- Poetry Analysis and Criticism
- Australian History and Society
- Contemporary Literature and Criticism
- Irish and British Studies
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Visual Culture and Art Theory
- French Literature and Poetry
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Japanese History and Culture
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Medieval Literature and History
- Media Studies and Communication
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Travel Writing and Literature
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
Deakin University
2016-2025
University of Canberra
2020-2023
Sophia University
2017-2021
The University of Melbourne
2002-2005
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
1996
The White House
1996
The Australian Gothic is rooted in loss, alienation and angst, concerned with boundaries, transgression the horror of “unseen, or half-seen – repressed matter that threatens to return” (Doolan, 2019). As a genre which turns on “the perceived hostility natural environment, violence colonisation … fears racial Other” 2019), it also embedded complex ideas about uncanny, haunting borderlines margins; liminal spaces conceptions belonging, dispossession, body interact uneasy ways; abjection. While...
This article examines the positive impact of overseas study tours on teaching philosophies and classroom strategies used by professors running tours. While education scholars have identified long term benefits for students, less attention has been paid to flow teachers. aims address this gap in literature having five Australian describe how their international tour experiences changed improved classroom. The shows that process developing a successful tour, can learn lessons about they use...
The concept of the public intellectual has always been a somewhat contested term. This article serves as both an introduction to debates around what it constitutes and entry point into how new media environment is producing different configuration intellectual. Through key thinkers who have addressed idea internationally those focused on Australian context, this essay positions arguments made by authors in special issue. Via short case-study TED, conference online idea-spreading phenomenon,...
This paper explores how the central female characters of television series Killing Eve gain power by accessing and enacting forms violent "otherness". By rejecting traditional conceptions femininity, including passivity, maternal nurturing or caregiving, empathy, Villanelle, Eve, Carolyn weaponise cultural narratives used to relegate women margins. Their subversions are frequently located in bodily terms, relating appetite, fashion, sex, behavioural quirks, but also intellectual...
Since the 19th century, when a number of French writers – most conspicuously Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud introduced what we may think as modern prose poem into European literature, poetry has been part debate about contemporary usefulness existing literary modes genres. While early practitioners partly used form to problematise traditional poetic prosody, once this aim was achieved remained significant form. In context developments in poetry, article discusses John Frow's...
As digital photography proliferates in the contemporary world, theorists and creative writers continue to debate what photographs signify how poetic ekphrasis of should be understood. This has become a pressing issue an age when new technologies allow easy manipulation images – which, depending on context which they are viewed, increasingly being characterised as creative, imaginative, unreliable or deceptive. Yet nineteenth- early mid-twentieth-century tended assume that had direct, if...
Abstract: Dark Tourism is a term associated with pilgrimages to places the famous dead. "Dark Poetry" attempts imagine, explore, or reanimate dark event. Using Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust poetry and Mariko Nagai's collection, Irradiated Cities (2017) as examples, we discuss poetry's use of an anti-elegiac mode, which focuses on historical particularities in refashioning problematizing events while employing numerous gaps fragmentations. This poetry, often written by second-generation...
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(2002). ‘Fuck all editors’: The Ern Malley affair and Gwen Harwood's bulletin scandal. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 72, pp. 149-157.
This article explores the experience of women poets in academe and posits that by institutionalising themselves universities, gain financial stability working wider field poetry. However, they also face discrimination a lack opportunity these workplaces. The uses two case studies Maria Takolander Jill Jones, who work at Deakin University Adelaide, Australia, respectively. These show way which explore their
The public intellectual, by their very definition, aims to reach a large sector of the or publics. This requires proficiency, at least capacity communicate in variety forms. As proportion public, which intellectual appeals, is an online cyber importance blogs computer-literate cannot be under-estimated. immediacy blog and way presence facilitates immediate communication between through posting comments allow for broad recognition arena. My arguments will hinge on my interviews with...