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Paul Sharrad

BA, MA, PhD (Flinders)

Location: 19:1100
Telephone: +61 2 4221 4757
Email: psharrad@uow.edu.au

Paul teaches within the English Program of the faculty with particular 
interests in:

• Pacific Writing
• Indian Writing in English
• Colonial Romance
• Postcolonial writing and theory
• General introduction to textual interpretation

Research

Paul has research interests in Third-World cum Post-Colonial (and colonial) literatures plus cross-cultural ventures in literature. Other topics include: frameworks for comparative studies in these areas; the circulation of textiles and postcolonial writing; the work of Albert Wendt. He also has areas of interest in literary history, canon formation, literary reflections of the shaping forces (and contradictions) of contemporary post-colonial cultural politics and its engagement with new (and old) imperialisms.

Paul has also published on English-language writing from/about India, Australia, South-East Asia, and The Pacific. (Raja Rao, C. J. Koch, Nick Joaquin, John Kolia, Wilson Harris, Anita Desai, Ruth Jhabvala, EK Brathwaite, KS Maniam, Witi Ihimaera; past editor 'New Literatures Review')

Current Research Projects:

Work towards a book on Pacific Literatures
Work towards a book on Indian Writing in English
work on texts, textiles, trade and colonialism
Australian Literature and links to Asia

Thesis work successfully completed under my supervision:

Honours:
Salman Rushdie, (Richard Lever)
Indian Fiction of the Partition, (Katherine Thomas)
Nadine Gordimer, (Emma Bruce)
Alice Walker (Linda Van Smaalen)
Gender, Children's Lit. & Nadia Wheatley (Joanne McPherson)
The Indian Mutiny (Lynda Pinnington-Wilson)
Raymond Chandler (Dom Holloway)
Adaptation of Olive Schreiner to film (Tristram Baumber)
Baudrillard and Chinua Achebe (Maureen Clarke)
2007 Hybridity in Pacific Hip Hop (Annalise Friend)
2005 V.S. Naipaul & melancholia (Liz Mondel)
3 Diasporic Caribbean women poets & Nostalgia (Hannah Lendon)
2004 Jean Rhys (Catherine Geenty)
Albert Wendt (Katelin McInerney)
2002-3 East-West Encounter in Indian Writing (Amelia Sapre)

MA:
PNG Drama (Regis Stella),
Cusack/James' Come in Spinner (Marilla North),
Pacific Autobiography (Michael Hayes),
South African Women's life narrative (Jeanette Dean)
Gender representation in Bienvenido Santos' Fiction (Judith Balares),
Russell Soaba (Maretta Semos),
Feminism and Postcolonial writing (Derek Hanley),
Fiction of Catherine Lim (Beryl Batten)
Women’s writing from Melanesia (Anastasia Sai)
The Reception of Vilas Sarang (Saeed Ur Rehman) all successfully completed, 1987-97
Three Bangladeshi Plays and postcolonial literature (Khairul Chowdhury) completed 2000
Literature of the Illawarra (Peter Knox) co-supervisor, completed 2001
Humour in Women’s Indian Writing in English (Meeta Chatterjee) 2002
Women's Travel Writing in nineteenth-century Latin America (Luz Hincapie) 2002
MA supervisor for Antioch University external program, 1990-91. (Andrew McCullough, Autobiography), awarded 1992

PhD:

Expatriate writing by Australian women, (Karen Brooks) passed 1997 second supervision: Australian autobiographical writing (Ed Hills) passed 1998
HSC English Syllabus formation, (Gary Rosser) passed 2001
Women’s Writing in India (Shalmalee Palekar) passed 2002
Japanese Writing on the Pacific (Naoto Sudo) passed 2003
Globalisation and Nation: Occidentalism in Early Columbian historical fiction (Marta Cabrera) passed 2004. Co-supervisor.
Multicultural writing in Australia (Tamara Mabbot-Athique) 
Passed 2006

Select list of recent publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

Books:

‘Handcuffed to History’: Indian Fiction and Literary History (in press submitted 2007, Prestige Publications, New Delhi)

Raja Rao and Cultural Tradition, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1987 Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void, Manchester University Press/Auckland University Press, 2003.

