - Renaissance Voices and counter voices.

Recent publications

  • ‘Anne Clifford: Writing for Oneself, Writing for Others’, Parergon 27 (2010).
  • After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2009), 292pp. [co-written – 50% - with Ken Gelder].
  • Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 247pp.
  • Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 268pp.

Research projects

  • Literature and Politics in the 1620s
  • An on-line edition of Mary Wroth's poetry including a biography and critical introduction: http://wroth.latrobe.edu.au/