About the Department
Academic Staff
Head of Department
Tony Cousins
Professor MA (Syd); PhD (Monash)
Special interests: Renaissance literature and cultural
history, Utopian narratives, Australian colonial poetry, and
historiography of the
history of ideas.
Office: W6A 624
Telephone: (02) 9850 8772
Email: tony.cousins@humn.mq.edu.au
John Stephens
Professor BA (Hons) Melb., MA (Hons) Sydney.,DLitt Macquarie
Special Interests: The relationships between texts produced for children (especially literature and film) and cultural formations
and practices.
Office: W6A 626
Telephone: (02) 9850 8748
Email: john.stephens@humn.mq.edu.au
Rosemary Colmer
Senior Lecturer BA (Adel); PhD (Macq)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Special interests: Post-colonial women's writing,
African fiction in English, and African theatre.
Her main areas of teaching are in contemporary literature, twentieth-century
drama, and post-colonial writing.
Office: W6A 623
Telephone: (02) 9850 8731
Email: rosemary.colmer@humn.mq.edu.au
Carmel Davis
Lecturer Dip. O.T. (Syd)., BA (Hons) (Macq)., PhD
(Macq)
Special interests: Carmel's research focusses on
medieval literature and culture, and medieval medicine. She
has a special
interest in medieval
mysticism and its relationship
to contemporary religion and science.
Office: W6A 522
Telephone: (02) 9850 8868
Email: carmel.davis@humn.mq.edu.au
Marcelle Freiman
Senior Lecturer BA (Wits); MA, PhD (Macquarie)
Special interests: Post-colonial literature and theory,
the literature of diasporic communities, and the theory and
practice of creative writing.
Office: W6A 621
Telephone: (02) 9850 6892
Email: marcelle.freiman@humn.mq.edu.au
Helen Groth
Senior Lecturer BA (Syd), PhD (Cambridge)
Special interests: Victorian Literature and visual culture, Victorian women's poetry, nineteenth-century cultural history.
Office: W6A 633
Telephone: (02) 9850 8776
Email: helen.groth@humn.mq.edu.au
Antonina Harbus
Senior Lecturer, BA Hons (Qld), MA, PhD Toronto
Poetry and poetic language; metaphor; literary rhetoric and semiotics; constructing the self in narrative; dreams and the unconscious in English literature; modes of reading; Old English and Middle English language and literature.
Office: W6A 506
Telephone: (02) 9850 6802
Email: antonina.harbus@humn.mq.edu.au
Robyn McCallum
Lecturer Assoc. Dip. Visual Arts (U.W.S. Nepean), BA; Phd
(Macq)
Special interests: Children's literature, film and television; theories of
subjectivity; semiotics; and literature and the visual arts.
Office: W6A 628
Telephone: (02) 9850 8883
Email: robyn.mccallum@humn.mq.edu.au
Jane Messer
Lecturer BA (Macquarie), MA (John Hopkins),
DCA (UTS) Co-ordinates and
teaches the post-graduate courses in Creative Writing.
Special interests: The practice and theory of teaching creative writing,
with particular interest in novel and short story writing; ethnography and
writing corporate culture; literature and mothering.
Office: W6A 632
Telephone: (02) 9850 8738
Email: jane.messer@humn.mq.edu.au
Marea Mitchell
Associate Professor BA (London), MA., DPhil. (Sussex)
Special interests: Medieval
and renaissance literature, looked at from a marxist feminist
perspective; Cornish studies and the work of Dennis Potter.
Office: W6A 634
Telephone: (02) 9850 8754
Email: marea.mitchell@humn.mq.edu.au
Nicole Moore
Senior Lecturer BA (Syd), PhD (Queensland)
Special interests: Australian literature, women's
writing and Australian studies. Nicole is the review editor
of Australian Feminist Studies.
Office: W6A 637
Telephone: (02) 9850 6792
Email: nicole.moore@humn.mq.edu.au
Paul Sheehan
BA Hons (NSW)., PhD (London)
Special interests: Modernism, Literary thory, film studies, Samuel Beckett.
Office: W6A 622
Telephone: (02) 9850 8757
Email: paul.sheehan@humn.mq.edu.au
Administrative Staff
Mrs Frances Thompson
Departmental
Administrator
Office: W6A 641
Telephone: (02) 9850 8739
Fax:
(02) 9850 6593
Email: frances.thompson@humn.mq.edu.au
Office Hours
Monday 9.00 - 4.30pm
Tuesday 9.00 - 3.00pm
Wednesday 9.00 - 3.00pm
Thursday 9.00 - 2.30pm
Emeritus Professors
Tony Gibbs
BA (Melb); MA (Oxf), BLitt (Oxf), FAHA
Professor Gibbs retired in 1998 after holding the Chair of English at Macquarie
University for more than twenty years. His research ranges from the Renaissance
to the twentieth century, with special interests in modern drama, literature
and biography, in relation to intellectual, cultural and social history.
email: tony.gibbs@mq.edu.au
Yasmine Gooneratne
AO, BA (Ceylon); PhD (Camb), DLitt (Macq)
Professor Gooneratne holds a Personal Chair in English. She was Foundation
Director of the Post-Colonial Literatures and Language Research Centre at
Macquarie University 1988-1993 and was awarded the Order of Australia for
distinguished service to literature and education in 1990.
Research Fellows
Adjunct Professors
Virginia Blain
BA (Tas); BLitt.,(Oxon) FAHA
Special interests: nineteenth-century British literature,
nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian literature,feminist
theory,literary biography,gay and lesbian theory, and Virginia
Woolf.
John R. Parker
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Australian Research Fellow
Dr Alison Scott
BA York (UK), PhD Macq.
Special interests: Renaissance
Literature (particularly Shakespeare and Jonson), Early Modern
Material Culture, History of Ideas.
Email: alison.scott@humn.mq.edu.au
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Martia Bullock
Research Assistant
David Blair, BA Syd., MA Syd., FRSA
Honorary Associates
Marie-Louise A. Claflin, BA Syd., MA Calif.
Charlotte Clutterbuck, MA Syd., MLitt Oxf., PhD Syd.
Carmel T.B. Davis, BA Macq., PhD Macq.
Alison Halliday, MA Macq., PhD Macq.
Helen C Kilpatrick, MA Macq., PhD Macq.
Sung-Ae Lee, BA Ewha, MA Calif. State, MA Syd., PhD Macq.
Dale M. Lehner, BA Macq., MA Macq., PhD Macq.
Joyce C Miles, MLitt Brist., PhD Leic.
Joan Murray, BEd NE, BA Qld., MA Qld., PhD Macq.
W. (Bill) Noble
Teresa A. Petersen, BA Macq., PhD Macq.
Sarah J. Plant, BA W.Aust, PhD Syd.
Alison V. Scott, BA York (UK)., PhD Macq.
E. R. (Ruth) Waterhouse, MA NE PhD Macq.
Colin L. Yallop, BA Camb., MA Camb., PhD Macq.