Professor Susan Sheridan

Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and English

Postal Address:
Women’s Studies Department
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia

Room: 354 Social Sciences South Building

Telephone: (08) 8201 3272(in Australia); (618) 82013272 (outside Australia)

Fax: (08) 8201 3350 (in Australia);
(618) 8201 3350(outside Australia)

E-mail: Sue.Sheridan@flinders.edu.au

Academic Qualifications:
BA Hons (University of Sydney)
PhD (University of Adelaide)

Appointed to Women’s Studies Department 1987. Retired from teaching in 2006.

Areas of Expertise:

• Literature of the late c.19th and c.20th century, especially Australian; cultural studies, especially popular print media; feminist history and theory.

Major and Recent Publications:

• 'Violence, Irony and Reading Relations: Thea Astley's Drylands' in Paul Genoni and Susan Sheridan (eds) Thea Astley's Fictional World, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
  
  'Adrienne Rich and the Women's Liberation Movement: A Politics of Reception', Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 35, no.1, 2006, 17-46.
  
  'Feminism in the News' (with Susan Magarey and Sandra Lilburn) in Joanne Hollows and Rachel Moseley (eds), Feminism in Popular Culture, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006, pp.25-40.
  
  
• 'Women's Magazines' in Companion to Women's Historical Writing, (eds) Spongberg, M. Curthoys, A. and Caine, B., Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005.
  
  
• Christina's Stead's Last Book: The Novel and the Best-Seller', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2003, 2:41-52.
  
  
• 'Thea Astley: A Woman among the Satirists of Postwar Modernity', Australian Feminist Studies, 2003, 18(42):261-271.
  
  
• "The Day Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia" by Sylvia Lawson, Australian Feminist Studies, 2003, 18(42):331-332. (Book Review)
  
  
• Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years, University of NSW Press, 2002 (with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan).
  
  
• Along the Faultlines; Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing, 1880s to 1930s, Allen & Unwin, 1995.

• Christina Stead, Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1988.

As editor:

• Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (with S. Magarey and S. Rowley), Allen & Unwin, 1993.
• Grafts: Feminist Cultural Criticism, Verso, 1988.