Dr Guy Davidson

BA (VUW, NZ), MA (Sydney), PhD (Sydney)

Location: 19:1102
Telephone: (02) 4221 4733
Email: guy@uow.edu.au


Guy teaches in the English Studies Program with particular interests in:

  • Literary and critical theory
  • U.S. writing
  • Modernism and postmodernism

Research Profile

Research Interests

Research interests include: queer theory and sexuality studies, especially the study of gay male culture; theories of commodification; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British and American literary writing; twentieth-century American popular culture.

Selected Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

  • "Ornamental Identity: Commodity Fetishism, Masculinity, and Sexuality in The Golden Bowl." Henry James Review (forthcoming).
  • "'Contagious Relations': Simulation, Paranoia, and the Postmodern Condition in William Friedkin's Cruising and Felice Picano's The Lure."   GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.1 (2005). 23-64.
  • "Microscene, Minor Literature: Fiona McGregor's  Chemical Palace Southerly. 64.2 (2004). 31-40.
  • "Homosocial Relations, Masculine Embodiment, and Imperialism
    in Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide. "English Literature in Transitio, 1880-1920.
    47. 2 (2004).  123-141.
  • "Hardy and the Limits of Culturalism." Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies.   Ed. Tim Dolin and Peter Widdowson.  New York: Palgrave, 2004. 23-35.
  • "Liberation, Commodity Culture and Community in 'the Golden Age of Promiscuity.'" Australian Humanities Review 23 (2001).
    www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2001/davidson2.html
  • "The Pleasures of Soap." Siglo 13 (2000)
  •  ""Ancient Appetites': Romance and Desire in Robert Louis Stevenson", Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 3 (1997).
  • "Sexuality and the Degenerate Body in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 1 (1995).

 

Last reviewed: 21 October, 2009