Associate Professor Tanya Dalziell

Associate Professor

Equity and Diversity Advisor

Research Interests:

• Australian literature

• Creative writing

• Cultural studies--film

• Feminist theory

• Literary theory

• Post-colonial literature/theory

• Twentieth-century literature

Teaching:

I teach in a wide range of undergraduate, Honours and postgraduate areas including Postcolonial Literatures, Gender theory, Modernism, Contemporary Literatures, Literary and Cultural Theory, and Cinema Studies.

Key Research and Expertise:

Current Research:

I am currently involved in two major projects.
On Critical Mourning: Politics, Poetics and Practice: The primary aim of this project is to rethink current understandings of mourning. In direct response to the two dominant modes now available for conceiving of mourning - the 'psychic health' model proposed by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida's defence of 'the refusal to mourn' - this project determines to disrupt these commanding paradigms. It argues that these theories are not adequately attuned to the complexities and possibilities of contemporary mourning, and it seeks to redress this situation by producing new frameworks, introducing new terms and instituting new strategies by which to approach the ethical, affective, representational and political significance of loss.
Modernism and Music spans popular cultures, 'high' modernism and the Harlem Renaissance to consider the politics and aesthetic of music, an ostensibly alogogenic form, in relation to written texts produced during the first decades of the twentieth century. Of special interest is the shaping influence on these cultural productions of gender and primitivism.

Honours and Awards:

Research
2005 Walter McRae Russell Award, for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject 2004-2005, Settler Romances and the Australian Girl
Teaching
2005 Nomination by UWA, Australian Awards for University Teaching (Early Career Teacher Category) (outcome pending)
2003 Finalist, Australian University Teaching Awards (Humanities Division-Open Category)
2002 Recipient, University of Western Australia Teaching Excellence Award (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: First-Year-Level Teaching)
Creative Works
1997 Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award

Publications:

Monographs:
Settler Romances and the Australian Girl. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2004, 178 pages ISBN 1 920694 20X
Recent review: http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=192069420X&issue=31

Book chapters and refereed articles:
"Recent Australia Women’s Writing from 1970-2004." Companion to Australian Literature. Eds. Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer. New York: Boydell and Brewer/University of Rochester Press, 2007. (in press)
"Why then Mourn?: Virginia Woolf's Mournful Music." Virginia Woolf and Music. Ed. Adriana Varga, Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2006. (in press)
"The Sound of an Idea: Music in the Modernist Writings of Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein." Music and Literary Modernism. Ed. Robert P. McParland. U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. (in press)
"Thematising the Global: Recent Australian Film," with Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, 24.2 (2005): 112-124.
"Mourning and jazz in the poetry of Mina Loy." Modernism and Mourning. Ed. Patricia Rae. New Jersey: Bucknell University Press, 2005. (in press)
"Belated arrivals: gender, colonialism and modernism in Australia." Modernism: a Volume in the ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Comparative Literary History Series. Eds. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press, 2005. (in press)
"Literary biography of Beth Yahp," Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Series. Eds. Luisa Webb and Selina Samuels. Michigan: Gale Publishing, 2005. (in press)
"An Ethics of Mourning: Gail Jones's Black Mirror," Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 2 (2005). (in press)
"Colonial Displacements: Another Look at Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (2005). (in press)
"As unconscious and gay as a trout in a stream? Turning the trope of the Australian Girl," Feminist Review 73 (2003): 17-34.
"Partnerships in Outcomes Based Education," with Susan Gourvenec, Refereed Proceedings of Partners in Teaching and Learning 12th Annual Forum 11-12 February 2003, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
http://www.ecu.edu.au/conferences/tlf/2003/pub/
""We should try, while there is yet still time, to gather all the information possible of a race fast dying out": Unsettling Sympathetic Women," Australian Feminist Studies 39 (2002): 325-342.
""You been coverem up me gotem big swag. Government been coverem up me": the haunting of settler economies," Postcolonial Studies 5.1 (2002): 63-77.
"Translating the Feminine? Storytelling Strategies in the Texts of Drusilla Modjeska." Translating Cultures. Eds. Isabel Carrera Suarez, Aurora Garcia Fernandez and M.S. Suarez Lafuente. Oviedo and Hebden Bridge: KRK Ediciones and Dangaroo Press, 1999, 127-133.
"Beyond the Verandah: Elizabeth Jolley's The Orchard Thieves and Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard," Antipodes: the Publication of the American Association for the Studies of Australian Literary Studies 11.1 (1997): 37-40.
""Make Bombs Not Cakes": The Australian Women’s Weekly Souvenir Tribute to the War Effort," Westerly 40.4 (1995): 13-19.
Creative works:
"Elizabeth," Acupuncture for Turtles: An Anthology of Award-Winning Stories. Perth: Black Swan Press, 2005.
"June and Heather," Shorts 2: more from ABC Radio National Short Story CD Collection. Australian Broadcasting Corporation Audio, 2001.
"June and Heather," Production broadcast by Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Classic FM and Radio National, 2000-2001.
"Elizabeth," Westerly Special Issue: Young Writers Issue 43.4 (1998): 34-38.
"June and Heather," Picador New Writing 4. Eds. Beth Yahp and Nicholas Jose. Sydney: Picador, 1997, 209-213.