Staff profile

Dr Susan Kaye Martin

Associate Dean (Research), Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 520, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Hons, PhD (Monash).

Membership of professional Associations

ASAL (Victorian Representative), MLA, InASA, AGHA, CFA.

Area of study

Creative Arts
English

Brief Profile

Sue Martin teaches Australian and Victorian literature and culture and is a specialist in nineteenth-century Australian fiction. She has worked on women’s writing; gender studies and theory; spatial theory; garden history/culture; nineteenth century Victorian North American and English fiction.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Nineteenth- and Twentieth century Australian literature

- Victorian literature

Literary Theory

- Feminist theory and Cultural Studies

Teaching Units

  • ENG2/3ITB - Inventing the bush.
  • ENG2/3TAL - Twentieth and twenty-first century Australian literature: Inventing the past.
  • ENG4/5VFI - Victorian fiction.

Recent Publications

Books:

  • Reading the Garden: the Culture of Gardening in Australia co-authored scholarly book with Katie Holmes and Kylie Mirmohamadi, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008.
  • Green Pens: an Anthology of Australian Garden Writing ed., with Katie Holmes and Kylie Mirmohamadi, Carlton: Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press, 2004.
  • Women and Empire (Australia) edited documents with scholarly introduction and apparatus. Contracted to Routledge, 2008.

Chapters:

  • ‘Landscape and Australian Fiction’ in Modern Australian Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide, ed, David Carter and Wang Guanglin, Shanghai: China Ocean University Press (series Literary Theory and Criticism in English) 2010: 41-49.
  • ‘Dissection, Anatomy Acts and the Appropriation of bodies in nineteenth-century Australia: “The Government’s Brains and the Benevolent Asylum’. The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Materials'. History of Medical Science series. Ed, Helen Macdonald and Sarah Ferber.  London: Ashgate, 2011. In press.
  • ‘”Flashed from wire to wire, through the continents of the old and new world”: trafficking in imperial information between Britain and Australia at the end of the Victorian era’. Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance. Ed, Susan Thomas. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. isbn: 9781847184559: 70-83.
  • ‘”Surmounted by Stuffed Sheep”: Exhibitions and Empire in Nineteenth-century Australian Women’s Fiction.’ Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World. Ed, Darian-Smith, Kate; Gillespie, Richard; Jordan, Caroline; and Willis, Elizabeth. Melbourne: Monash University ePress, 2008. pp. 12.1–12.11.  DOI: 10.2104/sd080012. [volume won the 2008 Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists]. 
  • 'Remembering the Self in the Colonial Garden: Gardens and Subjectivity', Memory, Monuments and Museums, ed Marilyn Lake. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2006: 182-193.
  • 'Dead White Male Hero: True History of the Kelly Gang and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions', Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, ed. Andreas Gaile. Cross/Cultures 78. Amsterdam: Rodopi, October 2005: 301-17.
  • 'Dead White Male heroes: Ned Kelly and Ludwig Leichhardt in Australian Fictions' in Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New World ed. Judith Ryan & Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (Harvard Committee on Australian Studies), 2004, chapter 2: 23-52.
  • 'Captivating Reading: or, Nineteenth-century Australian Captivity Fiction as Tourist Guide to a non-Aboriginal Tasmania' in Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration ed. Graeme Harper London: Cassell New York, St Martins, 2001: 38-52.[ISBN 0 8264 4865 8].
  • 'Why do all these women have moustaches…' in Authority and Influence Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 ed, Delys Bird, Robert Dixon & Christopher Lee. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001.
  • 'Captivating Fictions: Younäh!: A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge.' in Bodytrade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, ed Jeanette Hoorn & Barbara Creed. New York, Melbourne, Dunedin: Routledge, Pluto Press, University of Otago Press, 2001: 151-166. [isbn 0 415 93842 2, 186403 184 0, 1877276 12 X].
  • 'Louisa Anne Meredith', 8000 word commissioned biographical entry Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 230 Australian Literature 1788-1914 First Series (ed. Selina Samuels). Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, Woodbridge Conn, USA: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2000 [ISBN 0 7876 4647 4]: 262-268.
  • 'The Gender of Gardens: the Space of the Garden in Nineteenth-century Australia' in: Ruth Barcan & Ian Buchanan. Eds. Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry. Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, UWA/UWA Press. 1999: 115-125 [isbn:1 876268 37 9].

Research projects

ARC-funded ‘Cities of Words: Women’s Cultures of Reading and Writing in Melbourne and Beyond’ with Senior Research Associate Dr Kylie Mirmohamadi