Emeritus Prof Susan Sheridan

Position/s:Adjunct Professor, English and Women's Studies
Women's Studies
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Location: Social Sciences South (223)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Qualifications

BA Hons University of Sydney
PhD University of Adelaide

Honours, awards and grants

Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Research and supervision

Research interests

Australian cultural and literary history
Women Writers
Cultural theory

Publications

Books
Sheridan, S.M. (2011). Nine Lives: Postwar women writers make their mark. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.
Sheridan, S.M., Ryan, L., Baird, B. and Borrett, K.J. (2002). Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years. Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales Press.
Book chapters
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Some versions of coastal?: Thea Astley, Captain Simpson and the North Queensland Coast. In Susan Hosking et al, ed. Something Rich & Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, pp. 114-126. [online]. Available from: http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=718&cat=0&page=1.
Sheridan, S.M. (2006). Violence, irony and reading relations?: Thea Astley's drylands. In Susan Sheridan, Paul Genoni, ed. Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 164-175.
Refereed journal articles
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Dorothy Hewett's paths to the Chapel Perilous. Westerly, 54(1), pp.170-188. [online]. Available from: http://libris.kb.se/bib/11564828.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Generations lost and found?: reading women writers together. Australian Literary Studies, 24(3-4), pp.39-52.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). In the driver's seat?: Muriel Spark's editorship of poetry review. Journal of Modern Literature, 32(2), pp.133-142. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jml.0.0047.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). When was modernism? The cold war silence of Christina Stead. Hecate, 35(1-2), pp.204-218. [online]. Available from: http://www.cwds.ac.in/Library/cab_mar10.pdf.
Sheridan, S.M. (2008). Australian letters and postwar modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(3), pp.264-278.
Sheridan, S.M. (2007). Suburban Sonnets: "Mrs Harwood", Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(2), pp.140-152.

