English, Creative Writing and Film

The department features significant research strengths in the following areas:

• Literary fiction, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing (including poetry)
• Writing from the South
• Australian and Pacific Literary Studies
• African and South African literary and cultural studies
• US Literary Studies
• Literary Theory
• Material Cultures, Print Cultures, Cultural Studies

We also house expertise in the following research areas:

• Renaissance Literary and Cultural Studies
• Late-Victorian Literary Cultures
• Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies
• Modernisms
• Contemporary Film Studies, especially Asian and French Film
• Genre and Affect
• Creative Infrastructures, Economics, Labour, AI
• Performing Arts and Creative Industries

Tamlyn Avery

My research is situated in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and modernist studies, and American and African American literary history. My first book, The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960 (Edinburgh UP 2023), examined how regional politics and aesthetics informed the development of a key genre of the novel in the United States, during an era that is typically associated with both modernism and surging nationalism. I have also published widely on topics relating to gender, race, and literary representations of white-collar textual labour during the rise of managerial capitalism (c. 1890–1950); as well as the relationship between classical music and modernist literary innovation. I am editor of the forthcoming edited volume, The Women of 1922: Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism (Palgrave), which investigates the contributions of women's writing to modernism's “miracle year,” 1922. My research appears in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, American Literature, the Oxford Handbook of African American Women’s Writing (forthcoming), The African American Review (forthcoming) and elsewhere. I am preparing a new book entitled "Writing the Collar-Line" about the racial politics of white-collar bureaucratisation and the typewriter revolution and its impact on African American literary history.

Patrick Flanery

My four published novels (Absolution, Fallen Land, I Am No One and Night for Day) are united by concerns with selfhood, surveillance, migration and form, while my creative-critical memoir (The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption) explores questions of belonging, queer identity and parenthood, engaging with the work of Sianne Ngai, Eve Sedgwick, Melanie Klein and Lee Edelman, among others; John D’Agata called The Ginger Child ‘[a] rare, brilliant and essential exploration of adoption in queer families, and one of the most significant additions to the canon of queer literature in years’. My current practice-based research projects engage with time, language and visual art. Recent and current scholarly research spans work on American and French film, lyric forms, queer poetics, visual art and art history, publishing history and film.

Matthew Hooton

Dr Matthew Hooton is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Honours Coordinator in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, and an early career researcher at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. He is the author of the novels Deloume Road (Knopf/Jonathan Cape) and Typhoon Kingdom (UWAP). His research interests include The Novel, The Short Story, Creative Writing Workshop Pedagogy, Comics/Graphic Novels and Video Game Narrative Design.

Brydie Kosmina

My research spans the fields of literary, cultural and memory studies, with a sustained emphasis on how feminist practice, politics and history inform and shape these domains. My recent monograph, Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) intervenes in the discipline of literary and activist memory studies, offering a new methodological approach to reading literary and cultural memory. I also theorise and investigate how literary, cinematic and popular culture texts engage with, position and inscribe the Anthropocene and Anthropocentric thought as prevailing affective positions. My research has been published in the Journal of Popular Culture and Continuum, and will appear in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Witch (2025/26).

Bronwyn Law Viljoen

My writing, both fiction and non-fiction, is often concerned with the intersection between visual art and literature, and draws on my years of experience as an art publisher, editor and critic. In particular, I have written on South African art and photography for many international publications. My first novel, The Printmaker, about a reclusive artist, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award, won the 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize, and has been translated into French and German. My second novel, Notes on Falling (2022) is set in contemporary Johannesburg, the Eastern Cape, and New York of the 1970s, and explores the relationship between lived experience, political and social context, and the impulse to create art. My stories and essays have appeared in journals, books and magazines, including Aperture, Printmaking Today and New Contrast. My research interests include printmaking, photography, contemporary literature, artists’ books, visual and literary archives, poetry, and the relationship between image and text.

Benjamin Madden

My research braids together early twentieth-century studies, modernist poetics, and everyday life theory. My current book project draws on these traditions to investigate the doubled crisis of aesthetic and ethical normativity that issues in the movement we call “Modernism.” I am also working on a project with colleagues at the University of Adelaide which proposes to survey the material networks underlying the production and distribution of modernist texts in Australia circa 1910–1950. This project aims to offer new insights into Australian little magazines and small presses, and to issue in an authoritative scholarly reference for the field.

Lisa Mansfield

I am an art historian of Renaissance art and material culture, focusing on northern Europe. My research explores the impact of cross-cultural encounters and exchange on creativity and innovation in the visual arts, portraiture and courtly image-making practices, representations of gender and the body, images of warfare and violence, and intersections between art, technology and science. 

Thomas Moran

I am an early career researcher working across film, literature and cultural studies. My PHD was on the idea of the death of cinema and the way in which digital culture has transformed how we make and theorise cinematic art. I am interested in the relationship between form, technology and aesthetics. I have also written on modernist poetry, global cinema and Australian literature.

Julian Murphet

I am a Marxist scholar looking for ways to understand cultural and literary forms as crystals of social knowledge. I believe passionately in the capacity of the language arts to transform the world by altering our perspectives on it. I have written on American literature, on modernism and postmodernism, on film, on ‘race’, and on various matters of cultural-theoretical interest. I am always looking to supervise new graduate research projects that energetically seek to contest prevailing views.

