Dr Kieran Dolin

Chair English and Cultural Studies

Research Interests:

• Australian literature

• Literature and law

• Twentieth-century literature

• Victorian literature

Publications:

A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, March 2007.

"Law, Literature and Symbolic Revolution: Bleak House," Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 12. 1 (2007), 10-18 http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/AJVS/article/viewFile/724/830

"Continuing Negotiations: Law and Literature in Short Stories by Louis Auchincloss," Law and Literature 15 (2003), 189-207

"Law and Literature - Walking the Boundary with Robert Frost and the US Supreme Court," UWA Law Review 31 (2003), 202-18

Entries on "Law and Literature", "John Mortimer", and "Jeremy Bentham" in Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (New York: Continuum, 2003).

"The Transfigurations of Caroline Norton," Victorian Literature and Culture 30/2 (2002), 503-27
- Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol 205, ed. Kathy Darrow (forthcoming, Gale, 2009)

"Narrating the Notable Trial: The Case of Dr John Bodkin Adams," REAL: Research in English and American Literature (2002), 145-65

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature Cambridge University Press (1999)

"A Woman's Pleading: Caroline Norton's Pamphlets on Laws for Women in Nineteenth-Century England" Australian Feminist Law Journal 10 (1998) 51-60

"Farrago for Australia: Law, Power and Textuality in Three Novels by Nicholas Hasluck", Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33 (1998) 113-24.

"Freedom, Uncertainty and Diversity: the Critique of Imperialist Law in A Passage to India," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 36 (1994), 328-352.