Staff profile

Dr Sue Gillett

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Arts:2.17, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BA Hons (LaT), Dip Ed (Melb), PhD (LaT)

Area of study

Creative Writing
Strategic communication

Brief profile

Sue Gillett is a senior lecturer in Strategic Communication. Her qualifications include a BA Honours, Diploma of Education and PhD. She has authored two books and has had more than 30 articles and book chapters published in Australia and internationally. Sue has received 3 university awards in recognition of her teaching contributions, including the Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010.She is editor-in-chief of Melbourne Poets Union and was the founding editor of Beyond the Divide: An interdisciplinary Arts journal. Sue is experienced in the artistic direction, management and marketing of cultural events. She is a professional public speaker and regularly contributes media interviews and appearances in relation to education and the arts. Sue is currently a program co-ordinator and committee member for the Bendigo Writers Festival.

Research interests

Gender, Culture, Sexuality

- Feminist film theory and media analysis

- Postcolonial theory and representations

Literary Studies

- Creative non-fiction, contemporary poetry and song

Screen and Media Culture

- Contemporary Australian cinema

- Contemporary women film makers

Teaching units

MST1CCO - Constructing Communication STC1WSC - Writing for Strategic Communication (Bendigo) JRN2PAS – Press and Society (Bendigo) MST3INT – Professional Internship (Bendigo) JRN3AAP – Strategic Communication Agency (Bendigo)  

Recent publications

Books

  • Cassandra in Red, Mark Time Books, Victoria, 2012 (a book of poems)
  • Land Lines: An Anthology of Regional Poets, Melbourne Poets Union, 2010 (editor)
  • Views from beyond the Mirror: The films of Jane Campion, ATOM, St. Kilda, 2004.

 Refereed Articles and book chapters

  • From Black Sun to ‘this taste of shadow’: Mourning and the Trace of the Real in Pablo Neruda’s Spain in Our Hearts, inJ ohn Hawkes, Rose Lucas and Ann Vickery (eds), Poetry and the Trace, Puncher & Wattmann (in press).
  • '"I Know that Face": The Black Arm Band and Cultural Memory' in Cultural Studies Review (forthcoming).
  • 'COMMUNITY SINGING AND SOCIAL WORK: A NEW PARTNERSHIP' in UNESCO Observatory, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne Refereed E-Journal, Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts, Vol 2, Issue 1, October 2010: 'Perspectives on Singing.’ (co-authored with Carol Dore and Jan Pascal)
  • ‘Prazer em assister: o cinema de Jane Campion’ in Miriam Adelman et al, Mulheres, Homens, Olhares e Cenas, Editora UFPR, Brazil, 2011 (first published as 'A pleasure to watch: Jane Campion's narrative cinema', in Screening the Past).
  • ‘Through Song to Belonging: Music finds its place in Rachel Perkins Radiance and One Night the Moon’, in Metro, no. 159, 2008.
  • “The piano is mine. It’s mine!”: My (free association with) Jane Campion, or, the Child in the Spectator.’ Commissioned for Jane Campion: Nation, Cinema, Identity Colloquium, Wayne State University Press, 2008.
  • “We don’t want to watch this”: the boy-child’s gaze in Jane Campion’s Sweetie,’ Metro, no. 151, December 2006.
  • 'Engaging Medusa: Competing myths and fairy-tales in In the Cut', Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema, April-June, issue 31, 2004.
  • 'A pleasure to watch: Jane Campion's narrative cinema', Screening the Past,  March 2001.
  • 'Never a native: deconstructing home and heart in Holy Smoke!', Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema, April, issue 5, 2000.
  • ‘Just Women: Marlene Gorris's Antonia's Line,’ Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema. 2001.
  • 'Angel from the mirror city: Jane Campion's Janet Frame', Senses of Cinema, November, issue 10, 2000.
  • ‘More Than Meets The Eye: The Mediation of Affects in Jane Campion's Sweetie,’ Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema. 1999.

Conference Presentations

  • Historical Justice and Memory Conference, Melbourne 2012. 'I know that face: Murundak and The Black Arm Band'
  • Creativity and Madness Conference – Psychological Studies of Art and Artists (AIMED), Spain 2008. ‘Poetry’s will to sanity against the madness of war: Pablo Neruda’s ‘Spain in our
  • Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference, 2006. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, July. ‘Halo: a personal testimony’
  • History and Film Conference, 2006. (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, November), ‘Songlines: Lyrical reconciliation in Rachel Perkins’ films’.
  • Jane Campion: Nation, Cinema, Identity Colloquium, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2006. Invited discussant.
  • Musicology Society of Australia Conference, Sydney Conservatorium, 2005. ‘“Flight: Concert for Refugees”: Multi-vocal engagement with the plight of refugees.’
  • Association of Australian Writers Conference, Curtin University, Perth, 2005. “I tell, therefore you are”: The Handmaid’s Alchemy (in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale)
  • Open to View: Perspectives on Childhood in Images and Illustrations (Liverpool, November 2005), ‘Witness the child: children’s perspectives in Jane Campion’s Sweetie and The Piano’.
  • Australian Centre for the Moving Image Lounge Critic 2005 Launch: ‘Desperate Housewives: Ladies Who Lunch’
  • CACLALS (Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Study), Winnepeg, June 2004. ‘Rewriting “Great” War Stories: Sex and Violence in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, Anne-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees and Elizabeth Jolley’s My Father’s Moon’.
  • Australian Teachers Of Media Conference, Melbourne, July 2004. ‘Through the eyes of a child: Jane Campion’s child characters.’