Anne Pender

Anne’s research interests range across modern and contemporary Australian literature, theatre and performance. Anne has a special interest in comedy in performance. In addition, her research extends to biography, creativity and aesthetic education. Anne is also broadly interested in Australian history and contemporary society.

Georgia Phillips

Georgia is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and literary criticism. Her literary historical novel, The Bearcat, is forthcoming from Picador in 2024. She is currently working on her second novel and a book-length collection of poems. Her research is focused on exploring emergent and experimental/literary narrative modes, literary aesthetics, and the legacy of literary modernism on contemporary writing. She has a keen research interest in the phenomenological process of literary composition, psychoanalysis, contemporary feminism and life writing, LGBTQIA+ literature, narrative depictions and treatment of time and temporality, the philosophy of history and pastness, contemporary poetry and poetics, the poetics of space and ecocriticism/eco-feminism. She is also interested in the philosophy of veganism and literature's role in challenging speciesism.

Lucy Potter

My main research interest is Early Modern English drama, in particular the plays of Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare. I am particularly interested in the ways in which plays of this period interact with and develop classical ideas about tragedy, notably Aristotle's concept of catharsis, engage with Virgil's Aeneid and the Virgilian intertext, and dramatise ekphrasis. Also of interest is Marlowe’s influence on Shakespeare’s dramatic practice. My research has resulted in the following: the Shakespeare Matters MOOC, the first MOOC on Shakespeare by an Australian academic and a finalist in 2018 EdX Prize for Exceptional Contributions to Online Teaching and Learning; two Calvin and Rose G Hoffman Prizes for a Distinguished Scholarly Essay on Christopher Marlowe (2017 and 2022), the first Australian academic to have achieved this milestone. My latest publication is Shakespeare for Everyone: The Emotional Worlds of Shakespeare’s Works (Routledge, 2025), details of which can be viewed at www.routledge.com/9780367407421.

Rosslyn Prosser

Ros’s research interests are in the areas of creative writing and experimental and hybrid forms, gender and sexuality studies. Ros’s publications and curatorial activities respond to questions of representations of drag performance and the queering of memory.

Peter C. Pugsley

My research focuses on Asian cinemas and global film and media cultures. I am interested in film as a form of representation whether it be through national identity, aesthetics, celebrity, ethnicity or gender and sexuality. I have a strong interest in screenwriting and literary fiction. My most recent books have centred on Japanese cinema: The Cinematic Influence: Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan [co-authored with Ben McCann] (2023) and Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline (2022), while my earlier monographs looked more broadly at the cinemas of Asia – Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema: Cinematic Boundaries (2015) and Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema (2013).

Meg Samuelson

My current research engages with literatures of the South and in the oceanic and/or hydro humanities, with a focus on ‘coastal form’ or ‘coastal thought’. I am particularly interested in relating African, Australian, Indian Ocean and other southern situations to planetary positions and in ‘thinking the Anthropocene South’. More broadly, I engage with debates on world literature and on literary-critical practice, and with feminist and post- or decolonial interventions.

Magie Tonkin

My research is informed by feminism, and spans contemporary women’s writing, cultural representations of madness and psychiatry, dance studies and cultural policy. I have published widely on British writer Angela Carter and am currently preparing a monograph on the cultural legacy of existential psychiatrist R.D. Laing. I've recently become interested in how ordinary language philosophy can be drawn on productively as an approach to the literary text.. Drawing on my dance background, I have written for the dance industry press for the past twenty years, as well as authoring a history of Australia’s oldest contemporary dance company, Australian Dance Theatre. I am the lead Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage grant researching innovative ways that dance archives, understood as repertoire, cultural text and material repository, can be made generative for the future.

Andrew van der Vlies

My research is informed by a range of methodologies and theoretical orientations, from Book History and print culture scholarship to postcolonial studies, queer theory, affect studies and translation studies. My abiding scholarly interests – substantially informed by my early experiences of the particular political and cultural conditions of apartheid-era South Africa, and subsequently by my experience as a queer scholar living and teaching in the United Kingdom – have been with the material conditions of writing under colonial and postcolonial conditions (especially transnationally), the institutions of the literary, the mobility of cultural forms, the tensions between politics and aesthetics, and the construction of the idea of the nation and the national ‘family’ (including challenges to such formations and their imbrication with questions of race and sexuality). I have published widely on colonial and postcolonial literatures, fine art, photography, gender and affect, in journals, edited collections and monographs. I am the author of South African Textual Cultures (2007), Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (2017), and a reader’s guide to J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (2010), and have been editor or co-editor of volumes including The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (2023), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (2023), South African Writing in Transition (2019), Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays by Zoë Wicomb (2018), and Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa (2012).

Georgia Phillips

• UNSW Essential Research Costs Travel Grant Recipient, $2,143.77, UNSW, 2022
• Higher Degree Research Equity Top-up Scholarship Recipient UNSW, $5,000, 2021
• Higher Degree Research Equity Top-up Scholarship Recipient UNSW, $3,750, 2020
• PRSS International Conference Grant UNSW, $2,800, 2020
• Higher Degree Research Equity Scholarship Recipient UNSW, $2,500, 2019
• Full RTP Scholarship 2019-2022, $105, 000

Julian Murphet

• ARC Discovery Grant (with Professor Helen Groth and Dr Jumana Bayeh) DP190100501 Rioting and the Literary Archive, 2020-2023. $196,000.

