Dr Ann Vickery
- Tel: +61 3 990 59137
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- Email: Ann.Vickery@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W11.25 11th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus
Ann Vickery holds a five year Monash Fellowship in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research. She joined the Centre in July 2005.
Research
Ann's interests include feminist literary and cultural studies, modernism, postmodernism, canon and community formations, Australian literature, American literature, and theories of influence and affiliation. Ann has a particular interest in innovative poetry and poetics and small press publishing. She is currently working on a study of women artists and writers of the New York School and a further study of the emergence of "women's poetry" in Australia in the 1970s. With Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman, Ann is completing a co-authored book, The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers. Ann has an ongoing research interest in innovative writing, theories of the avant-garde, collaboration, and Victorian and modernist supernatural. With Maryanne Dever she curated the Rare Book Exhibition, 'Australian Women's Writing 1900-1950' at Monash University in 2007.
Recently completed research projects include:
- Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry [Download the table of contents and introduction here] [View bookcover]
- Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing [Download the table of contents and introduction here ] [View bookcover]
A list of Ann's other publications can be found here
Honours and Postgraduate Supervision
Ann supervises students at the Graduate Diploma, Masters, and PhD Level. Recently she has supervised a Masters dissertation on the Monstrous Feminine in Victorian Gothic Literature and am currently supervising a PhD on radical contingency in avant-garde American poetry. She has supervised Honours students in the areas of gender and zines, gender and lifestyle magazines, love triangles in nineteenth-century women's literature, gender and the supernatural, gender and children's literature of the nineteenth century, and workplace design and gendered harm.
While Ann supervises across a broad range of topics in feminist literary and cultural studies, she is particularly interested to work with students on the following topics: innovative women's poetry; gender analyses of Left Bank Paris, Bloombury, Objectivism, the Beats, or Language poetry; magazine culture, friendships and coterie; archives and historiography; and theories of taste.
Professional Profile
Ann has degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Melbourne. Before joining the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University and a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Yale and Temple Universities, USA. She was a founding member of HOW2, an innovative journal of women's writing and scholarship, its editor-in-chief between 2000 and 2002, and continues to participate on its editorial advisory board.