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Dr Debra Dudek
BA, MA (Manitoba), PhD (Saskatchewan)
Location: 19:1099
Telephone: (02) 4221 5692
Email: debrad@uow.edu.au
Current Positions
Debra teaches in the English Studies Program with particular interests in:
- Australian Literature
- Canadian Literature
- Children's Literature
Subjects:
- Coordinator, ENGL259 An Introduction to Canadian Literature
- Coordinator, ENGL260, Nineteenth Century Australian Literary Culture
- Coordinator, ENGL375 Australia Fair: Nation, "Race", Culture
Debra is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies.
Research Profile
Research Interests
In general, my research interests include: feminist theories, especially theories of the body; postcolonial and diaspora studies; Australian studies; Canadian literature; children's literature; popular culture and media studies; film and other visual arts studies; women's literature; creative writing.
Currently, I am researching representations of activism in children's literature.
Selected Publications
'Embodying a Racialised Multiculturalism: Strategic Essentialism and Lived Hybridities in Hoa Pham's No One Like Me.' Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 17.2 (2007): 43-49.
Articles
"Approaching the Other in Twelve Canadian Picture Books." CCL/LCJ: Canadian Children’s Literature/ Littérature canadienne pour la jenuesse 33.1 (Spring 2007): 107-22.
"Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion in Veronica Mars." The Looking Glass 11.1 (2 January 2007). On-line.
"Under the Wire: Detainee Activism in Australian Children's Literature." Papers (December 2006): 17-22.
"Of Murmels and Snigs: Detention-Centre Narratives in Australian Literature for Children." Overland 185 (November 2006). 38-42.
"Dogboys and Lost Things; or Anchoring a Floating Signifier: Race and Critical Multiculturalism." Ariel 37.4 (October 2006): 1-20.
"'Blood Gashed and Running Like Rain': A Diasporic Poetics in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place Not Here and Simone Lazaroo’s The Australian Fiancé." Australasian Canadian Studies 23.2 (2005): 39-54.
"Desiring Perception: Finding Utopian Impulses in Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing." Papers 15.2 (November 2005): 58-66.
"Between Eight and Infinity: Mobilising the Fragment in Fred Wah’s Faking It." Open Letter (Autumn 2004): 38-52.
Contributions to Books
“"A Timeless Imagined Prairie: Return and Regeneration in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka Novels." History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press. 2005. 235-258.
"Begin with the Text: Canadian Aboriginal Literatures and Postcolonial Theories." Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literatures. Brandon, MB: Bearpaw Publishing & Theytus Books, 2002. 89-108.
