Associate ProfessorIsabelle Hesse

Isabelle's current book project examines the ways in which speculative fiction is used to critically engage with settler-colonialism in novels written about Palestine/Israel, Australia, and South Africa.

Supervision
Isabelle welcomes enquiries from students interested in working in the areas listed under 'research interests.' 

Current MRes, MPhil and PhD Supervisions

• Harper Boon. Globality Transnationalism and Form in Novels of Australian Migrant Women Writers 1970-2000. PhD. Associate Supervisor.
• Felicia Boyages. Objects Containers and Gender Identity in Children's and Young Adult Literature. PhD. Lead Supervisor.
• Emily Grochowski. The Materiality of Silence: Trauma and Textuality in the Poetry of Paul Celan. Master of Arts (Research). Lead Supervisor.
• Jerry Li. Re-Imagining Citizenship in Contemporary Israel. PhD. Lead Supervisor.
• Elif Offner. The Making of I: Language politics and shame in the works of Annie Ernaux and Leylâ Erbil. PhD. Associate Supervisor.
• Angelina Saule. The Erotosphere: Global Modernism erotic desire and poetic experiments in the works of Velimir Khlebnikov Nizar Qabbani and e.e. cummings. PhD. Lead Supervisor.

Completed Master's, MPhil, and PhD Supervisions

• Gazala Anver. The Politics of English in Sri Lanka: Perspectives from Postcolonial Anglophone Literature. Master of Arts (Research). Associate Supervisor.
• Mette Bruvick. Memories of a Contested Homeland: Nostalgia, Postmemories, and Exile in Mornings in Jenin, Here I Am,
  and A Map of Home. Master of Arts (University of Bergen, Norway). Co-Supervisor.
• Charlotte Okkes. Negotiating Postcolonialism through Whiteface: Performances of Whiteness in Contemporary Senegal and Australia. PhD. Associate Supervisor.
• Angharad Hampshire. Ordinary women? Writing the Female Camp Guard in Fiction an exegesis and The Mare a novel. DArts. Lead Supervisor. 
• Cyma Hibri. Principled Solidarity? Humanitarianism and Post-Intifada Documentary Cinema. MPhil. Lead Supervisor.
• Dashiell Moore. our write-to-write: A Poetics of Encounter Across Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean. PhD. Associate Supervisor.
• Nicola Travers-Robinson. The Figure of the Literary Outsider in the Work of Jean Rhys and T.S. Eliot. MPhil. Lead Supervisor.