Chapters in books:

1993

"Literary Legacies, Faltering Feet; Dancing a Pen to a National Beat" in Brij Lal ed, Lines Across the Sea: Colonial Inheritance in the Post-colonial Pacific, Brisbane: Pacific History Association, 1995: 199-212.

1996

"The Postcolonial Gesture" in Gordon Collier, Geoffrey Davis & Hena Maes-Jelinek eds, A Talent(ed) Digger: Creations, Cameos and Essays in Honour of Anna Rutherford, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996: 134-139.

"Culture Crossings: Spin-offs and Returns," in Bruce Bennett, Jeff Doyle, Satendra Nandan & Loes Baker eds. Crossing Cultures: Essays on Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific, London: Skoob Books, 1996: 33-40.

"Writing the Postcolonial Body" in G. Turcotte (ed.) Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, Wollongong: CRITACS, 1996: 173-192.

"Unsettling Promise: the Revenant in Postcolonial Writing" in The Contact and the Culmination: Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed Marc Delrez & Benedict Ledent, L3, U. Liege, 1996:341-52.

1997

"'One size fits all': Internationalisation and Post Colonial Studies" in Donald H. McMillen (ed) Globalisation and Regional Communities, Toowoomba: USQ Press, 1997: 245-254.

"Teaching Pacific Literature" in Anna Rutherford, Lars Jensen & Anne Collett (eds) Teaching Post-Colonialism and Postcolonial Literatures Aarhus: Dolphin/U. Aarhus Press, 1997: 142-7.

1998

"Pathways in the Sea: A Pelagic Postcolonialism?" Literary Archipelagoes/Archipels littéraires Jean-Pierre Durix (ed) Dijon: Collection 'Kaleidoscopes', Centre image/Texte/Langage. Editions Universitaires Dijon. 1998:95-108.

1999

"Writing in the Postcolonial Space: the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh" in S.N. Pandey (ed) Writing in a Postcolonial Space New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1999: 87-99.

"Pacific Islands Literature", Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century revised concise edition (ed. Steven Serafin) Farmingdale Hills, Michigan, St James Press, 1999, vol.3: 462-465.

"Wrestling with the Angel: Pacific Criticism and Harry Dansey's Te Raukura " nineteenth annual University of Hawaii Pacific Studies Conference, Honolulu, September 1994 (chapter 20 of Vilsoni Hereniko & Rob Wilson, eds. Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and Identity in the New Pacific, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999: 319-336.

"Mena Abdullah's Untranslatable Diasporic Identity" in A.L. McLeod ed. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Essays in Criticism New Delhi: Sterling, 1999: 252-261.

2001

“Unblocking the Muse: Wilson Harris, Raja Rao and The Cat and Shakespeare” Theory in Practice: Essays in honour of C.D. Narasimhaiah. ed. D.A. Shankar. Mysore: C.D.N. Felicitation Committee, 2001: 195-203.

“Islands and Ocean: Modern Pacific Literature”, in Tong Kee Cheong et al (eds), Ariels: Departures and Returns, festschrift for Edwin Thumboo Singapore: Oxford University Press, 2001: 146-58.

"The Word and the spirit: Economies of Faith and Fiction in the South Pacific" in Gerhard Stilz (ed) Colonies - Missions - Cultures in the english-speaking world: general & comparative studies, Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 2001: 64-74.

2003

2003 “Resistance and Reconciliation in the Later Fiction of Albert Wendt”, in Resistance & Reconcilaition: writing in the Commonwealth (eds, Bruce Bennet, Susan Cowan, Jacqueline Lo, Satendra Nandan, Jen Webb), Canberra: ACLALS, 2003: 371-81.

2004

"Trade and Textiles in the Pacific and India", Fabrics of Change: trading identities (Diana Wood-Conroy & Emma Rutherford comp.), Wollongong: University of Wollongong, 2004: 12-26.

2005

“Translations: Texts and Textiles in PNG” in Graeme Were & Susanne Keuchler (eds.) Clothing the Pacific 2 London: University College London Press, 2005: 123-134.

2006

“The Well-dressed Pacific Explorer: Thea Astley's Beachmasters : A Study in Displacement,” Ariel, 21(4), 1990, pp.101-117. reprinted in “The Well-dressed Pacific Explorer: Thea Astley’s Beachmasters”, in Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds, eds. Susan Sheridan & Paul Genoni, Newcastle-on-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2006: 77-89.