Anne Pender

• ARC Linkage Grant
  Anne is a Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage grant entitled Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change ; LP220100196
  $838,586
  2023-2026
• Anne held a National Library of Australia Fellowship in 2021-2022.
  Project Title: ‘The Colour of Fire: Australia and China in the Theatre 1980-2020’

Mandy Treagus

• ARC SRI ‘Between Indian and Pacific Oceans: Reframing Australian Literature.’ 2020.

Meg Samuelson

• Between Indian and Pacific Oceans: Reframing Australian Literatures. ARC SRI SR200200704. Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative in Australian Society, History and Culture, 2021-2024. Value: $178,38. Chief Investigators: Mandy Treagus and Meg Samuelson.
• Stories from the South: Public Book Club and Industry Partnership. Research Engagement Grant, Faculty of ABLE, 2023. Value: $5,000. Chief Investigators: Meg Samuelson with Matthew Hooton, Nicholas Jose, Maggie Tonkin and Mandy Treagus.
• [2022 L&T Grant team member – Embedding First Nations Knowledges in the Curriculum]

Andrew van der Vlies

• I am co-investigator on a UK AHRC-funded project (with Jade Munslow Ong) on literary modernisms in South Africa (total value £203,062), running 2021-2024.

Maggie Tonkin

• 2023 Lead CI on ARC Linkage LP220200559 ‘Reactivating Australian Dance Theatre’s Archive for the Future’ $295,855
• 2023 Stories from the South: Public Book Club and Industry Partnership. Research Engagement Grant, Faculty of ABLE. Value: $5,000. Chief Investigators: Meg Samuelson with Matthew Hooton, Nicholas Jose, Maggie Tonkin and Mandy Treagus.
• 2022 Research Maintenance $5,000 to fund UK archival research on R.D. Laing.
• 2022 Faculty of ABLE Grant Acceleration scheme $2,500 to prepare ARC Linkage grant application.

2017 National Library of Australia Fellowship $22,000 ‘The Choreographic Process of Meryl Tankard’

Lucy Potter

• Small Group Discovery Experience (SGDE) Grant Scheme: Supporting and developing staff and student engagement with SGDE via a curated repository of student work in Canvas ($40,000).
• Development of the Shakespeare Matters MOOC ($40,000).
• Beacon Global Learning Experience New Initiative Grants: $5000.00 for development of overseas intensive course ‘Shakespeare at the Globe’ ($5,000).
• Endeavour Mobility grants to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study overseas intensive course ‘Shakespeare at the Globe’ courses ($21,500)

Lisa Mansfield 

• ARC Discovery Project (with Prof Susan Broomhall and Prof Carolyn James) DP180102412 ‘The Italian Wars, 1494-1559,’ 2018-2020. $532,675
• Institutional Research Grant. Art History Institute of Australia (AHIA) in association with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), 2021. ‘Leonardo of the North: The Polymathic Creativity of Jan van Scorel.’ $5,000

Rosslyn Prosser

• Australian Research Council Linkage Grant  LGBTQ Migrations: Life Story Narratives in the South Australian GLAM Sector. ARC LP180100251. with South Australian History Trust and Migration Museum, 2020-2024. Value: $195,535. Lead Chief Investigator with Rob Cover, Mandy Paul, Nikki Sullivan.

Competitively Awarded Faculty and University Funded Projects

• Engagement and Impact Symposium. School of Humanities, Research Grant, University of Adelaide, 2018, Value $3,000.00
• Government of South Australia LGBTQ Grants Program, Department for Communities and Social Inclusion and FEAST: Marching Dunstans Project, 2015, $5,000.00
• Music and Memory: How Patti Smith Saved My Inconsequential Life., Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender Grant Article Development Fund May – November 2013. Value: $600.00
• Queer Memory: Narratives and Histories of Sexual Minority Communities and Subjectivities Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender Fellowship with Rob Cover. Value: $5,000.00. 2012–2015.
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Faculty Research Publications Incentive Scheme for submission of research article to journals and publishers. Value: $500.00. 2012.
• Digital Divisions: Improving equity in learning for students from diverse backgrounds through enhanced digital access and digital skill acquisition with Rob Cover. Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic: Learning and Quality Unit Internal Research Fund. Value: $4,784. July – December 2009.

Patrick Flanery

• Kate Pullinger at Bath Spa; she and I are plotting a joint conference on AI and Creativity.
• Prof. Chris Holmes at Ithaca College
• Profs. Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul at University of Pennsylvania 
• Jill Frank; a fine arts photographer and head of the photography discipline at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She and I are working on a project together that may develop into something bigger and longer-term.

Julian Murphet

• Researchers at the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, UNSW, Queensland, Deakin, Monash, Western Sydney
• Researchers at the Universities of Exeter, Sussex, Massachusetts (Amherst), Oxford, Boston, KU Leuven, Cambridge, Mississippi

Georgia Phillips

• Represented by literary agent Jane Novak, Jane Novak Literary Agency 
• Publisher Picador, literary imprint of Pan Macmillan 
• International Affiliate Member of Australasian Association of Writing Programs 
• Member of Australasian Animal Studies Association  
• Member of International Network for Theory of History 
• Literary critic, The Historical Novels Review (Historical Novel Society) 

Maggie Tonkin

•    Melbourne University (dance and theatre studies)
•    University of Western England, Cambridge University and Uppsala University (Angela Carter studies)
•    Flinders University and UniSA (Reset collective on cultural policy) 

