Staff profile

Dr Susan Bradley Smith

Senior Lecturer, Honours Coordinator (English)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Humanities 2, Room 514, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons), PhD, Dip. Ed.

Area of study

English
Creative Writing
Creative Arts

Brief Profile

Dr Susan Bradley Smith’s acadmic interests include women's theatre history, playwriting, feminist theory, life writing, Australian literature and drama, contemporary poetry, and writing and health.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Arcadian Hells: Australian Seachange Societies

- Modern Girl: A biography of Sarah Churchill

Teaching Units

 

ENG2/3WRP - Writing Poetry. ENG4MML - Minds, madness and literature. ENG4RWM - Reading, writing memoirs.

Recent Publications

Books Authored:

  • Dramatic Negotiations: Australian Suffrage Theatre, Anthem, London, forthcoming 2011.
  • Friday Forever, Radcliffe, Oxford, forthcoming 2011.
  • Super Modern Prayer Book, Salt, Cambridge, forthcoming 2010.
  • Marmalade Exile, Southern Cross University Press, 2006.
  • Griefbox, Salt, Cambridge, 2001.
  • Playing With Ideas: Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties (with Carolyn Pickett), Currency Press, Sydney, 1999 [theatre history].

Book Chapters:

  • 'How to Kill a Labrador: Ethics and Life Writing', John Schad (ed), Critic, Sussex University Press, forthcoming 2010.
  • 'David Williamson and the long grass of talent: an interview', in Making Waves: 10 years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival, (with Marele Day and Fay Knight), University of Queensland Press, 2006.
  • 'Inez Bensusan, Suffrage Theatre's Nice Colonial Girl', in Elizabeth Schafer & Susan Bradley Smith (eds) Playing Australia: Australian Theatre on the World Stage, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, 2003.
  • 'Rhetoric, Reconciliation and other National Pastimes: Showcasing Contemporary Australian Theatre in London', in Elizabeth Schafer & Susan Bradley Smith (eds) Playing Australia: Australian Theatre on the World Stage, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, 2003.
  • 'Communist Women Playwrights and the Sydney New Theatre' in Xavier Pons (ed), Departures, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001.
  • 'History and Mystery and Suffragettes on the Australian Stage: a Consideration of Women's Suffrage as Presented in Australian Theatre', in Marc Maufort (ed.), Siting the Other: Marginal Identities in Australian and Canadian Drama, Peter Lang, Bern, Brussels and New York, 2001.
  • 'An Antipodean Boldness: Australian Literature and the International Curricula' in Gerhard Leitner and Bruce Bennett, eds. Australian Studies: A Topic For Tertiary Education? , Berliner Debatte Wissenschaftsverlag, 2000.