I joined the University of Wollongong in July 2007. Previously I taught at James Cook University, Australia (2005-07), at the University of Exeter, in the UK (2000-05) and on short term contracts at the University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University (1998-2000). I received my PhD in 1997, from the University of Western Australia and a BA Honours (English, First Class; French Major) from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Currently I am Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Chair of the Faculty Education Committee, a member of UOW Senate, of the Senate Standing Committee and of the UOW Education Committee. Other governance roles have included Interim Head, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages (UOW, January–July 2009); Deputy Head, School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University (January-May 2007); and Director, Master of English, University of Exeter (2001-2004). I co-edit the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and La Questione Meridionale/The Southern Question.
Articles
Introduction: Currents, Cross-Currents, Undercurrents (with Frances Devlin-Glass), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
The similarities in an issue such as this one are often purely serendipitous; JASAL 10...
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature - Australian Literature in a Global World (with Wenche Ommundsen), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
Special issue: Australian Literature in a Global World - Introduction (with Wenche Ommundsen), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
"On your knees, white man": African (un)belongings in Rian Malan's 'My traitor's heart', ERA - Humanities & Creative Arts 2009 (restricted) (2007)
It would be unfair to see the figure of John Paul II on his knees...
Myths, Traditions and Mothers of the Nation: Some thoughts on Efua Sutherland’s Writing, Entertext (2005)
Focusing in some detail on three of her plays, this paper addresses the work of...
Contributions to Books
Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, Race and History, in E. Bainbridge (ed.), Connecting Cultures (2008)
This paper will focus on two childhood memoirs published after the end of minority regimes...
Redeeming self: the business of whiteness in post-apartheid South African writing, in M. Casey, A. Moreton-Robinson & F. Nicoll (Eds.), Transnational Whiteness Matters (2008)
Genuflecting before the last British governor on the soil of her beloved Kenyan farm in...