Andrew van der Vlies

• University of Salford UK (partner on my AHRC project, likely to lead to more)
• University of St Andrews UK (Clare Gill, co-editor of Schreiner critical editions series, Edinburgh UP)
• Queen Mary University of London
• University of Pennsylvania (longstanding connections with the Department of English: Rita Barnard [co-editor, collaborator], Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Heather Love, Paul Saint-Amour)
• University of the Western Cape, South Africa (I am Extraordinary Professor; collaborations on Coetzee conference, excellent Centre for Humanities Research with strong lines to Mellon funding, possibilities for collaboration incl on theatre, creative industries, South-South connections, incl Latin America)
• Also strong links with people at: Birmingham, Exeter, Oxford, Utrecht, Stockholm, NYU, Columbia, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA

Lisa Mansfield 

• Researchers at the Universities of Western Australia, Monash, Auckland, Toronto, and Art Gallery of South Australia

Rosslyn Prosser

• Researchers and writers at RMIT, including the Non-fictionLab Research Group, Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

Tamlyn Avery

• The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
• “Playing Amanuensis to Inner Urges: Masculinity, Authorial Anxiety, & Wallace Thurman’s Typewriter.” Modernism/modernity 31, no. 4 (2025). Johns Hopkins University Press.
• “Passing as White-Collar: The Black Typewriter & the Bureaucratization of the Racial Imaginary.” PMLA/Periodicals of the Modern Language Association 139, no. 1 (2024): 66–81. Cambridge University Press.
• “‘Split by the Moonlight’: Beethoven & the Racial Sublime in African American Literature.” American Literature 92, no. 4 (Dec. 2020): 623–52. Duke University Press.

Patrick Flanery

• ‘All the Cake in the World: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce’, in Julia Leyda and Theresa L. Geller, eds., Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
• ‘“Why try / to revive the lyric”: Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss’, The Chicago Review. Nov. 2021. https://www.chicagoreview.org/why-try-to-revive-the-lyric-hoa-nguyen-an….
• ‘Casualties’, in Mascara Literary Review. January 2023. https://www.mascarareview.com/patrick-flanery.
• ‘Archival Technics’, in the Johannesburg Review of Books. December 2021.
• ‘Queer Influencers: Hujar and Warhol’, Art Gallery of South Australia, online exhibition catalogue text, ‘Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Medium’, March 2023.

Matt Hooton

• “Us Skeletons On a Blind Date, Waiting.” Westerly, 2022.
  https://westerlymag.com.au/digital_archives/westerly-67-2/
• “The Four Corners of the Earth (are getting hot and slippery and difficult to hold, say the angels, and who stuck gum under the ledge anyway?).” Resilience: A Mascara Literary Review Anthology (Ultimo Press), 2022.
  https://ultimopress.com.au/products/resilience?keyword=res
• “Nine Endings.” The Fiddlehead, 2021.
  https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/288
• “Evander Holyfield Dreams Through Time to Steal George Foreman’s Blueprints for the Perfect Non-Stick Electric Grill.” Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020.
  https://www.eunoiapublishing.com/steam-press?rq=scorchers
• “Welcome To Fordlandia.” Sweet Tree Review, 2020.
  http://www.sweettreereview.com/welcome-to-fordlandia-matthew-hooton

Brydie Kosmina

• Literature, Film, and Social Media.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Witch. Ed. Laura Kounine and Will Pooley. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2024-2025. Invited contribution.
• Luckman, Susan, Katrina Jaworski, Brydie Kosmina, Stuart Richards, and Rupa Ghosh. Eds. “Culture in Practice” Special Issue Continuum. Forthcoming, 2024.
• Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-25292-1
• “‘It’s not a natural thing’: Situating Twin Peaks: The Return within the Anthropocene.” Journal of Popular Culture vol. 54, no. 5, 2021. doi:10.1111/jpcu.13058
• “Feminist Temporalities: Memory, Ghosts, and the Collapse of Time.” Continuum “Precarious Futures.” 2020. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1842126

Bronwyn Law Viljoen

Books

• Notes on Falling. Umuzi/Penguin-Random House. 2022.
• Der Nachlass des Grafikers. German translation of The Printmaker. Trans. Cathrin Neufeldt. Akono Verlag. 2021.
• Le Graveur. French translation of The Printmaker. Trans. Elisabeth Gilles. Editions Zoé. 2019.
• The Printmaker. Umuzi/Penguin-Random House. 2016.

Essays, journal articles

• Nguni: A Genetic-Cultural Parallel Text. PARSE (Spring 2023). https://parsejournal.com/article/nguni-a-genetic-cultural-parallel-text/.
• How Poetic Language Enacts Agency [with Phillippa Yaa de Villiers and Fiona Zerbst]. Image and Text no. 37. 2023.
• Carla Liesching. FOAM magazine 61, Amsterdam. 2022.
• Up is Down, Left is Right: The Prints of Maja Maljević. Printmaking Today (Winter 2022), 26–30.
• Call-and-Response: Three Direct Gravure Prints by Cinthia Sifa Mulanga.  Printmaking Today (Autumn 2022).
• African Women Photographers. IMA magazine, Tokyo. 2021.
• Gideon Mendel. Aperture 234 (Spring 2019), 84-89.
• The Caretaker of Wounds: Pictures of the Deposition of Christ in the Work of Marcus Glaser. Image and Text 31 (2018), 88–119.
• Albert Adams and the Deposition of Christ. De Arte 53.1(2018), 27–48.

