Professor Leigh Dale

BA UWA, MA PhD Qld

Location: 19.2109
Phone: +61 2 4221 3621
Email: ldale@uow.edu.au

Biography

I am from Mudgee, in central west New South Wales, and have worked at the universities of Southern Queensland and Queensland. My main area of research and teaching interest is Australian/postcolonial literatures, and I edit the academic journal Australian Literary Studies. My other key area of research interest over the past decade has been the history of self harm in medical cultures and so I’m currently working on a book about that topic as well as revising The English Men (1997), a history of the teaching of literature in Australian universities and the project ‘resourceful reading’. 

Research Profile

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Selected Publications

Economies of Representation, 1790 – 2000: Colonialism and Commerce. Ed., with Helen Gilbert. Burlington and London: Ashgate, 2007.

On the Western Edge: Comparative Essays in Australian and Japanese Studies. Ed., with Masayo Tada. Fremantle: Network Books, 2007.

The English Men: Professing Literature in Australian Universities. Canberra: ASAL, 1997.

General, Theoretical, and Comparative Criticism of the Post-Colonial Literatures in English, 1970-1993. Compiled by Alan Lawson, Leigh Dale, Helen Tiffin and Shane Rowlands. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1997.

‘New Literatures: Australia [2007].’  With Chris Tiffin. Year’s Work in English Studies 88.1 (2009).

‘Just Scratching the Surface: Reading Franklin’s Cockatoos.’ Southerly 67.1–2 (2007): 377–90.

‘George Grey in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.’ Writing, Travel and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology. Ed. Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 19–45.

‘Gay and Lesbian Writing.’ With Damien Barlow. A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900. Ed. Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer. New York: Camden House, 2007. 443–58.

 ‘Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment.’ Five Emus to the King of Siam: Post-colonialism and the Environment. Ed. Helen Tiffin. Cross/Cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 1–14.

‘George Grey in Ireland: Narrative and Network.’ Colonial Lives. Ed. Alan Lester and David Lambert. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 145–75.

Current Research Programs

  • The history and historiography of self harm in western cultures;
  • Resourceful Reading, with Katherine Bode (UTas), Robert Dixon (Sydney) and Gillian Whitlock (Qld). New archives for Australian literary study.
  • Advisor to an online anthology of Australian literary criticism for teachers with Linda Hale and in conjunction with AustLit
Last reviewed: 12 November, 2009