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Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century British Women's Writing with major work on George Eliot and Anna Jameson
Nineteenth-Century Australian Women's Writing focussing on Louisa Anne Meredith
Nineteenth-Century Travel and Translation
Victorian Studies
Victorian Periodical Press
Teaching:
At first-year level I teach and co-ordinate 'Ideas of Modernity' with my colleague Associate Professor Daniel Brown. Modernity begins in the eighteenth century and while Enlightenment thinkers celebrated reason's liberating power, Gothic novels produced irrational visions. We explore anxieties about gender, sexuality, and social power in texts of the time.
At upper level I teach and co-ordinate, with my colleague Dr Kieran Dolin, 'Victorian Ideologies'. The Victorian age was one of passionate debate and radical change. Ideologies of gender, culture and imperialism provide the subjects, and the subtexts, for some of the period's most lively texts as diverse as Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. We also teach 'Romanticism and Revolution', which explores the way in which English romantic aesthetics influenced modern experience and ideas, in the poetry and essays of the time as well as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
At Honours level I teach Advanced Research Skills, Early Detective Fiction and Victorian Travel Narrative.
Current Research:
My current research is on travel and translation, exploring the cultural interchanges that have constructed English, Continental and Colonial identities during the age of European imperialism 1830-1914.
Other Expertise:
Graduate Supervisions: PhD and Masters
I have supervised successful PhD and Masters studies on a range of topics including nineteenth-century travel writing; Victorian periodicals of the 1830s; antipodean imaginary voyages; women's didactic novels, 1800-1820; Jane Austen; Anna Jameson; and Australian journalism
Memberships:
Executive Member, Australasian Victorian Studies Association which publishes the Australiasian Victorian Studies Journal;
Member, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Member, Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Member, Advisory Board, Victorian Review
Member, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
Publications:
George Eliot and the Discourses of Medievalism. Turnout, Belgium:Brepols and Sydney Studies in Medievalism, 2006
Australia Imagined. Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900. Edited with Monica Anderson. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2005.
Gender and the Victorian Periodical. With Hilary Fraser and Stephanie Green. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
The Journals of George Eliot. Ed. Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Anna Jameson: Victorian, feminist, woman of letters. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.
Chapters in Books
"The Professionalization of Women's Writing: extending the Canon". With Hilary Fraser. Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900. Ed. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
"The 'Very Poetry of Frogs': Louisa Anne Meredith in Australia", Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, ed. Barbara T. Gates and Ann Shteir. Science and Literature Series, General Ed. George Levine. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
I have published articles in Women's Writing, Studies in Medievalism, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Biography, Journal of Victorian Culture and Victorian Periodicals Review among others.
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