Dr Nina Philadelphoff-Puren

Background

Dr Nina Philadelphoff-Puren has degrees from the University of Sydney (BA Hons) and Monash University (Ph.D). She is a lecturer in the School, where she coordinates and teaches ENH1250 Academic Writing, ENH2/3780 Writing as Social Practice and ENH4175 Legal Fictions.

She is the Honours Coordinator for English and the School and convenes the English Research Seminar Series. She is also a member of the Trauma, Text and Testimony Research Group.

Research Interests

I have supervised doctoral and masters thesis on a diverse range of topics, including: the representation of motherhood in surrogacy legislation, the function of food in children’s literature, the writing of reproduction in Blake’s poetry, the cultural politics of sexual assault, tragedy in Australian and Italian literature, the history of light in photography, and feminine subterranean forms in classical Greek architecture.

Selected Publications

2008

• Hostile Witness: Torture Testimony in the War on Terror, Life Writing 5 (2) October 2008, pp203-220.

2007

• Speech Acts, Torture Acts in Deborah Staines (ed.) Interrogating the War on Terror, Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge.
• Genre’s Judgment: Discrediting Torture Testimony in the War on Terror, Law and Literature 19 (2).

2005

• Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance, Australian Feminist Studies (20) 45.

2004

• Dereliction: Women, Rape and Football, Australian Feminist Law Journal (21) December.
• The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualisation, Feminist Theory 5 (3) 243.
• Exhibiting the Hymen: The Blank Page between Law and Literature, The Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Text, Images, Screens , Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 34, 33-52.

2003

• The Right Language for Rape, Hecate, 29 (1), 47-58.
• (with Peter Rush) Fatal Flaws: Law, Literature and Writing, Law and Critique 14, 191-211.

2000

• Signifying Justice: Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism, Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism: Special Issue, Australian Feminist Law Journal (Eds. Nina Puren and Alison Young) 13, 6-15.
• Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture: Review Essay, Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism: Special Issue,Australian Feminist Law Journal (Eds. Nina Puren and Alison Young) 13, 152-163.