Dr Gillian Dooley
Academic Status
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English, having retired from Flinders University Library, where she had been Special Collections Librarian 1999-2015 and Publishing Support Librarian 2016-2017, in May 2017. She graduated from Flinders with a PhD in English in 2001. She is founding general editor of the Flinders Humanities Research Centre's electronic journal Transnational Literature and founding co-editor of Writers in Conversation.She has published two monographs and several scholarly editions. Her research interests include the writers J.M. Coetzee, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Jane Austen, and maritime explorer Matthew Flinders. She has a particular interest in music and literature, and as a singer often organises and performs in programs of music with literary themes. She is a regular book reviewer for various journals and magazines, including Australian Book Review.
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)
Ann Flaxman Prize for English Honours (1995)
Chancellor's Letter of Commendation (1995)
Staff Award for Outstanding Contribution to Flinders University (2008)
Affiliate Member, J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (2013-)
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English (Full academic status)
- General Editor, Transnational Literature (electronic journal published by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities)
- Founding co-editor, Writers in Conversation (electronic journal published by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities)
- Visiting fellow, Music, Southampton University
- Co-convenor, 'Immortal Austen' conference, Adelaide, July 2017.
- Member, Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities Management Group
- Chair, Music Advisory Committee, Flinders University
- Treasurer, South Pacific Association for Literature and Language Studies (SPACLALS)
- Treasurer, Corinthian Singers of Adelaide
- Affiliate member, J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
- Advisory Committee Member, New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences
- Advisory Board Member, Journal of Contemporary Literature
- Editorial Committee Member, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature
- Editorial Board Member, Gitanjali and Beyond
- 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
- Occasional guest lectures and tutorials in English literature, editing and publishing
- guest lectures in library studies at UniSA
- Book reviewing for Australian Book Review, Australian Literary Review, the Adelaide Review, Writers' Radio (Radio Adelaide).
- Honorary editorship of Transnational Literature and Writers in Conversation e-journals
- Public lectures especially on Matthew Flinders (including the Royal Society Matthew Flinders Memorial Lecture, Melbourne, August 2014; lecture in the Sir Joseph Banks lecture series at National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in September 2017)
- Musical performances, including 'Jane Austen's Music', provision via open access of transcripts of manuscripts from the Austen music collections and detailed cataloguing of the whole of the Austen Music Collections for the University of Southampton Library.
- Treasurer, Corinthian Singers of Adelaide
- SA Council Member, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (2009-2015, 2018)
- Committee membership, Friends of the State Library of South Australia (2012-13)
- History - British
- Literature - Australian
- Literature - English
- Literature - West Indian
- Music
- Contemporary novelists
- Literature
- Matthew Flinders
Jane Austen's Music website
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