Dr Kate Lilley

PhD Lond. BA
Senior Lecturer

+61 2 9351 2426

Research areas

• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Literature and Cinema
• Rhetoric

Selected publications

• "Dear Object": Katherine Philips’ Love Elegies and their Readers’ in Women's Writing 1550-1750, ed Salzman, Melbourne: Meridian, 2001, 163-178.
• (edited and introduced) The Blazing World and other Writings by Margaret Cavendish. Pickering/Chatto; NYUP 1992; Penguin Classics 1994.
• "Christina Stead: Writing Expatriation" in Diverse Voices: 20th Century Women's Writing Around The World, ed Jump, Brighton: Harvester 1991.
• "Women's Elegy 1640-1700" in Grundy and Wiseman eds. Women Writing History 1640-1740. Batsford/University of Georgia Press, pp. 72-92. 1992.
• "Blazing Worlds: Seventeenth Century Women's Utopian Writing" in Brant and Purkiss eds. Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760. Routledge, pp. 102-133. 1992.
• "Homosocial Women: Martha Sansom, Constantia Grierson, Mary Leapor and Georgic Verse Epistle" in Armstrong and Blain eds. Rethinking Women's Poetry. Macmillan, pp. 1997.
• "Tranter's Plots", Australian Literary Studies 14: 41-50. 1989.
• "The New Curiosity Shop: Marketing Genre and Femininity in Stead's Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)",Southerly 53: 5-12. 1993.
• "Living Backward: Slessor and Masculine Elegy" in P Mead ed. Kenneth Slessor. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, pp. 1997.
• "Designing Women, Designating Texts", in D Schreuder ed. Celebrating the Humanities: Jubilee Symposium. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, pp. 1995.
• "Lesbian Professor", Australian Feminist Studies 11/23: 81-88. 1996.
• Poetry represented in J Tranter and P Mead eds. The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, and S Hampton and K Llewellyn The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets.

Areas of teaching

• Gender and genre
• American and African-American poetry
• seventeenth-century literature, especially women's writing
• elegy
• feminist theory
• queer theory
• rhetoric