Dr Gillian Dooley

Academic Level C

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 4 13625560

gillian.dooley@flinders.edu.au

Humanities

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in 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 was the founding general editor of the Flinders Humanities Research Centre's electronic journal Transnational Literature from 2008-2018, and was founding co-editor of Writers in Conversation 2014-2020. She has published three monographs, several scholarly editions and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her research interests include the writers J.M. Coetzee, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Jane Austen, and maritime explorer Matthew Flinders. She has presented a number of keynotes and public lectures, in person and online, all over the world. Her particular interest is in music and literature, and as a singer she often organises and performs in programs of music with literary themes. She has been a regular book reviewer for various journals and magazines, including Australian Book Review.

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)

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-)

Key responsibilities

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English (Full academic status)
President, History Council of South Australia (2021-)
Treasurer, Musicological Society of Australasia, SA Branch (2021-)
Hon. Librarian, Royal Society of South Australia (2021-)
Chair, Music Advisory Committee, Flinders University (2017-)
Affiliate member, J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (2013-)
Founding co-editor, Writers in Conversation (electronic journal published by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities) 2014-2020
Founding general editor, Transnational Literature (electronic journal published by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities) 2008-2018
Visiting fellow, Music, Southampton University (2017-2020)
Chair, conference committee for The History of the Book and the Future of the World: BSANZ 2020 (Adelaide, Nov-Dec 2020)
Co-convenor, 'Immortal Austen' conference, Adelaide, July 2017.
SA Council Member, BIbliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (to 2020)
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
Editorial Board Member, Iris Murdoch Review

Teaching interests

Occasional guest lectures and tutorials in English literature, editing and publishing
guest lectures in library studies at UniSA

Higher degree by research supervision

Completion

Associate supervisor: Literature (1)

Professional engagement

President, History Council of South Australia, 2021-
Affiliate member, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
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; talk on Flinders at Australia House, London, June 2019)
Musical performances, including concerts developed from the Austen family music books and other literary subjects.
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. (2018-2021j
Committee member, Corinthian Singers of Adelaide (2015-2021)
SA Council Member, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (2009-2015, 2018-2020)
Committee membership, Friends of the State Library of South Australia (2012-13)
Member, Iris Murdoch Societies (UK, Japan)
Member, International Association for Word and Music Studies
Member, Modern Languages Association
Member, Jane Austen Societies (UK, US, Adelaide)
Member, Coetzee Collective