Associate Professor Giselle Bastin

Giselle Bastin has a BA (Honours) from the University of Adelaide, and a Ph.D. from Flinders University.

Key Roles:

• President of the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE)
• Course Coordinator of the Flinders BA and BA--Enhanced Program for High Achievers

Giselle's research focuses on the field of 'royalism' and biographies, biopics and histories about the British Royal Family, and representations of the upper-middle class and aristocracy in heritage film and English literature. Giselle is a regular media commentator about British royalty.

Indicative Publications:

• "From Fairytale Romance to Royal Soap Opera: The 1980s and 1990s Television Biopics of Princess Diana and Prince Charles," Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 15. No. 1 (2018) 194-214.
• "The Re-Centering of the Monarch in the Royal Biopic: The Queen and The King's Speech," Rule Britannia! The Biopic and British Identity. Suny Press, 2018.
• "Narratives of Domestic and Foreign Appeasement in the 2010-12 Upstairs, Downstairs," Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey (Rowman & Litchfield, 2015).
• "Precursor Texts in the Novel and Film of Atonement," In the Shadow of the Precursor (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012).
• "'There Were Three of Us in this Biography, So It Was a Bit Crowded': The Biographer as Suitor and the Rhetoric of Romance in Diana: Her True Story," Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 1:1 (2010).
• "Filming the Ineffable: Biopics of the British Royal Family," a/b: Auto/Biography, 24:1 (2009):34-52.
• "'The Innocent's A Broad!: Depictions of Australians In London in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Diana and Me," London Was Full of Rooms (Lythrum Press, 2006) 225-234.
• "Pandora's Voice-Box: How Woman Became the 'Gossip Girl'," Women and Language:The Gendering of Talk, Gossip, and Communication Practices (2011).