“Poetry and Desire: The Work of Dorothy Porter”, in Explorations in Australian literature, eds Jaydeep Sarangi & Binod Mishra, New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006: 66-82. (reprint of article in IJOWLAC 2. 2006).

2007

“Fabricating Community: Local, National and Global in three Indian Novels”, in Vijayashree, Mukherjee, Trivedi & Kumar (eds), Nation in Imagination, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007: 212-28.

“Mariquita: a hybrid biography from Guam” in Brij Lal (ed) Telling Pacific Lives, Canberra: ANU, 2007 in press.

“Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory” in Joel Kuortti & Jopi Nyman (eds.) Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007: 99-120.

2008

“Towards a Post-Diasporic Literary History” in R. Azhagarasan et al (eds), New Bearings in English Studies, Chennai: Orient Longman, 2008. 47.

Articles in journals:

1995

"Considerations of the Postcolonial in Connection with India," Littcrit, 21.1, 1995:23-39.

1997

"Struggle and Strategy: Literature and New Zealand's Land Wars" Wasafiri, 25, Spring 1997: 11-18.

1998

"Putting down roots: colony as plantation" Span 46 April 1998: 72-86.
"Sope: Problems and Prospects for an Indigenous Aesthetic in Pacific Writing" Journal of Literature and Aesthetics (Kottayam) 6.2, 1998: 9-19.

2000

"The Natural Environment" in Illawarra Visions catalogue for exhibition of University collections, curated Glenn Barkley, Wollongong City Gallery, June 2000: 24-30.

"'A Delicate Business': David Malouf's Shorter Prose", World Literature Today, 74.4 (2000): 759-68.

"Habits of Industry: Trade, tapa and Pacific Literature", New Literatures Review 36 (winter 2000):

2001

"Out of Africa: Literary Globalization and the Winds of Change", South Atlantic Quarterly, 100.3, 2001: 717-728.

2002

“Albert Wendt and the Problem of History”, Journal of Pacific History 37.1 (2002): 109-16.

"Still Life Moving: Albert Wendt's 'Photographs'", World Literature Written in English 38.1 (1999): 58-68, appearing 2002.

2003

Albert Wendt: Bibliography (with Karen Pearson) The Contemporary Pacific 15.1 (2004): 378-423.

2004

"Following the Map: a postcolonial unpacking of a Kashmir shawl" invited submission to Textile 2.1 (2004): 64-76.

2005

“Introduction”, Postcolonial Text 1.2 (2005). http://pkp.ubc.ca/pocol

“Trading Yarns: India, Australia and Ethel Anderson” New literatures review 41 (2005): 85-103.

“Towards a Paradigm Shift”. Interview with R. Azhagarasan, Dalit, 2004 reprinted in The Hindu (Chennai) January 2005.

2006

“Poetry and Desire: The Work of Dorothy Porter”, Indian Journal of World Literature and Culture, 2 (July-Dec. 2006): 11-22.

“Re-viewing Reviewing: Thoughts on Pacific Poetry and Hybridity,” Kunapipi 28.1, 2006: 206-12.

2007

“Frozen Relations: The Incest Theme in Indian English Fiction”, Littcrit,December 2007.accepted, forthcoming.

“Australian Literature and the Making of History”, Lemuria, 1.1 (2006): 55-74. (appeared 2007).

“Estranging an Icon: Eucalyptus in India”, Interventions, 9.1 (2007): 31-48.

“Tapa and Text: Hybrid Technologies and Pacific (Re)Possession” invited contribution to festschrift for Jeanne Teilhet Fisk (eds. Phyllis Herda, Heather Young-Leslie & Ping-Ann Addo) ‘Hybrid Textiles: Pragmatic Creativity and Authentic Innovations in Pacific Cloth’ (special triple issue of Pacific Arts, the journal of the Pacific Arts Association, New Series vol 3-4-5 2007:128-38).

Bibliographies

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Bibliography of Criticism of Indian Literature in English (1970-1990) A-Nan
Bibliography of Criticism of Indian Literature in English (1970-1990) Nar-Z
Albert Wendt
Non indigenous literary writings on the Pacific