Cassandra Atherton

ORCID: 0000-0001-6866-8566
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Research Areas
  • 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...

10.52086/001c.129408 article EN TEXT 2025-02-04

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...

10.36366/frontiers.v31i1.448 article EN Frontiers The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 2019-04-30

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,...

10.1177/1329878x1515600109 article EN Media International Australia 2015-08-01

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...

10.1080/14680777.2021.1996423 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Feminist Media Studies 2021-11-11

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...

10.1080/14790726.2015.1047856 article EN New Writing 2015-07-14

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...

10.1080/14790726.2024.2315122 article EN cc-by New Writing 2024-02-23

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...

10.1353/lit.2024.a924344 article EN College literature 2024-03-01

Keywords RIVERS, ESTUARIES, TIDES, WEIRS, NATURAL, SURVEYS, HYDROGRAPHY, WATER, LEVELS, WORKS, IMPROVEMENT, NAVIGATION, DREDGING, DREDGERS, CHANNELS, FLOW, TIDAL, SCOUR SEVERN, CLYDE, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UK... Show All

10.1680/imotp.1846.24318 article EN Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 1846-01-01

(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.

10.1080/14443050209387747 article EN Journal of Australian Studies 2002-01-01

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

10.1080/09589236.2014.922467 article EN Journal of Gender Studies 2014-06-25

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...

10.1177/1329878x1515600112 article EN Media International Australia 2015-08-01
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