Associate Professor Anne Collett

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

Anne is a member of the English Studies Program and teaches literatures written and spoken in English with emphasis upon the history of ideas, the social, cultural and political context out of which those ideas arose, and their literary representation (cross-referenced to visual arts and music). She has a particular interest in 19th and 20th centuries, inclusive of romanticism, imperialism, modernism, and postcolonialism. The courses she teaches include ENGL121 Text and Gender, ENGL229 Romantics to Victorians, ENGL264 Modernism, ENGL366 Africa in the New World, ENGL345 20th Century Women Writers, 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. Her current projects include a comparative study of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake (Marketing Women); a study of Jean Batten (representation of women’s solo flight 1920s & 30s); and a comparative study (with Dorothy Jones) of the representation of land and indigeneity in the work of Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian artist Emily Carr. She is also involved in a collaborative research project (with Paul Sharrad, Dorothy Jones and Diana Wood Conroy) on the inter-relationship between text and textile: Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial. Recent publications include:

• 2003 “’I offer this belt of verse-wampum’: the significance of wampum in the poetry and performance of Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake” in Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature, ed. Coomi Vevaina & Hartmut Lutz, New Delhi: Creative Press, pp.93-108
  
• 2003 “’If I cast no shadow, I do not exist’: the relationship between existentialism, materialism and feminism in the novels of Shashi Deshpande” in 20th Century Indian Women Writers, ed. Meenkshi Baharat, New Delhi: Pencraft International
  
• 2003 “Nadia Myre: A History of Unequal Halves”, [First Nations Artist] Kunapipi XXV:2, pp.86-90
  
• 2002 “A Snake in the Garden of The New Yorker?” [on Jamaica Kincaid] in Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory, ed. Gerhard Stilz, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp.95-106
  
• 2000 “Seamus Heaney: the political poetics of a bog man” in Literature and Politics in the Celtic World: Eds Pamela O'Neill & Jonathan M Wooding. Sydney: The Foundation for Celtic Studies, University of Sydney
  
• 2000 “Marketing Woman: Tehuana, Frida Kahlo and the Fabrication of Mexican Nation” NLR (Winter 2000) 36, 77-92.
  
• 1998 “Half Me and Half You: voices of real ladies and literary grandmothers in the poetry of Joan Crate and Margaret Atwood” in Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. eds Coomi Vervaina & Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998, pp.99-113.
  
• 1998 “’And Woman’s Tongue Clatters Out of Turn’: Olive Senior’s Praise-Song for Woman-weed.” Kunapipi (1998) XX:2, 56-67.
  
• 1997 Teaching Post-Colonialism and Post-Colonial Literatures. eds Anne Collett, Lars Jensen & Anna Rutherford. Aarhus: University of Aarhus Press, 1997.

Anne is the editor of Kunapipi, a bi-annual journal of creative and critical postcolonial writing. Recent special issues include South Africa Post-Apartheid, Malaysian Literature in English and Sport. Forthcoming issues include Caribbean Cultures (2004) and Women in the South Pacific (2005). Information about subscription, contribution, current, forthcoming and past issues can be found at www.kunapipi.com.

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E-Mail acollett@uow.edu.au
Phone: (02) 4221 3736