Associate Professor Anne Collett

BA (Hons), MA (Queensland), PhD, PGCE (London)

Email: acollett@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 4221 3736
Location: 19:1089

Biography

Anne is a member of the English Literatures Program with a particular interest in 19th and 20th centuries, inclusive of romanticism, modernism, and postcolonialism. She teaches ENGL121 Text and Gender, ENGL229 Romantics, ENGL264 Modernism, ENGL266 Victorians, ENGL345 20th Century Women Writers and ENGL400/906 Modernism’s Others.

Anne’s research interests lie primarily in the exploration of relationship between politics and poetics, and the intersection of race and gender with recent interest in gendered colonial modernity. She has published widely on postcolonial 20th century women writers. Her current projects include a comparative study of the representation of land and indigeneity in the work of Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian artist Emily Carr (with Dorothy Jones); a monograph on Kamau Brathwaite; and a study of the representation and significance of the domestic in Australian and New Zealand women writers of the 20th century (with Dorothy Jones & Lydia Wevers).

Anne is the editor of Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing and culture. Special issues include ‘African Diaspora & Popular Culture’ (2008), ‘Birds’ (2007), ‘The Kookbook’ (2006), ‘Women of the South Pacific’ (2005).  Information about subscription, contribution, current, forthcoming and past issues can be found at www.kunapipi.com (website currently being renovated and updated).

Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

  • 2009, [forthcoming] (with Dorothy Jones) “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Colonial Girl: Emily Carr and Judith Wright.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44: 3 (Sept)
  • 2009, [forthcoming] “Of Sages and Sybils: Alec Hope and Judith Wright” Australian Literary Studies (June)
  • 2009, [forthcoming] (with Dorothy Jones) "Emily Carr and Judith Wright: Gendered Colonial Modernity and the Representation of Iconic Tree-Scapes." Mosaic 42:3 (Sept)
  • 2009, [forthcoming] "The Significance of the Littoral in Beverley Farmer's novel, The Seal Woman." Australian Literary Studies (June)
  • 2009 [forthcoming], "Playing with Water: Elements of the Sublime in the Domestic Domain." Kate Llewellyn. Ed. Paul Sharrad. Wollongong: University of Wollongong Press
  • 2009, [forthcoming] “The Tempest, The Caribbean and the Development of a Black Aesthetic” [publication of Department of English, University of Wuhan]
  • 2009, "Ritual Masking and Performed Intimacy: The Complex 'I' of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Life Poem." Life Writing 6 :1, pp. 97-110.
  • 2009, "Pink Icing and The Sticky Question of Popular Culture" [on Pamela Mordecai] Kunapipi XXX:2, pp.99-106
  • 2008, “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Kate Llewellyn's Self Portrait of a Lemon.” Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature, 22:2, pp.111-115.
  • 2008 "Ambitious Angel: Jean Battten and the performance of gender in a man's country." Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s. Ed. Robert  Dixon & Veronica  Kelly. Sydney: Sydney University Press, pp.109-124
  • 2008, "Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake: trafficking woman." Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance. ed. Sue Thomas. UK: Cambridge Scholars, pp.143-162.
  • 2008, "Reading Intelligence: a discussion of the significance of 'reading' in Charlotte Bronte's The Professor." The Bronte Thunderer 5, pp.1-11.
  • 2008, “Syd Harrex: Restrospective for an Autumnal Poet.” Kunapipi XXX:1, pp.188-193.
  • 2007, “Fair Trade: Marketing ‘The Mohawk Princess’.” Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce. eds. Leigh Dale & Helen Gilbert. Aldershot & Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, pp.157-168.
  • 2007, “Life Sentence: Jamaica Kincaid and the exile of Elaine Potter Richardson”, New Literatures Review, 44, pp.33-41.

 

Last reviewed: 14 October, 2009