Lisa Mansfield 

• ‘Portraiture.’ In Early Modern Court Culture, ed. Erin Griffey (London: Routledge, 2022), Chapter 20: 309-324.
• Mansfield, Lisa, Jessica Stanhope, Philip Weinstein, ‘Pride, Pain, and Punishment: Cacofonix as a Model of Resilience in the Adventures of Asterix.’ International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) 24:1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 287-309.
• ‘Mary Beale: Pioneer of Portraiture.’ In She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art & Design, eds. Annika Aitken, Isobel Crombie, Megan Patty, Maria Quirk, Myles Russell-Cook (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2020), 18-25. 

Benjamin Madden

• “Kubrick’s Responsibility,” in Kubrick and Race, ed. Joy McEntee and Elisa Pezzotta. Liverpool University Press, 2025.
• “The Anxiety of Influence,” The Conversation, March 2023.
• “James Merrill’s Sprezzatura,” The Cambridge Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 3, September 2021, 219–241.
• “Mētis in Modern Life,” The James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 1, Fall 2021, 75–90.
• Antipodean China, ed. Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Giramondo, 2021. 

Julian Murphet

• Todd Solondz, Contemporary Film Directors Series (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2019), 186 pp.
• Faulkner’s Media Romance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 282 pp.
• Paperback edition: January 2020.
• Poetry and Communism: Writing against Capital, edited with Ruth Jennison (London: Palgrave, 2019)
• “Understanding Quad,” in Beckett and the Media, ed. Mark Nixon and Philipp Schweighauser (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022)
• “Transferring Suspiria: Historicism and Philosophies of Psychoanalytic Transference,” Film-Philosophy 26.1 (March 2022)
• ‘Preliminary Notes on the Poetics of Recent Work by J. H. Prynne’, Poetry Now conference, University of Sydney, June 5-6, 2023
• ‘Poverty, Poetics, Politics’, Poetry and/as Politics conference, University of Adelaide, June 9-10, 2023

Anne Pender

• Journal articles
  • Pender, A. Australia and China at 50: the New Wave Theatre and the Drama of Cultural Exchange, Journal of Australian Studies 2022. 46(4):482-495
  • Pender, A. Sustained Personal Contact: Recent Australian Productions on Tour in China, Australasian Drama Studies, 2021, 195-223 Article number 10.
  • Pender, A. Geraldine Brooks, Historical Fiction and Australian Writers in the US, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2020, 20(2):1-12.
  • Pender, Anne. “The Art and Craft of Biography: Personality, Performance and Politics’, Journal of Australian Studies. Submitted November 2022.
• Book chapter
  • Pender, Anne, Knight, Tiffany, Peters, Sarah and Seton, Mark. ‘Wellbeing for Student Actors: #Me Too and New Initiatives in the Australian Tertiary Drama Curriculum’, edited by Mathew White and Faye McCallum, Wellbeing in Education: New Research and Possibilities, Springer, 2023. In Press.

Georgia Phillips

• 2023. "Beyond the Marram Grass", Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature.
• 2022. “Noble Rot”, Overland. Issue 248: Spring. overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-248/poetry-noble-rot/
• 2021. “Red Carnation”, Meniscus Literary Journal, Vol. 9.1. www.meniscus.org.au/Vol9.Iss1.pdf
• 2021. “The Wedding”, Going Down Swinging. goingdownswinging.org.au/archives/the-wedding/
• 2020. "Passionfruit Politics", Social Alternatives: Music, Performance, and Protest. Vol. 39.

Lucy Potter

• ‘Suspending Ekphrasis: Christopher Marlowe’s “Brazen World” in Part 2 of Tamburlaine the Great and its Influence.’ Word and Image (forthcoming, December 2023).
• ‘Beyond Contested Influence: Disentangling Marlowe’s Dido from the Virgil Versus Ovid Debate.’ Classical Receptions Journal 11.2 (2019): 178-193.
• ‘Ekphrastic Catharsis: Marlowe’s Mural of Troy’s Fall in The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.’ Word and Image 34.4 (2018).
• ‘Christopher Marlowe’s “Golden World”: Ekphrasis and Sidney’s Apology in Part 1 of Tamburlaine the Great.’ Notes and Queries 65.1 (2018)
• ‘Telling Tales: Negotiating “Fame” in Virgil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Christopher Marlowe’s Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.’ In Fama and Her Sisters: Gossip and Rumour in Early Modern Europe.  Ed. Heather Kerr and Claire Walker. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.

Rosslyn Prosser

• Queer Memory and Storytelling: Gender and Sexually Diverse Identities and Trans-Media Narrative,  co-author Rob Cover Routledge, 2024 Queer Memory
• ‘Vonni Diva: Showgirl’ in Edward, M. & Farrier, S. (Eds.) Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene, (Engage). Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (pp 97–108) 2021
• Encyclopedia entry Creative writing and fictocriticism, Encyclopedia of Queer Studies for Elgar Publishing, 2025.
• ‘Silent corporeality: drag performance, lip-synching and the popular critique of gendered theatrics in Australian film’. Media International Australia, co-authors: Cover, R., Dau, D.,2021.,   
• ‘The Marching Dunstans: performing memory, queering memory’. Media International Australia vol. 165, no. 1, pp 25–36 co-author: Baird, B., (2017)

Peter C. Pugsley

Recent books

• The Cinematic Influence: Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan [co-authored with Ben McCann]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/cinematic-influence-9781501382956/
• Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline (sole-authored book). Edinburgh University Press, UK, 2022. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-japanese-high-school-films.html

