Associate Professor Maryanne Dever
Tel: +61 3 990 53259
Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: Maryanne.Dever@arts.monash.edu.au
Room W10.20 10th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Research
Maryanne's research interests encompass feminist literary and cultural studies and questions of gender and higher education. In the area of literary studies, she focuses on critical engagements with literary archives and private correspondence and on Australian women's writing of the 1930s and 1940s. Her new book, The Intimate Archive (co-authored with Sally Newman and Ann Vickery) appeared June 2009. With Carole Ferrier (University of Queensland) she held an ARC Discovery Grant (2005-7) to support the editing of the letters between Nettie and Vance Palmer. She is currently editing Marjorie Barnard’s letters to Nettie Palmer.
Together with researchers at the University of Queensland's Social Research Centre, Maryanne has recently completed a study of gender differences in early post-PhD employment in Australian Universities was funded by the Senior Women's Forum of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (now Universities Australia).
Other recently completed research projects include:
- When Research Works for Women: a qualitative study of the conditions leading to high research productivity for women
- Families, Fertility and the Future: a team project investigating fertility decision-making in the context of Australia's falling birth-rate
- Feminist Futures: an international study of Women's Studies students and their career aspirations
An indicative list of publications, grants and conference presentations can be found here.
Fellowships and visiting posts
- Manning Clark House/Copyright Agency of Australia Fellowship, Canberra, 2009.
- Visiting Scholar, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW), McGill University, Montreal, Canada, April - June 2008.
- Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada, Jan - March 2008.
- Harold White Fellowship, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Sept-December 1995.
Postgraduate Supervision
Maryanne supervises students at Graduate Diploma, Masters and PhD level. Recently, she has supervised theses on sexuality and archives, the love letters of Michael Field, the history of feminist publishing in Australia, transgender and medicine, and migration and belonging. A full list of Maryanne's current and past supervisions can be found here. While she is interested in supervision across of a range of topics in feminist literary and cultural studies and feminist perspectives on contemporary social issues, she would be particularly interested to work with students on the following topics: engagements with literary archives; key questions in gender and higher education; female principal breadwinners.
Teaching
Maryanne is the Undergraduate Coordinator for Gender Studies. She was a recipient of a Dean’s Teaching Award in 2008, and currently coordinates the following units in the undergraduate Gender Studies program:
- GND1010 - Sex, Gender and Knowledge
- GND2010 / GND3010 - Contemporary Feminist Theory
- GND2080 / GND3080 - Feminism and Popular Culture: Love, Sex, Romance
- PLT2380 / PLT3380 - Gender and Politics
Professional Profile
Maryanne holds degrees from the University of Queensland (BA Hons) and the University of Sydney (MA Hons, PhD). Before joining the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research (CWSGR) in 1996, she taught at the University of Sydney (1988-1992) and the University of Hong Kong (1992-1995). She was Director of the CWSGR from 1999-2007.
Maryanne is currently President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA).
Maryanne is also a member of the editorial or advisory boards of: Australian Feminist Studies, International Journal of Women and Gender Research, Hecate, and the Irish Feminist Review, in addition to being the Associate Editor of Australian Women's Book Review.