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 consultancy

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.J., & Borrett, K.J., 2002. Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years, Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press.

Book chapters

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Some versions of coastal : Thea Astley, Captain Simpson and the North Queensland Coast. In Something Rich & Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, pp. 114-126.

Sheridan, S.M., 2006. Violence, irony and reading relations : Thea Astley's drylands. In 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), 170-188.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Generations lost and found : reading women writers together. Australian Literary Studies, 24(3-4), 39-52.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. In the driver's seat : Muriel Spark's editorship of poetry review. Journal of Modern Literature, 32(2), 133-142.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. When was modernism? The cold war silence of Christina Stead. Hecate, 35(1-2), 204-218.

Sheridan, S.M., 2008. Australian letters and postwar modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(3), 264-278.

Sheridan, S.M., 2007. Suburban Sonnets: 'Mrs Harwood', Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(2), 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., 2011. Nine Lives; Postwar women writers making their mark, St Lucia. Qld: University of Queensland Press.

Sheridan, S.M., Ryan, L., Baird, B.J., & Borrett, K.J., 2002. Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years, Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press.

Book chapters

Sheridan, S.M., 2011. Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville's Fiction. In Lighting Dark PLaces. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 1-16.

Sheridan, S.M., 2010. Kate Llewellyn and Feminism. In Kate Llewellyn. Wollongong NSW: University of Wollongong Press, pp. 104-112.

Sheridan, S.M., 2010. Reading feminism in Kate Grenville's fiction. In Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, pp. 1-16.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Some versions of coastal : Thea Astley, Captain Simpson and the North Queensland Coast. In Something Rich & Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, pp. 114-126.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Australian feminism : women writers and literary studies. In Reading down under : Australian literary studies reader. New Delhi: SSS Publications, pp. 106-113.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Introduction. In Bush Studies. Sydney: Sydney University Press, pp. v-xi.

Sheridan, S.M., Magarey, S., & Lilburn, S.G., 2006. Feminism in the news. In Feminism in Popular Culture. Oxford, UK: Berg, pp. 25-40.

Sheridan, S.M., 2006. Violence, irony and reading relations : Thea Astley's drylands. In 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. Popular Culture. In The International Encyclopedia of Women. London, UK: Routledge.

Sheridan, S.M., 2001. Are we Post-Colonial Yet?. In 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 Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950 - 2000. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, pp. 186-193.

Refereed journal articles

Sheridan, S.M., 2011. A friendship in letters: the correspondance of Judith Wright and Barbara Blackman. Life Writing, 8(2), 203-217.

Sheridan, S.M., 2011. Historical novels challenging the national story. History Australia: Journal of The Australian Historical Association, 8(2), 7-20.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Dorothy Hewett's paths to the Chapel Perilous. Westerly, 54(1), 170-188.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. Generations lost and found : reading women writers together. Australian Literary Studies, 24(3-4), 39-52.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. In the driver's seat : Muriel Spark's editorship of poetry review. Journal of Modern Literature, 32(2), 133-142.

Sheridan, S.M., 2009. When was modernism? The cold war silence of Christina Stead. Hecate, 35(1-2), 204-218.

Sheridan, S.M., 2008. Australian letters and postwar modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(3), 264-278.

Sheridan, S.M., 2007. Gentlemen's agreements: Southerly's first editors. Southerly, 67(1-2), 333-347.

Sheridan, S.M., 2007. Suburban Sonnets: 'Mrs Harwood', Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity. Australian Literary Studies, 23(2), 140-152.

Sheridan, S.M., 2006. Adrienne Rich and the women's liberation movement : a politics of reception. Women's Studies, 35(1), 17-45.

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, 41-52.

Sheridan, S.M., 2003. 'Thea Astley: A Woman among the Satirists of Postwar Modernity'. Australian Feminist Studies, 18(42), 261-271.

Sheridan, S.M. & Furby, P., 2002. An Artist in the WAAAF: Elsa Russell's War. Hecate, 28(2), 157-173.

Sheridan, S.M. & Magarey, S., 2002. Local, Global, Regional: Women's Studies in Australia. Feminist Studies, 28(1), 129-152.

Sheridan, S.M., 2002. Cold War, home front: Australian women writers and artists in the 1950s. Australian Literary Studies, 20(3), 155-166.

Sheridan, S.M., 2002. My Brilliant Career: The Career of the Career. Australian Literary Studies, 20(4), 330-335.

Sheridan, S.M., 2002. Words and things: Some feminist debates on culture and materialism. Australian Feminist Studies, 17(37), 23-30.

Refereed conference papers

Sheridan, S.M. & Lilburn, S.G., 2003. Fragments of an international feminism: Australian print media reporting of four International women's conferences. Casting new shadows: proceedings of the Australian Women's Studies Association Conference 2001.

Journal articles

Sheridan, S.M., 2003. The Day Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia by Sylvia Lawson (Book Review). Australian Feminist Studies, 18(42), 331-332.

Sheridan, S.M., 2001. Review of Carole Ferrier, Jean Derrany: Romantic Revolutionary. Australian Literary Studies, 19(4), 442-446.

Other public research outputs

Sheridan, S.M. & Genoni, P., 2006. Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds (Editors), Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

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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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