Recent journal articles

• ‘River Road as Eco-Cinema: Framing China’s Yugur Ethnic Minority through Religion, Identity and the Environment’ [Hongyan Zou and Peter C Pugsley] Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 2025. Online 17 February. 1-21. doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2025.2465016
• ‘Publics of Interest and the Death of the Critic on Australian TV’ [Robert Boucaut & Peter C Pugsley] Media International Australia 194:1 (2025), 3-16. Online 13 Dec 2022. 
• ‘Activating Bollywood Buzz: Promoting Indian Film Superstars in Supporting Roles’ [co-authored with Saira Ali] Studies in South Asian Film & Media 12:2, 2022. 19-37.
• ‘The Vulnerable Nation in Japanese Cinema: Subservience and Realism in Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Dai Nipponjin [Big Man Japan]’ [co-authored with Akinori Nakamura] Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 12:1, 2020. 36-52.

Meg Samuelson

• ‘Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores’. Reading from the South: African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s Work, ed. Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall. Johannesburg: Wits University Press; New York University Press, 2023. https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/Reading-from-the-South/?k=9781776148363
• Samuelson, Meg. ‘Worldmaking from the South and “By the Sea” in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction’. PLMA: Publications of the Modern Language Association, March 2023.
• Samuelson, Meg. ‘The Blue Anthropocene and the Oceanic South: Reading Containerization and Inundation Diffractively’. Water Lore: Places, Poetics and Practices. Ed. Claudia Egerer and Camille Roulière. London & New York: Routledge, 2022. 39-46. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003218272-5/blue-anthropocene-oceanic-south-meg-samuelson?context=ubx&refId=1de549a0-186d-4b2d-9155-1cb197b4090a
• Samuelson, Meg. ‘An “international author, but in a different sense”: J.M. Coetzee and “literatures of the south”’. Thesis Eleven 162.1 (2021): 137-154. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0725513621991003
• Samuelson, Meg. Claiming the City in South African Literature. London & New York: Routledge, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003174189/claiming-city-south-african-literature-meg-samuelson

Maggie Tonkin

Best publications since 2020

• Tonkin, Maggie. 'Lessons in Survival: The De-funding of Restless Dance Theatre', Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy/ Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik.  8: 2 (2022):159-174.
• Tonkin, Maggie. ‘Terrible Intersections: The Party as Performative Space in Angela Carter's Fiction’ In J. Gustar, C. Sivyer, & S. Gamble (Eds.), Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play Sussex Academic Press, 2021. Pp.186-208.

Mandy Treagus

• ‘Inter-Racial Intimacies: Stevenson’s Late Pacific Tales.’ Literary Links: Scotland and the Pacific. Brill (In press – contract signed October 12, 2022, chapter submitted 20 Sept, 2021).
• ‘Queer Pacific Mobilities: The Translocal Poetics of Dan Taulapapa McMullin’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57.4 (2021): 1-14.
• Victorian Interfaces. Special Issue Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. With Madeleine Seys. 2020.
• ‘Flight of the frigate bird: Ocean Island, phosphate mining and Project Banaba’ Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 12.1 (2021):103-132.
• ‘Social Change and Masculinities: Exploring favourable spaces?’ Journal of Sociology (2021) DOI 10.1177/14407833211048241 With Pam Papadelos and Chris Beasley.

Andrew van der Vlies

• ‘Zoë Wicomb’s Angels of History: Literary Historiography and Historical Materialism in Still Life’. Research in African Literatures 53.1 (2022): 45-66.
• ‘Constellated in a Flash: On the Dialectics of Seeing (beyond Stasis) in Zoë Wicomb’s Work.’ English in Africa 49.2 (2022): 7-26.
• ‘Writing, politics, position: Coetzee and Gordimer in the archive.’ J. M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography, ed. Marc Farrant, Kai Easton, and Hermann Wittenberg. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. pp. 59-75.
• ‘World literature, the opaque archive, and the untranslatable: J. M. Coetzee and some others’. Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2021).18pp. [Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989420988744]
• ‘Publics and Personas’. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee, ed. Jarad Zimbler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. pp. 234-48.

Patrick Flanery

• Public Conversation: ‘Andy Warhol and the queer gaze’ at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 May 2023.
• Organizer and Chair: ‘Thinking Writing Now’, panel at Adelaide Writers’ Week, March 2023.
• Chair and Discussant: ‘What is it About Ireland’, panel with John Boyne and Louise Kennedy at Adelaide Writers’ Week dinner, March 2023.
• Organizer: One day conference, ‘The Lyric Now’, featuring Hoa Nguyen, Nam Le, Jill Jones, Anna Jackson, and Robert Sullivan. October 2022
• Conference Paper: ‘Freedoms of the Margin: Agnès Varda, Neoliberalism, and the Praxis of Cinematic Joy’, ACLA 2021 Annual Meeting. April 2021.
• Colloquium Paper. ‘Together Alone’. Voluntary Solitudes Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London. 11 June 2020.

Anne Pender

• Pender, Anne. National Library Invited Public Lecture 24 November 2022, ‘The Colour of Fire: Australia and China in the Theatre 1980-2020’.
• Pender, Anne.  “Asian Comedian Destroys America!”: Chinese-Australian Stand-Up Comedians and Contemporary Circuits of Exchange’, The Australasian Drama Studies Association Annual Conference, Auckland 8 December 2022.
• Pender, Anne. Invited Keynote Address ‘“The Art and Craft of Biography: Personality, Performance and Politics’, International Association for Biography and Autobiography Pacific Chapter Conference, Adelaide, 22 November 2021.
• Pender, Anne. University of Queensland Invited Australian Research Council Lecture Series on Reappraising the 1950s in Australian Performance Public Lecture, ‘Australian Theatre in the 1950s: Popular Theatre, Intimate Revue and the Rise of the One Man Show’, 15 October 2021.

