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Associate ProfessorBrigid Rooney

Honorary Associate

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Honorary Associate
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Poetics of space, place and modernity in Australian literature
  • Suburbs and suburbia in Australian literature
  • Representations of nature, place, environment and climate in Australian literature
  • Australian novels, twentieth century and contemporary, Indigenous and non Indigenous
  • Brigid researches and is pleased to supervise projects on a wide range of Australian writers and their works including (but not restricted to) Jessica Anderson, Steven Carroll, M. Barnard Eldershaw, Eleanor Dark, Helen Garner, Elizabeth Harrower, Elizabeth Jolley, Gail Jones, Melissa Lucashenko, Andrew McGahan, David Malouf, Gerald Murnane, Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead, Patrick White, Alexis Wright (among others)

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Teaching Literature and Writing in the Digital Age
    DVC Education1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    The Novel and the Suburb in Australia: 1900 to the Present
    DVC Research1 Jan 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rooney B
  • GRANT
    Retro-suburbia: urban dreaming and the Australian literary archive
    School of Letters, Art and Media1 Jan 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rooney B
  • GRANT
    Systematizing Quality Enhancement and Assurance Processes to Better Support Student Learning
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rooney B