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Assoc. Prof. Adrian Mitchell

BA Adel. MA PhD Qu.
Head of School

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Research Groups

Current projects

  • Australian non-fictional prose

Selected publications

  • “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)
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Areas of teaching and Specific Topics

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
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