Dr Antoinette Martin
Lecturer
Qualifications:
Contact details | Research interests
Antoinette Martin is a graduate of Deakin University, and she has also studied at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Antoinette graduated with a PhD in Literary Studies in 2006, and her thesis, entitled Post-Colonial Ambivalences: Christina Stead and Janet Frame, focused upon on post-colonial and feminist contexts within the novels of Christina Stead and Janet Frame.
Having taught Literary Studies at Deakin, Antoinette joined the Centre in 2007 as coordinator of the Australian History and Politics units Out of Empire (AUS1010) and Democracy and Nation (AUS1020) for the highly successful Enhancement Studies Program. Antoinette also teaches in the Contemporary Australia (AUS1060) unit.
Dr Martin is currently a member of the NCAS curriculum committee.
Research Interests
Antoinette Martin’s areas of interest and expertise include- Australian Literature, including Australian Gothic
- New Zealand literature (and trans-Tasman contexts)
- Women’s writing and feminist poetics
- Post-colonial literatures
- Australian film and music
- Australian 20th Century History (general)
- Gothic and Romantic Literature
Antoinette has presented conference papers internationally, including AAALS (American Association for Australian Literature Studies) in New York, where she presented a paper on Christina Stead and Trans-nationalism.
