Ralph has designed and taught a wide range of units, including:
Australian Literature: 1945 to the Present
Postcolonial Fictions
Postcolonial Literatures in English
Postcolonial Literatures: Anglo-Indian Fiction
Literary Theory: White
Indian English Fiction
Shakespeare Wallahs (with both Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato and Rose Gaby) Colonial Adventure Fictions (with Lisa Fletcher)
He has supervised dissertations and theses at Hons, MA and PhD levels on various topics including:
Nayantara Sahgal; Alice Munro; Maori Writing in English; Shashi Deshpande; J.G. Farrell; the Indian Mutiny in Fiction; Mimic Men in Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim; Irishness in Australian Literature; lesbian writing in New Zealand; representations of ta moko; Salman Rushdie and Magic Realism; Meera Syal’s Anita and Me; Kate Grenville’s The Secret River; Textual Representations of A.O. Neville; Medicine, Medea and the Media: The Rise and Fall of Roy Meadow; Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang; Eve Langley; Annie Baxter's Tasmanian journals;William Dalrymple; Colonial islands narratives
He is currently teaching or contributing to several units at the University of Tasmania:
HEA103 Telling Stories (Launceston)
HEA104 Reading Stories (Launceston)
HEA370 Fictions of History
HEA404 Colonial Adventure Fictions (with Lisa Fletcher)
HEA408 Research Methodology
He is available to supervise in the following areas:
Colonial/Postcolonial fictions
Anglo-Indian fiction (particularly Mutiny fiction)
Indian English fiction
Colonial adventure fiction
J.G. Farrell
Paul Scott