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Books
Sheridan, S.M. (2011). Nine Lives: Postwar women writers make their mark. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.
Sheridan, S.M., Ryan, L., Baird, B. and Borrett, K.J. (2002). Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years. Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales Press.
Book chapters
Sheridan, S. (2012). "Opposing all the things they stand for": Women Writers and the Women's Magazines. In P Kirkpatrick & R Dixon, ed. Republics of letters: literary communities in Australia. Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, pp. 195-204. [online]. Available from: http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781920899783.
Sheridan, S. (2010). Reading feminism in Kate Grenville's fiction. In Sue Kossew, ed. Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, pp. 1-16.
Sheridan, S.M. (2010). Kate Llewellyn and Feminism. In Paul Sharrad, ed. Kate Llewellyn. Wollongong NSW: University of Wollongong Press, pp. 104-112. [online]. Available from: http://www.uow.edu.au/research/uowpress/books.html.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Introduction. In Bush Studies. Sydney: Sydney University Press, pp. v-xi.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Australian feminism?: women writers and literary studies. In Amit Sarwal, Reema Sarwal, ed. Reading down under?: Australian literary studies reader. New Delhi: SSS Publications, pp. 106-113. [online]. Available from: http://www.easa-australianstudies.net/contents/sources/OrderForm_RDU_Australia.pdf.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Some versions of coastal?: Thea Astley, Captain Simpson and the North Queensland Coast. In Susan Hosking et al, ed. Something Rich & Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, pp. 114-126. [online]. Available from: http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=718&cat=0&page=1.
Sheridan, S.M., Magarey, S. and Lilburn, S.G. (2006). Feminism in the news. In Joanne Hollows, Rachel Moseley, ed. Feminism in Popular Culture. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, pp. 25-40.
Sheridan, S.M. (2006). Violence, irony and reading relations?: Thea Astley's drylands. In Susan Sheridan, Paul Genoni, ed. Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 164-175.
Sheridan, S.M. (2005). Women's Magazines. In Companion to Women's Historical writing. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 607-608.
Sheridan, S.M. (2001). Are we Post-Colonial Yet? In Bird; Dixon; Lee, ed. Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950 - 2000. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, pp. 364-368.
Sheridan, S.M. (2001). Popular Culture. In Bird; Dixon; Lee, ed. Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950 - 2000. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, pp. 186-193.
Sheridan, S.M. (2001). Popular Culture. In Kramerae, C; Spender, D, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Women. London, UK: Routledge.
Refereed journal articles
Sheridan, S.M. (2012). "Cranford at Moreton Bay": Jessica Anderson's The Commandant. Southerly, 72(1), pp.121-135. [online]. Available from: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=787195378484524;res=IELLCC.
Sheridan, S.M. (2012). White Women Writing in the Contact Zone: Catherine Martin and Nancy Cato. Australian Feminist Studies, 27(73), pp.249-257. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2012.700259.
Sheridan, S. (2011). Historical novels challenging the national story. History Australia: Journal of The Australian Historical Association, 8(2), pp.7-20. [online]. Available from: http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/722.
Sheridan, S. (2011). A friendship in letters: the correspondance of Judith Wright and Barbara Blackman. Life Writing, 8(2), pp.203-217. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2011.559736.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Generations lost and found?: reading women writers together. Australian Literary Studies, 24(3-4), pp.39-52.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). Dorothy Hewett's paths to the Chapel Perilous. Westerly, 54(1), pp.170-188. [online]. Available from: http://libris.kb.se/bib/11564828.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). In the driver's seat?: Muriel Spark's editorship of poetry review. Journal of Modern Literature, 32(2), pp.133-142. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jml.0.0047.
Sheridan, S.M. (2009). When was modernism? The cold war silence of Christina Stead. Hecate, 35(1-2), pp.204-218. [online]. Available from: http://www.cwds.ac.in/Library/cab_mar10.pdf.
Sheridan, S.M. (2008). Australian letters and postwar modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(3), pp.264-278.
Sheridan, S.M. (2007). Gentlemen's agreements: Southerly's first editors. Southerly, 67(1-2), pp.333-347.
Sheridan, S.M. (2007). Suburban Sonnets: "Mrs Harwood", Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(2), pp.140-152.
Sheridan, S.M. (2006). Adrienne Rich and the women's liberation movement?: a politics of reception. Women's Studies, 35(1), pp.17-45. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497870500443813.
Sheridan, S.M. (2003). Christina's Stead's Last Book: The Novel and the Best-Seller. JASAL: Journal of The Association For The Study of Australian Literature, 2, pp.41-52.
Sheridan, S.M. (2003). "Thea Astley: A Woman among the Satirists of Postwar Modernity". Australian Feminist Studies, 18(42), pp.261-271. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0816464032000151748.
Sheridan, S.M. (2002). My Brilliant Career: The Career of the Career. Australian Literary Studies, 20(4), pp.330-335.
Sheridan, S.M. (2002). Cold War, home front: Australian women writers and artists in the 1950s. Australian Literary Studies, 20(3), pp.155-166. [online]. Available from: http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200205699;res=APAFT.
Sheridan, S.M. and Furby, P. (2002). An Artist in the WAAAF: Elsa Russell's War. Hecate, 28(2), pp.157-173.
Sheridan, S.M. (2002). Words and things: Some feminist debates on culture and materialism. Australian Feminist Studies, 17(37), pp.23-30. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164640220123425.
Sheridan, S.M. and Magarey, S. (2002). Local, Global, Regional: Women's Studies in Australia. Feminist Studies, 28(1), pp.129-152.
Refereed conference papers
Sheridan, S.M. and Lilburn, S.G. (2003). Fragments of an international feminism: Australian print media reporting of four International women's conferences. In Casting new shadows: proceedings of the Australian Women's Studies Association Conference 2001. Australian Women's Studies Association Conference.
Journal articles
Sheridan, S.M. (2003). The Day Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia by Sylvia Lawson (Book Review). Australian Feminist Studies, 18(42), pp.331-332. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0816464032000171412.
Sheridan, S.M. (2001). Review of Carole Ferrier, Jean Derrany: Romantic Revolutionary. Australian Literary Studies, 19(4), pp.442-446.
Other public research outputs
Sheridan, S.M. and Genoni, P. (2006). Editors. Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds.

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Professional and community engagement

Expertise for media contact

  • Australian Literature especially women writers
  • Feminist Theory position of women in Western societies and cultures; strategies for change
  • Gender and Australian Cultural History especially media history

Subject/s

  • Australia
  • Culture
  • Gender Studies
  • Literature - Australian
  • Women


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