Teaching Interests

Lucy has designed and taught a wide range of units in the fields of American, Australian, and Women’s Studies. She is currently teaching an honours unit, ‘Endangered Bodies in Colonial Space’, and is supervising postgraduate students whose topics include: narratives of the dingo in Australia; editing an unpublished journal kept by a woman who was also an artist in 19 th century Hobart; ‘reading’ the New England houses of three nineteenth-century American writers (Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain); the daughter of marriageable age in narratives of incest during the long 18 th century; reading the fiction of W. G. Sebald; the role of the medical expert in media coverage of trials for infanticide; and reading Steve and Blue: the fraught relationship between Eve Langley and her sister.