University of Sydney / Faculty of Arts / Department of English / Staff / Academic Staff

Dr Bernadette Brennan

Dr Bernadette Brennan

BA Hons, PhD.
Lecturer

+61 2 9351 6853

Selected publications

  • Just Words?: Australian Authors Writing for Justice. St Lucia: UQP, 2008.
    Ethical Investigations: Australian Literature and Poetics. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2008.
  • ‘Riders in the Chariot: A Tale for our Times’. JASAL 6, 2007. 32-45
  • ‘Unpacking Castro’s Library, or Detours and Return in The Garden Book’, JASAL Special Issue 2007, 25-36.
  • ‘Kim Mahood’s Craft for a Dry Lake: A Work in Progress’, Southerly 66:1, 2006, 91-105.
  • 'Recognizing the "Face of Love" in Francis Webb’s “The Canticle”', Antipodes 19:1, 2005, 31-41.
  • ‘Words of Water: Reading Otherness in Tourmaline and Oyster’, JASAL 3 (2004): 143-157
  • ‘Death and the Woman: Looking at Francis Webb’s “Lament for St Maria Goretti”’, Australian Literary Studies 21:3 (2004), 289-298.
  • 'New Literatures: Australia’, The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. (co-authored with Dr Ian Henderson)
  • 'Writing of Death and Death of Writing in Brian Castro’s Stepper’, in Departures:How Australia Reinvents Itself, Xavier Pons (ed.), Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002, 145-152.
  • 'Brian Castro’s Tokyo: Schizophrenic Semiotic’, in Australian Writing and the City, F.de Groen and K. Stewart (eds.), ASAL, 1999, 129-137. Also published in Southerly 60:3.
  • 'Drift: writing and/of annihilation’, Southerly 60:2 (2000), 39-50.'
  • Bringing them home: The Power of Story as Public Discourse’, in Australian Literature and the Public Sphere, A.Bartlett, R.Dixon and C.Lee (eds.), ASAL, 1998, 23-32.
  • 'Poetry and politics: In conflict or conversation? Aboriginal poetry, Peter Skrzynecki, and Bruce Dawe’, Sydney Studies in English 28 (2002), 103-123.
Back to Top

Areas of teaching and specific topics

Teaching

  • Australian Literature (contemporary/modern)
  • Literature and Ethics
  • Critical Theory

Specific topics

  • Australian Literature and the Public Sphere
  • Contemporary Australian film and drama
  • Aboriginal literature, film and drama
  • Stolen Generations narratives
  • Francis Webb
  • Brian Castro
  • postmodernism.
Back to Top