Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Staff Directory

Teaching Responsibilities

• Philosophy and Religious Studies
• Literature, Film and Art

Biography

Maurice Nestor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts. He lectures widely within the Literature, Film and Art and the Philosophy and Religious Studies disciplines, particularly in the fields of Literature and the History of Art. His subjects include: Modern Myth in Literature and Film, American Literature, Romantic Literature, Modern Literature, Illness in Literature, Happiness in Nature, Renaissance Art, Baroque Art, and Theology to Philosophy. He has a B.A. and an M.A. Qualifying, from the University of Melbourne.

For ten years he wrote regularly for the Education section of the Melbourne Sun newspaper, contributing numerous short articles on writers as diverse as the moderns, Chekhov, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Doris Lessing, the Australians Henry Lawson and Henry Handel Richardson, and classic writers such as Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare. He has written several articles on the poetry of Robert Browning, William Blake and S.T. Coleridge, and articles on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and on Lampedusa’s The Leopard, mostly for the annual Viewpoints and Perspectives series of volumes. His stories and sketches have been published in Quadrant magazine, in Australian Short Stories and in the Melbourne Age newspaper. He has also written on ‘The Divergent Mythologies of Australian and English Cricket’ in Quadrant. His most recent publication is on St Augustine’s renunciation of classical literature, published in Iris, the journal of the Victorian Classical Society.

He was for a time a junior lecturer in the English Department at Melbourne University, and has also lectured as an exchange professor at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, and at the University of Montana, in the U.S.A., and at Kingsley College, a private Wesleyan university in Melbourne.

His preferred fields of research supervision are Chaucer and Shakespeare, the writers of the Romantic Movement, Dickens and other 19th century novelists, the classic American writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, Willa Cather and Faulkner, and modernists such as D.H. Lawrence, Eliot and Yeats.