Dr Melissa Hardie

BA, PhD.
Lecturer

+61 2 9351 7737

At the moment I'm writing a book on true crime and the remediation of "fact" in a variety of genres and modes. I've recently written and published on televisual representations of crime in procedurals like Law & Order and Cold Case; Patty Jenkins' film Monster, representations of criminal ecologies and the Boston Strangler; Kitty Genovese. I'm currently working on a genealogy of true crime writing through the Gothic, analysing representations of mental state and criminal intent: "cold blood." I'm also pursuing work on the avant-garde and testimony through the work of Charles Reznikoff, Gary Indiana, and others. Historically my research has been contoured by an interest in psychoanalysis, rhetoric, deconstruction, and queer theory, and a specialisation in Modernism and Contemporary writing and film.

• "Torque: Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, and Authentic Feeling in the Smoky Mountains." The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self ed. Scott Lucas. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, pp. 23-37.
• "Cold Case: Ripped from the Headlines’, Flow 5:2 (2006) at http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1998
• "Shame Became Famous: Ellen and Anne's Coming Out." Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas, eds. Woman Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2006, pp. 28-39.
• "Repulsive Modernism: Djuna Barnes' Book of Repulsive Women." Journal of Modern Literature 29:1 (Fall 2005): 118-130.
• "Boy George." Who's Who In Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History ed Aldrich and Wotherspoon. London and New York: Routledge, 2001-2. 51-2.
• "Kate Millett." Who's Who In Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History ed Aldrich and Wotherspoon. London and New York: Routledge, 2001-2. 283-4.
• "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick." Who's Who In Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History ed Aldrich and Wotherspoon. London and New York: Routledge, 2001-2. 274-5.
• "Patricia Nell Warren." Who's Who In Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History ed Aldrich and Wotherspoon. London and New York: Routledge, 2001-2. 434-5.
• "Object Lessons." Southerly June 2001.
• "JonBenet Elegies," in Brass et al Anatomies of Violence (Sydney: RIHSS/PGARC). 2000 .
• "Beard," in Selzer et at, Rhetorical Bodies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press).1999 .
• "Granite and Fluff: Ayn Rand’s Camp Feminist Aesthetic", in C. Sciabarra and M. Gladstein eds. Ayn Rand and Feminism. (State College: Penn State Press).1999 .
• "Sublime Everyday: Gilbert Rodman’s Elvis, After Elvis." UTS Review (May).1999 .
• "Suburban Oblique: Tracey Moffat’s Fever Pitch, and François Maspero’s Roissy Express: A Journey through the Paris Suburbs." Australian Humanities Review, April (np).
• "Masochist Camp," in Natalya Lusty and Ruth Walker, eds. Masochism : disciplines of desire : aesthetics of cruelty : politics of danger. Sydney : PG ARC Publications, University of Sydney.1998.
• "Live Burial: Andrew Reimer’s Sandstone Gothic," Australian Humanities Review, Sept-Oct (np).1998.
• "Restless: Paglia v Sontag", Australian Feminist Studies, 12 (26), 217?225. 1997.
• "Modernism’s Genealogies of Reversal: Barnes and Joyce, Forster and Woolf", in Gerry Turcotte ed. Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones. (Wollongong: Centre for Textual and Cultural Studies), 145-160. 1996.
• "Loose Slots: Figuring the Strip in Showgirls", Xtext 1(1), 24-35. 1996
• ‘"I Embrace the Difference": Elizabeth Taylor and the Closet’ in Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn eds. Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism. (London: Routledge). 1995.

Teaching

• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century textual studies
• cultural studies
• critical theory
• queer theory
• theories of cultural difference
• rhetoric
• psychoanalysis.