Selected Career-best Publications

1. ‘Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy,' Exemplaria. A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2006) http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/SD/ [C1]
This article contributes to a festschrift for Sheila Delany and argues for a more theoretically-nuanced reading of surviving records in relation to Chaucer's career as a bureaucrat and available histories of accounting and administrative practices.

2. “Medievalism and Memory Work,” Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture, ed. Stephanie Trigg, Making the Middle Ages, vol. 8. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney (Melbourne/Turnhout: University of Melbourne Press/Brepols, 2005) 99-118 [C1]
Begins with traces of medievalism in the Tasmanian landscape and argues that medievalism - a reinvention of the middle ages - offers a mode of postcolonial critique especially relevant to academic discourses of medieval studies in Australia.

3. ‘Reading by Said's Lantern: Orientalism and Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe,' Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Dialogues and Culture (US) 5.3(2000) 350-57 [A1]republished in Al-Masaq Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean (UK) 15.1 (Mar 2003): 77-82 [A1]
Draws on previous published work and focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe. The article was first published in the US and was then reprinted in the UK.

4. ‘” ... anti-imperialist approaches to Chaucer (are there those?)” An Essay in Identifying Strategies,' Southern Review 27.4 (Dec 1994) 403-417 [A1]
This theoretical article refutes the claim of Gayatri Spivak, a foundational theorist in postcolonial studies, that Geoffrey Chaucer's texts are beyond postcolonial analysis.

5. ‘Where is the West,' Meanjin 52.4 (Summer 1993) 728-40 [A1]
This article uses postcolonial theory to analyse the supposed opposition between ‘the East' and ‘the West' which is fundamental to scholarship on western texts, such as Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise, that draw on eastern, or Arabic, texts as Chaucer's Treatise does.

6. Bodyjamming: Sexual harassment, feminism and public life , ed with and introduction (Milson's Point: Vintage/Random House, 1997). (296pp) — [excerpted] SMH internet site, November 1997 http://www.smh.com.au/icon/context/common/bk_bodyjam.html [B]
I was commissioned to edit, collect and write the introduction to this book of essays by leading academics, journalists, politicians and writers. It contains the first ever analysis of new journalism in Australia as well as leading-edge feminist and cultural analyses. The book was widely reviewed (14 reviews in new media and 5 in academic journals, 3 of which were A1/2 journals). It is a prescribed text in various Australian university courses, evidenced by records of the Public Lending Right and Educational Lending Right schemes.

7. ‘Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827-1881),' Dictionary of Literary Biography. Australian Literature 1788-1914 , ed. Selina Samuels (Detroit, Michigan, USA: Gale Research Co, 2001) 245-53 [C1]
This is the most extensive scholarly investigation of Leakey's life and works and appears in an international survey. It draws on original archival research and significantly extends and corrects the entry for Leakey in the Australian Dictionary of Biography . It is starred by the moderators of the AUSTLIT database for excellence.

8. '(Re)producing Caroline Leakey's The Broad Arrow ,' Meridian 10.1 (1991) 81-88 [A1]
The first full-length article to analyse the bibliographical history of Caroline Leakey's novel, The Broad Arrow . It has been starred as ‘excellent' by the moderators of AUSTLIT database and invited for inclusion on the Australian Literature Gateway.

9.‘Caroline Leakey, Oliné Keese and Bio/discourse,' Australian Feminist Studies 20 (Summer 1994) 53-76 [A1]
This article is a thorough-going critique of traditional feminist approaches to biography and textual criticism. It was published in the leading feminist journal in Australia.

10. 'Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship,' a/bAuto/Biography Studies (US) Special Issue: Feminist Biography 8.2 (Fall 1993) 198-216 [A1]
This article appears in the leading US journal of biographical studies and draws on my long-standing work on Caroline Leakey which has been supported by ARC and university funding from La Trobe University and UTas.

Forthcoming Publications

‘Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe,' Literature Compass < www.literature-compass.com > [A1]

Rev. of Joel Rosenthal, Telling Tales. Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003) for Parergon [D3]

Rev. of David Wallace, Premodern Places, Calais to Surinam, Geoffrey Chaucer to Aphra Behn (Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2005) for Parergon [D3]

Caroline Leakey [Oliné Keese], The Broad Arrow; Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer , ed and introduction; notes by Jenna Mead and Peter Pierce (Hobart: Montpelier Press) [B]

‘Amanda Lohrey,' Dictionary of Literary Biography. Australian Literature 1975-2000, ed. Selina Samuels (Detroit, Michigan, USA: Gale Research Co) [C1]