Teaching Interests

Anna teaches in the fields of Australian and postcolonial literature. She has taught a wide range of units, including

• English 1A /English 1B
• Postcolonial Fictions
• Contemporary Australian Writing
• Contemporary Travel Narratives
• Topics in Australian Literary Culture
• Introduction to Australian Literature
• Writing and Style
• Literature and Colonialism
• Post-Colonial Literatures
• Twentieth-Century Australian Literature
• Language and Communication
• Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature

She is currently offering two units at the University of Tasmania:
HEA232/332 Postcolonial Fictions
HEA419 Contemporary Travel Narratives

At the University of Tasmania, Anna has been awarded a Teaching Merit Certificate (2002) and a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2004).

She has supervised dissertations and theses at Hons, MA, and PhD levels on various topics including:

• “Invasion Narratives in the Australian Imaginary” (Catriona Ross, PhD in progress)
• “Reappraising Forgotten Fictions: The Tasmanian Romances of Marie Bjelke Petersen” (Toni Sherwood, MA 2004)
• “Provincialising Postmodernism: Jameson and American Exceptionalism” (Jacob Fischer, Hons 2004)
• “Ice Dreaming: Reading Whiteness in Kim Scott’s Benang” (Kris Harman, Hons 2004 [joint supervision with Mitchell Rolls, Riawunna])
• “Writ(h)ing Out of Place: The Reel versus the Real in The Satanic Verses and White Teeth” (Solastri Suyot, Hons 2003)
• “Writing the Nation: Representing Asian-Australian Identities” (Catriona Ross, Hons 2002)
• “Contested Terrains: Re-Writing Suburbia and Nation in Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs and Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework” (Emily Bullock, Hons 2001) [See Emily’s article "Re-Writing Suburbia" in M/C]
• “Portrait of an Aboriginal Artist: The Framing of Aboriginality in Sally Morgan’s My Place” (Amber Meredith, Hons 2000)

She is available to supervise in the following areas:

• Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction and Non-fiction
• Travel Writing
• Australian Fiction and Non-fiction
• Autobiography