Assoc. Prof. Adrian Mitchell

BA Adel. MA PhD Qu.
Head of School
adrian.mitchell@arts.usyd.edu.au
+61 2 9351 2208

• Travel and Literature
• C18th Studies

• Australian non-fictional prose

• “Heroic Inventions: Christopher J. Koch's Highways to a War and Australian Fiction" in Cynthia vanden Driesen and Adrian Mitchell, eds., New Directions in Australian Studies: Proceedings of the inaugural conference of the Asian Association for the Study of Australia, Kerala, India 1997 (New Delhi, Prestige Press, 2000), pp.353-365.
• “'Amid th'encircling gloom': The Moral Geography of Charles Sturt's Narratives”,Vision Splendid: Journal of Australian Studies 66 (2000), pp. 85-94
• “Literally and Naturally Exotic: A Few Thoughts”, Matters of the Mind: Poems, Essays and Interviews in Honour of Leonie Kramer ed. Lee Jobling and Catherine Runcie (Sydney: University of Sydney, 2001), 241-249.
• With Geraldine Barnes, “Measuring the Marvelous: Science and the Exotic in William Dampier”, in Eighteenth-Century Life vol. 26, no.3, ed. Robert Maccubbin (Duke University Press, 2002), pp.45-57.
• “John Lang’s Botany Bay Tricks in India”, in Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women’s Studies to Politics and Tourism, eds. Cynthia vanden Driesen and Satendra Nandan (New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2003), pp. 305-316.
• ed. with Brian Elliott, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 (Melbourne: Nelson, 1970)
• ed. and introduction, Charles Harpur (Melbourne: Sun Books, 1973)
• "Fiction", in Leonie Kramer, ed., Oxford History of Australian Literature (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1981)
• ed., with Leonie Kramer, Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985)
• Inside the Novel (Melbourne: Pitman, 1986)
• The Short Stories of Henry Lawson (Melbourne: Sydney University Press, 1995)
• ed. with Cynthia vanden Driesen, New Directions in Australian Studies] (New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2000)
• "No New Thing: The concept of novelty in early Australian writing" in P.R.Eaden and F.H. Mares, eds., Mapped But Not Known: The Australian Landscape of the Imagination (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1987)
• "The Western Art of Makeshift: A.B. Facey and M. Allerdale Grainger" in Russell McDougall and Gillian Whitlock, eds., Australian/Canadian Literatures in English: Comparative Perspectives (North Ryde: Methuen, 1987)
• "The Extended Edwardianism of Australian Literature" in Alan Brissended, ed., Aspects of the Novel (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1990)
• "The Ambivalence of C.E.W. Bean" in Margaret Harris and Elizabeth Webby, eds., Reconnoitres: Essays in Australian Literature in honour of G.A. Wilkes (Melbourne: Sydney University Press, 1992)
• "After Demidenko: The Curling Papers", Southerly vol.56 (4.1996)
• "Tripping on the Light Fantastic" Sydney Studies in English vol.23 (1997-98)

Teaching

• Australian literature
• Edwardian literature
• Commonwealth/postcolonial literature
• Canadian literature
• comparative literature in English
• Australian non-fictional prose.

Specific Topics

• Nineteenth Century Australian Literature
• Australian fiction
• new literature in English