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Reading, Writing, History: Emerging Methodologies in Feminist Literary Studies

A one day symposium 8 November 2002
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Venue

Elizabeth Burchill Room, Performing Arts Complex,
Building 68, Monash University, Clayton Campus

Keynote speaker

Associate Professor Carole Ferrier
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Women's Studies, Monash University.

Carole Ferrier is a Reader in English at the University of Queensland. A well known scholar in the field of feminist literary studies, her publications include As Good As a Yarn With You (Cambridge UP 1992) and Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary (MUP 1999). She is the editor of Hecate and Australian Women's Book Review.

Contact

Dr Maryanne Dever
Director, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research
Monash University VIC 3800

Program

9.00am Registration and coffee
9.30am Session One - Keynote Address

Carole Ferrier "Reinventing the New Woman and Socialist Feminism".
10.30am Morning tea
11.00am Session Two
  • Caroline Webb "Forming Feminism: Structure and Ideology in Feminist Fiction"
  • Nina Puren "Rape and Romance"
  • Karen Lynch "Reading for Proximity: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Heroine Identification"
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Session Three
  • Louise Poland "Out of Type: Bessie Mitchell and Viking Press (1939­44)"
  • Sharon Bickle "Michael Field's Letters: The Impact of Archival Research in Rethinking Female Collaborative Writing"
  • Ann Vickery "Into the Archive: Rethinking 'Recovery' Methodologies".
3pm Afternoon tea
3.30pm Session Four
  • Maurilla Meehan talking about her fiction writing.
  • Rachel Fensham "Woman on the Edge: The Desert and the WhiteImaginary in Jenny Kemp's Still Angela".
  • Jasna Novakovic "The Look of Nostalgia at Being Female".
5.00pm Drinks

Registration: $15 waged / $10 student.

Morning and afternoon tea and drinks are provided. Lunch is available in The Den (adjacent to the PAC Building).

For email registration, contact:
Maryanne.dever@arts.monash.edu.au

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