Meg Samuelson

• ‘Wet/Dry: Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor in Conversation with Meg Samuelson’. Southern Waters: A Creative-Critical Symposium, University of Adelaide, 1-3 December 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2PxYUZKjZ4 
• ‘Containerized and Inundating Oceans: Thinking from the Cape and through Blue Focalisation’. Oceanic Imaginations: Fluid Histories and Mobile Cultures. Invited virtual workshop presentation, Columbia University, New York, 6-8 May 2021.
• ‘Waterways of Knowing: Thinking from the South and at the Ends of the World’. Post-Imperial Oceanics. Invited online conference recorded presentation, University of California at Berkeley, 4-5 November 2020.
• Thinking the World from Africa: Achille Mbembe in Conversation with Meg Samuelson. A ‘Stories from the South’ webinar cohosted by the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide; ‘Situations of Theory’ conference, Flinders and Adelaide; Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film, Adelaide; and English Department, Stellenbosch University. 29 October 2021. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_pa3CwIjU
• Southern Waters: A Creative-Critical Symposium, University of Adelaide, 1-3 December 2021. Three-day symposium featuring public readings and performances, conversations and panel discussions with writers, choreographers & dancers and literary theorists. Founding and coordinating convenor and host with Mandy Treagus, Maggie Tonkin, Matthew Hooton, Madeleine Seys, Theodora Galanis, and Nicholas Jose.  Link: https://able.adelaide.edu.au/events/list/2021/12/southern-waters-symposium
• Currents, Flows and Pressure Points in Australian Literatures: A Creative-Critical Symposium of ‘Stories from the South’, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide (Online), 20 November 2020. Co-convenor with Mandy Treagus.

Maggie Tonkin

Conferences/presentations since 2020:

• ‘With these fragments’: Eliotian ruination in Will Self’s Umbrella trilogy’ The Waste Land at 
• University of Adelaide, Friday 29 April 2022.
• ‘Dancing waters: the Aquatic Choreographies of Meryl Tankard and Adrienne Semmens’ at Southern Waters’ University of Adelaide 1-3 December 2021.
• Moderator, Q & A Adelaide Film Festival 2022: Benjamin Millepied’s Carmen (with Benjamin Millepied and Rossy de Palma) 26 October 2022, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide. 
• Facilitator Correlation: An Evening with Restless Dance Theatre. Public form, Hawke Centre, UniSA. Live streamed to Korea. 2 September 2021.

I was on the organising committee for the conferences:
‘Reset: A New Agenda for the Arts’ UniSA, Adelaide, 11-12 November 2021.
‘Southern Waters’ University of Adelaide 1-3 December 2021.

Mandy Treagus

• Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture – keynote at Association for the Study of Australian Literature conference. 2023.
• Organised Southern Waters symposiums and public readings. 2021.

Andrew van der Vlies

• Keynote Lecture. ‘Remembering the Future (Just) Past: Utopia, Nostalgia, and Redress in Early Post-apartheid Fictions, Reconsidered.’ Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures: Postcolonial / Postsocialist Dynamics of Time and Memory in Literature and Art Conference, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 28-29 October 2021 (video-link).
• Colloquium paper. ‘Spatio-Temporal Entanglements and Hinterland Ficto-Historiography: On Stasis and Still Life.’ Hinterlands Workshop, University of Amsterdam and Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, 3-4 June 2021 (video-link).
• Conference paper. ‘Olive Schreiner and the (Anti-)Colonial Southern-Hemisphere Sublime’. ‘The History of the Book and the Future of the World’: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2020, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 November 2020 (video-link).

Lucy Potter

• Shakespeare FutureEd Conference (University of Sydney, 2019): ‘Old Text, new Tech’.
• Shakespeare at Play (University of Melbourne, 2018): ‘Pedagogical Play: The Shakespeare Matters MOOC’.
• International Marlowe Conference (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 2017): ‘Marlowe’s Mural and a Paradox: The Virgilian-ness of The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage’. 

Lisa Mansfield

• Guest lecture (online): ‘The Art of Coupling: Conjugal Companionship and Carnal Intimacy in the Italian Wars.’ Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. 9 December 2022.
• Conference Paper (online): ‘The Dynamics of Cultural Transfer: Swiss Artist Mercenaries in Northern Italy.’ Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Annual Conference, The University of Sydney. 8-10 December 2021.  
• Masterclass: ‘Leonardo's Masterpieces: Painting, Portraiture, Polymathy.’ The Turbulent Mind of Leonardo da Vinci. Summer Short Course (Community Engagement Programs). The University of Melbourne. 20-23 January 2020. 

Rosslyn Prosser

• Is Poetry Dangerous? Singapore Poetry Festival 2022 Poetry Festival
• Queer Memory and Storytelling, Panel, Cultural Studies Association Australasia, Annual Conference, Adelaide. Australia, Dec., 2023.

