Dr Suzanne Kiernan
PhD (Sydney), BA (Sydney)
Research Associate
Research areas
- Suzanne Kiernan’s research interests are in eighteenth-century Italian culture, with a particular focus on the development of journalism, and in contemporary narrative.
Selected publications
- “The Exotic and the Normative in Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle Terre Australi Incognite by Zaccaria Seriman,” Eighteenth-Century Life, Fall 2002; 26: 58 - 77.
- "The Ridiculous, the Sublime, the Modern", Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 28 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999): 1-25.
- "Reflections on the Lipogram", Literature and Aesthetics, 7 (1997): 43-53.
- "Animadversions on Cultural Olympics", Australian Humanities Review, June-July 1997 (http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/emuse/home.html).
- "Casanova's Ultimate Conquest", Altro Polo, ed. Suzanne Kiernan (Sydney: The Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies, 1996), 144-64.
Areas of teaching and research supervision
- Dr Kiernan has taught specialised units of study on the Novel and History, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modernism and Futurism, and Eighteenth-Century Italian Studies and the History of Ideas at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney.
- She is a current contributor to the University of Sydney’s graduate program in Medical Humanities, a PhD supervisor in Italian Studies, and co-supervisor of a MA in Art History and Theory
Other professional contributions
- Member of the international jury for the award of the Zerilli-Marimò Prize for new fiction in Italian since its inception in 1998. She reviews books, theatre and opera. Contracted since 2001 to write program essays for Opera Australia’s new productions of Italian works.