Dr Gillian Dooley

Gillian Dooley
Position/s:Special Collections Librarian
The Library
Phone: +61 8 82015238
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Location: Central Library (319)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Gillian Dooley has been Special Collections Librarian at Flinders University since 1999, and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English. Her Ph.D. in English was awarded from Flinders in 2001. She is editor of the Flinders Humanities Research Centre's electronic journal Transnational Literature. Her publications include From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch (2003), V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer (2006), J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative (2010), and essays on a range of subjects from Matthew Flinders to Doris Lessing in Australian and overseas journals. She was co-editor of Alas, for the Pelicans, the book which arose from the first CRNLE Penneshaw conference in 2001, and she and Anthony J. Brown co-edited Matthew Flinders' Private Journal 1803-1814, published by the Friends of the State Library of SA in 2005. She is a regular book reviewer for Australian Book Review, Adelaide Review and Writers' Radio on Radio Adelaide.

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Flinders University 2001)
B.A. (Hons.) (Flinders University 1996)
Graduate Diploma in Library Studies (S.A.I.T. 1988)
Graduate Diploma in Secretarial Studies (Canberra CAE 1978)
B.A. (ANU 1977)

Honours, awards and grants

Ann Flaxman Prize for English Honours (1995)
Staff Award for Outstanding Contribution to Flinders University (2008)

Research and supervision

Research interests

  • Life and writings of Matthew Flinders.
  • Music in Jane Austen's life and work.
  • Doris Lessing
  • V.S. Naipaul
  • Iris Murdoch
  • J.M. Coetzee
  • Contemporary Australian literature

Publications

Books
Dooley, G.M. (2010). J.M. Coetzee and the power of narrative. New York: Cambria Press.
Dooley, G.M. (2009). Courage and Truthfulness: Ethical Strategies and the Creative Process in the Novels of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Dooley, G.M. (2006). V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer. Columbia, USA: University of South Carolina Press.
Book chapters
Dooley, G.M. (2007). Getting to Know Matthew: A Personal Account of Editing Flinders' Private Journal. In Serge M. Riviere et Kumari R. Issur, ed. Baudin-Flinders dans l'Ocean Indien: Voyages, decouvertes, rencontre / Travels, Discoveries, Encount. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 245-258.
Dooley, G.M. (2006). Doris Lessing versus Her Readers: The Case of The Golden Notebook. In Tapan Ghosh, ed. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: A Critical Study. New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, pp. 214-223.
Dooley, G.M. (2003). A definition of the writing self?: the enigma of arrival. In Purabi Panwar, ed. V.S. Naipaul: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Delhi, India: Pencraft International, pp. 155-172.
Dooley, G.M. (2002). The Uses of Adversity: Matthew Flinders Mauritius Writings. In Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin and Beyond, Essays and Poems. Adelaide, SA: Wakefield Press, pp. 85-92.
Dooley, G.M. (2001). Attitudes to political commitment in three Indian novels. In Dhawan RK, ed. Khushwant Singh: The Man and the Writer. New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, pp. 32-41.
Refereed journal articles
Dooley, G.M. (2010). Musicianship and Morality in the Novels of Jane Austen. Sensibilities, (40), pp.36-52.
Dooley, G.M. (2009). Iris Murdoch's Novels of Male Adultery: The Sandcastle, An Unofficial Rose, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and The Message to the Planet. English Studies, 90(4), pp.421-434. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380902796557.

