Dr Sarah Gleeson-White

BA, MSc Edin, PhD NSW
Senior Lecturer

Room S318
John Woolley Building
+61 2 9351 2391

Research areas

I am interested in the structures of literary regionalism and transregionalism, with a particular emphasis on the U.S. West and the South. My current project focuses on Southern frontier narratives, from the colonial period to the present.

Book

Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers. London and Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2003.

Book chapters

“Carson McCullers.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Ed. Patrick McDonnell, David Madden and Justus Nieland. Oxford: Blackwell Wiley (forthcoming).
“‘A Calculable Woman’ and a ‘Jittery Ninny’: Performing Femininity in The Ballad of the Sad Café and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers. Ed. Jan Whitt. Lanham: UP of America, 2007.
“Two Bodies in One: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café.” The Ballad of the Sad Café. (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations). Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2005.
“Antonya Nelson.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers After World War Two. Ed. Patrick Meanor. Farmington Hill, MI: Gale, 2001.

Articles

“William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses: An American Frontier Narrative.” Journal of American Studies (forthcoming 2010).
“William Faulkner, Screenwriter: “Sutter’s Gold” and “Drums Along the Mohawk.” Special Issue on William Faulkner. Mississippi Quarterly 62:3 (2009) (forthcoming)
“Playing Cowboys: Genre, Myth and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Southwestern American Literature 33.1 (2007) 23-38.
“A Peculiarly Southern Form of Ugliness: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor.” The Southern Literary Journal 36.1 (2003) 46-57.
“Revisiting the Southern Grotesque: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Case of Carson McCullers.” The Southern Literary Journal 33.2 (2001) 108-23.