Georgia Phillips

• Shortlisted Finalist in American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) Prose Prize, 2022
• Fiction Winner Ultimo Prize, Ultimo Press, Hardie & Grant, 2021
• Runner-up in the Scribe Non-fiction Literary Prize, 2018

Postgraduates (current)

• Abram, Stephen William
• Alyabis, Najla Fahad
• Bui, Thao Gia
• Carbone, Delana Louise
• Charlesworth, Clare Lesley
• Costessi, Jane
• Couper, Matthew Hunter
• Cox, Samuel Jesse
• Dickens, Lyn
• Do, Darryl
• Donovan, Margaret Mary
• Everitt, Owen John
• Germanos-Galanis, Theodora Irini
• Hagenus, Gillian Erin
• Hamilton, Laura Rose
• Hazel, Susan Chamney
• Hong, Yanyan
• Ishaya, David Osu
• Kellermann Williams, Idris Matthaeus
• Kingston, Angela
• Madden, Meg
• McNamara, Letitia Rajamma
• Molloy, Jennifer Lorraine
• Needs, Kathryn
• Nunan, Morgan Wesley
• Oswin, Verity Rose
• Paine, Juliet Ann
• Parker, Gemma Lynn
• Ramsden, Kristian Glenn
• Roberts, Naida
• Sunter, Jacob
• Sutcliffe, Alex William
• Tomaszczyk, Victoria
• Turner Goldsmith, Jane
• Westmacott, Taylor Earl
• Zadow, Sophie Elinor
• Zerna, Celine Michelle

HDR completions since 2017

HDR success stories

• Patrick Flanery
  • Principal supervisor for Karina Lickorish Quinn at Queen Mary University of London (completed 2020), whose novel The Dust Never Settles, written for her PhD, has been published to wide acclaim by Oneworld. Lickorish Quinn is now a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway University of London.
  • Co-supervisor for Glenn Diaz (completed 2021), whose novel Yñiga, written for his PhD, has been published by Ateneo de Manila University Press.
  • Co-supervisor for Naida Roberts (completed 2022), whose MPhil thesis has been passed.
  • Co-supervisor for Gillian Hagenus (completed 2023), whose MPhil thesis has been passed with no corrections.
• Matthew Hooton
  • Glenn Diaz (PhD 2022): Yñiga (novel), 2022. Shortlisted for The 2020 Novel Prize (Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions).
    https://glenndiaz.ph/books/yniga/
  • Lyn Dickens (PhD Candidate): Intertidal (novel-in-progress). Awarded the 2021 Write It Fellowship with Penguin Random House Australia.
    https://www.penguin.com.au/news/3065-write-it-fellowship-recipients-2021
    Gillian Hagenus (MPhil Candidate): Ordinariness (short story collection). Winner of the 2022 AAWP Chapter One Prize.
    https://aawp.org.au/news/opportunities/
• Anne Pender
  • Ms Jane Costessi, MPhil candidate (supervised by Anne Pender and Mandy Treagus) was awarded the Fred Johns Biography Scholarship and has been commissioned to write an essay on Geraldine Halls for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  • Ms Jane Turner-Goldsmith, PhD candidate (supervised by Patrick Flanery and Anne Pender) had a story accepted for publication in the American quarterly literary magazine, The Threepenny Review.
• Maggie Tonkin
• My former PhD student, Brydie Kosmina, was awarded a book contract from Palgrave Macmillan for her thesis on cultural representations of the witch. Her monograph, Feminist Afterlives of the Witch, was published in 2023.
• Mandy Treagus
  • Sam Cox – winner of A.D. Hope Prize for best essay based on a paper presented at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature conference. 2022.Theodora Galanis – winner of AULLA prize for best presentation at the AULLA conference, 2022.
  • Completion with no corrections: Kate Bowen. ‘The Masks That Wear Men: The Representation Of Masculine Masquerade In 1990s American Action Cinema.’ 2020.
• Lucy Potter
  • Dr Jane Nelson. Publication of PhD thesis: Shakespeare and Religio Mentis: A Study of Christian Hermeticism in Four Plays (Brill, 2022).
  • Dr Carly Osborn. Publication of PhD thesis: Tragic Novels, René Girard and the American Dream: Sacrifice in the Suburbs (Bloomsbury, 2021).
  • Dr Angus Love. MPhil thesis ‘Looking without knowing: Ranciere, Aristotle, and Spectating in the Representative Regime’ resulted in a £100,000 Chancellor’s International Student Scholarship to undertake PhD study at the University of Warwick.

Patrick Flanery

• Member of AI & Creative Technology Team from the University of Adelaide, which completed the CSIRO ON Prime training program.
• External PhD examiner for Bath Spa (UK), Macquarie, and Western Sydney universities.
• External promotion reviewer for Harvard University (Creative Writing) and the University of Oxford (English Literature).

Andrew van der Vlies

• Forthcoming collections
  • (Editor, with Lucy Valerie Graham.) The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee. London: Bloomsbury Academic, In Press [Sept. 2023].
  • (Editor, with Jade Munslow Ong.) Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, In Press

Other

• I hold an Extraordinary Professorship at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and have held a series of fellowships internationally, including at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, Rhodes University, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study/Wallenberg Foundation. I am regularly asked to act as external examiner for PhD theses, to assess promotions and tenure applications in the UK, US, and South Africa, to rank research outputs for research institutes and national research excellence frameworks (including in South Africa, UK, Netherlands, EU). I was for a decade editor of an innovative interdisciplinary Routledge journal, Safundi, and continue to serve on a number of journal editorial boards. I routinely act as peer reviewer for leading international journals and academic trade and university presses.