Dr Guy Davidson

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

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

Guy convenes and teaches the following subjects in the English Literatures program:

• ENGL264: Modernism (co-convened with Associate Professor Anne Collett)
• ENGL267: Nineteenth-Century US Literature
• ENGL334: Critical Theory: Development and Debates
• ENGL400/916: US Literature: Modernity and Postmodernity

Research Profile

Research Interests

Guy’s primary research interest is in the interrelations between sexuality, commodity culture, and literary form.  He has explored this interest in relation to a variety of specific fields—chiefly twentieth- and twenty-first-century US queer fiction, but also late nineteenth-century British and American literature, and contemporary Australian literature.  Other interests include cultural studies, film, the theory of the novel, modernism and postmodernism, and feminist theory.  
Current projects include the representation of subcultural life in US gay and lesbian literature in the post-liberation period (1970 to the present), and queer literary celebrity in the 1960s and 1970s.

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Book

• Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures.  (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) 

Refereed articles and chapters in books

• "'The Closet of the Third Person': Susan Sontag, Sexual Dissidence, and Celebrity."  Life Writing (forthcoming).
• “’Almost a Sense of Property’: Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, Modernism, and Commodity Culture.”  Texas Studies in Literature and Language (forthcoming).
• “Displaying the Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity.”  Australian Literary Studies 25. 1 (2010).  1-18.
• “Bar and Dog Collar: Commodity, Narrative and Desire in Jane DeLynn”
  Genders 51 (2010): http://www.genders.org/g51/g51_davidson.html
• “Utopia  and Apocalypse  in Samuel Delany’s The Mad Man.”  Journal of Modern Literature 32.1 (2008).  13-32.
• “Sexuality and the Statistical Imaginary in Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton.”  Queer Universes.  Ed. Veronica Hollinger and Wendy Pearson.  Liverpool: U of Liverpool P, 2008: 101-120.
• "Ornamental Identity: Commodity Fetishism, Masculinity, and Sexuality in The Golden Bowl." Henry James Review 28.1 (2007): 26-42.
• "'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 Transition, 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

Reviews

• Review of Celia Marshik, British Modernism and Censorship. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 51.1 (2008): 95-97.
• Review of Wendell Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. Working Papers on the Web  5 (2003).
  http://www/shu.ac.uk/wpw.
• Review of James Donald, Imagining the Modern City.  Australian Humanities Review 18 (2000).  http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-June-2000/davidson.html
• Review of Monika Reif-Hülser (ed.), Borderlands.  New Literatures Review 37 (2000).

Encyclopedia Articles

• “Masculinity.”  Critical Companion to Henry James.  Ed. Eric Haralson and Kendall Johnson.  New York: Facts on File, 2009.
• “Modernity/Modernism.” Critical Companion to Henry James.  Ed. Eric Haralson and Kendall Johnson.  New York: Facts on File, 2009.
• “The Princess Casamassima.” Critical Companion to Henry James. .  Ed. Eric Haralson and Kendall Johnson.  New York: Facts on  File, 2009).
• “Sir Edmund Gosse.”  Critical Companion to Henry James. .  Ed. Eric Haralson and Kendall Johnson.  New York: Facts on  File, 2009).
  

PhD Supervisions

Current (as primary or co-supervisor)

Sarah-Jane Burton, Structures of Influence: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton.
Jenn Phillips, Masculinity and Unreliable Narration in Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk.  

Completed (as primary supervisor)

Becky Walker, Lesbian Deliberations: The Constitution of Community in Online Lesbian Forums
Colleen McGloin, Surfing Nation(s) – Surfing Country(s)
Glenda Moylan-Brouff, Writing Counter-Histories of the Americas: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
Completed (as secondary supervisor)
Rochelle Hurst, Chick Lit and a Feminist Theory of Novel-into-Film Adaptation
Annie Werner, Curating Inscription: The Legacy of Textual Exhibitions of Tattooing in Colonial Literature
Wendy Pearson, Calling Home: Queer Responses to Discourses of Nation and Citizenship in Contemporary Canadian Literary and Visual Culture

Honours supervisions

Guy has supervised numerous Honours theses across literary and cultural studies on topics including: crime fiction; Henry James; Don DeLillo; Kathy Acker; George Eliot; H.P.Lovecraft; Anne Rice; the Norma Khouri scandal; online gendered identities; commodification, resistance, and subcultures online.