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Books
Dooley, G.M. (2010). J.M. Coetzee and the power of narrative. New York: Cambria Press.
Dooley, G.M. (2009). Courage and Truthfulness: Ethical Strategies and the Creative Process in the Novels of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Dooley, G.M. (2006). V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer. Columbia, USA: University of South Carolina Press.
Book chapters
Dooley, G.M. (2013). Looking Back in Anger: The Transformation of Childhood Memories in two West Indian Novels. In M Bharat, ed. V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas: Critical Perspectives. New Delhi, India: Pencraft International, pp. 205-217.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). Iris Murdoch in the Shadow of the Precursor: a fairly honourable defeat? In Diana Glenn, Md Rezaul Haque, Ben Kooyman and Nena Bierbaum, ed. The Shadow of the Precursor. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 24-37.
Dooley, G.M. (2011). The Imaginative Promptings of My Many-Sided Background: V.S. Naipaul's Diasporic Sensibility. In Om Prakash Dwivedi, ed. Literature of the Indian Diaspora. New Delhi, India: Pencraft International, pp. 83-102.
Dooley, G.M. (2007). Getting to Know Matthew: A Personal Account of Editing Flinders' Private Journal. In Serge M. Riviere et Kumari R. Issur, ed. Baudin-Flinders dans l'Ocean Indien: Voyages, decouvertes, rencontre / Travels, Discoveries, Encount. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 245-258.
Dooley, G.M. (2006). Doris Lessing versus Her Readers: The Case of The Golden Notebook. In Tapan Ghosh, ed. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: A Critical Study. New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, pp. 214-223.
Dooley, G.M. (2003). Alien and adrift?: the diasporic sensibility in V.S. Naipaul's Half Life and J.M. Coetzee's Youth. In Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex and Sue Hosking, ed. The Regenerative Spirit, Volume 1. Adelaide, SA: Lythrum Press, pp. 118-125.
Dooley, G.M. (2003). A definition of the writing self?: the enigma of arrival. In Purabi Panwar, ed. V.S. Naipaul: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Delhi, India: Pencraft International, pp. 155-172.
Dooley, G.M. (2002). My Evening Song. In Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin and Beyond, Essays and Poems. Adelaide, SA: Wakefield Press, pp. 123-125.
Dooley, G.M. (2002). The Uses of Adversity: Matthew Flinders Mauritius Writings. In Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin and Beyond, Essays and Poems. Adelaide, SA: Wakefield Press, pp. 85-92.
Dooley, G.M. (2001). Attitudes to political commitment in three Indian novels. In Dhawan RK, ed. Khushwant Singh: The Man and the Writer. New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, pp. 32-41.
Refereed journal articles
Dooley, G.M. (2012). Naipaul's Women Revisited. South Asian Review, 33(2), pp.161-176.
Dooley, G.M. (2011). You are my Australia: Brian Medlin's contribution to Iris Murdoch's concept of Australia in The Green Knight. Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, 25(2), pp.157-162.
Dooley, G.M. (2010). Musicianship and Morality in the Novels of Jane Austen. Sensibilities, (40), pp.36-52.
Dooley, G.M. (2009). An autobiography of everyone? Intentions and definitions in Doris Lessing's memoirs of a survivor. English Studies, 90(2), pp.157-166. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/00138380902743401.
Dooley, G.M. (2009). Good Versus Evil in Austen's Mansfield Park and Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Transnational Literature, 1(1), pp.1-13. [online]. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/3346/1/FHD_MP.pdf.
Dooley, G.M. (2009). Iris Murdoch's Novels of Male Adultery: The Sandcastle, An Unofficial Rose, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and The Message to the Planet. English Studies, 90(4), pp.421-434. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380902796557.
Dooley, G.M. (2007). Well it is for me that I have books: books in the life of Matthew Flinders. Journal of Australian Studies, 90, pp.43-48.
Dooley, G.M. (2006). Coetzee's Freedom. Australian Book Review, 284, pp.36-41.
Dooley, G.M. (2005). Naipaul's Women. South Asian Review, 26(1), pp.88-103.
Dooley, G.M. (2005). The Post-War Novel in Crisis: Three Perspectives. AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 104, pp.103-119.
Dooley, G.M. (2004). Iris Murdoch's use of First person Narrative in The Black Prince. English Studies, 85(2), pp.134-146. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.85.2.134.30498.
Dooley, G.M. (2003). Alien and adrift?: the diasporic sensibility in V. S Naipaul's Half a Life and J. M Coetzee's Youth. New Literature Review (Wollongong), 40, pp.73-82.
Dooley, G.M. (2003). The Horizon Conquerors: Lessing and Naipaul in Post-War London. New Literature Review (Wollongong), 39, pp.75-88.
Journal articles
Dooley, G.M. (2013). An Arched Bow. Australian Book Review, (348), pp.19-20. [online]. https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/feature-articles/1348-348-features-dooley.
Dooley, G.M. (2013). Ways of Seeing. Australian Book Review, (352), pp.40-40.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). When Tired of Writing, I Apply to Music: Music in Matthew Flinders' Life. Bibliofile, 13(2), pp.32-38.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). Untitled Publication.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). Who are the Fools? Jane Austen's Regency World, 56, pp.48-51.
Dooley, G.M. (2011). When Tired of Writing, I Apply to Music: Music in Matthew Flinders' Life. The Britannia Naval Research Association The Journal, 5(1), pp.9-13.
Other public research outputs
Dooley, G.M. (2013). Thorough Bass and Human Nature: a Musical Tour through Pride and Prejudice.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). The Imaginative Promptings of my Many-Sided Background: V.S. Naipaul's diasporic sensibility (Public lecture). Faculty of Arts, Law and Education, University of South Pacific, public lecture series.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). Thorough Bass and Human Nature: A Musical Tour Through Pride and Prejudice (Voice and piano). [online]. http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26403.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). To Perfect the Discovery of that Extensive Country: Matthew Flinders' achievements in the exploration of Australia (Public lecture). Historical Society of SA Lecture Series.
Dooley, G.M. (2012). Who are the fools in Northanger Abbey? Jane Austen Festival Australia Blog. [online]. http://janeaustenfestival.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/who-are-fools-in-northanger-abbey.html.
Dooley, G.M. (2011). Naipaul, V.S. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, p.online. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405192446.2011.x.
Dooley, G.M. (2011). A red, red rose (Magazine article). Jane Austen's Regency World, (49), pp.49-52.
Dooley, G.M. (2011). Austen Music Transcripts (Online collection). Flinders Academic Commons. [online]. https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/handle/2328/15193.
Dooley, G.M. and Brown, A.J. (2005). Matthew Flinders private journal from 17 December 1803 at Isle de France to 10 July 1814 at London (First published transcript of Flinders' private journal). Matthew Flinders private journal from 17 December 1803 at Isle de France to 10 July 1814 at London.
Dooley, G.M. (2003). Book Reviews. Writer's Radio (Radio National).
Dooley, G.M. (2003). From a tiny corner in the house of fiction?: conversations with Iris Murdoch.
Chittleborough, M.A., Dooley, G.M., Glover, B.J. and Hosking, R.G. (2002). Co-Editor (edited collection of essays and poems). Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin and Beyond, pp.1-221.

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Professional and community engagement

  • Book reviewing for Australian Book Review, Australian Literary Review, the Adelaide Review, Writers' Radio (Radio Adelaide).
  • Honorary editorship of Transnational Literature e-journal.
  • Musical performances, including 'Jane Austen's Music', and provision via open access of transcripts of manuscripts from the Austen music collections.
  • SA Council Member, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.
  • Committee membership, Friends of the State Library of South Australia.

Expertise for media contact

  • Matthew Flinders Life and writings of Matthew Flinders
  • Literature Music in Jane Austen's life and work, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing
  • Contemporary novelists J.M. Coetzee, V.S. Naipaul

Subject/s

  • History - British
  • Literature - Australian
  • Literature - English
  • Literature - West Indian
  • Music

Further information

See full text of selected publications online in the Flinders Academic Commons
Jane Austen's Music website



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