Associate Prof. Joan Kirkby
Senior Research Fellow Women’s Studies
BA/MA Boise State University; University of Oregon Eugene 1960-1965 (English);
PHD Macquarie University 1969 (English)
Tel: 9850 7943
Fax: 9850 6893
Email:jkirkby@scmp.mq.edu.au
Literature and psychoanalytic theory (Member of Executive Board of Literature and Psychoanalysis Association which co hosts an annual conference at Macquarie with the Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis; visiting lecturer in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Macquarie University).
Emily Dickinson and nineteenth century philosophy (Member of Editorial Board of The Emily Dickinson Journal published by John Hopkins University Press)
Feminist theory and textual practice; literature as social practice.
Reading U.S. Culture
American gothic: from Emily Dickinson to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Current Projects
Theories of Mourning from Freud to Butler
Emily Dickinson and Evolutionary Theology.
Emily Dickinson's debate with the nineteenth century philosophical tradition , an ARC Large Grant project which examines Dickinson's writing in the context of nineteenth century periodical literature.*
Neoconservative Rhetoric and the American Imaginary
Publications
Books:
The American Model: Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry . Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1982.
Emily Dickinson . London: Macmillan, 1991.
Emily Dickinson . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Gender Studies: Tools and Debates . Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropolous and Joan Kirkby. London: Palgrave, 2003.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
“Shadows of the Invisible World: Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Spiritualist Sciences”, Frankenstein’s Science, edited by Jane Goodall and Christa Knellwolf. London Ashgate. (forthcoming 2007)
“Reading Neocon Rhetoric: Walt Whitman and the War on Terror”, War/Terror: Challenging the Paradigm edited by Deborah Staines. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming 2007)
"' A Crescent still abides': Emily Dickinson and the Work of Mourning". Wider than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson. ed. by Cynthia Mackenzie and Barbara Dana. ( Kent State University Press, 2007)
“Remembrance of the Future”: Derrida on Mourning, Social Semiotics, Vol. 16, No. 3 (September 2006), pp. 461-473.
“Nimble Believing: Emily Dickinson and Religious Belief”, Radio National Feature program, October, 2003. Features Joan Kirkby, Roger Lundin, Thomas Moore, Gregory Orr. www.abc.net.au/encounter/stories/2003/964520.htm#
“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”: Emily Dickinson, Religion and Nineteenth Century Science, The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, literature and the Arts Conference 2002, ed. By Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity Sydney: University of Sydney RLA Press, 2004.
"Australian Grunge Fiction", AmericaniZation and Australia, ed. by Philip and Roger Bell (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1998), pp. 228-245.
"Julia Kristeva: A Politics of the Inner Life", After the Revolution: On Kristeva, ed by John Lechte and Mary Zournazi (Sydney, ArtSpace, 1998), p. 109-127.
"Julia Kristeva's Celebration of the Inner Life: The Imaginary Father and the Elaboration of Psychic Space", A Grain of Eternity, ed. by Michael Griffiths and Jim Tulip (Sydney: Berget, 1998), pp. 115-122..
"The Politics of Self Hatred: The Fiction of David Ireland", The Roots of Aggression: Collected Papers Number 2, The Literature and Psychiatry Conference, ed. by Dr. Craig Powell (1998), pp. 47-56..
"The Pursuit of Oblivion: In Flight from Suburbia", Writing the Everyday: Australian Literature and the Limits of Suburbia edited by Andrew McCann (a special issue of Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1998), pp. 1-19. .
Essays on "The Atlantic Monthly", 'Books and Reading', 'Crisis', 'The Hampshire and Franklin Express', 'Harper's New Monthly Magazine', 'Scribner's Monthly', entries in The Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia ed. by Jane Donahue Eberwein (New York: Greenwood Press, 1998).
"The Lure of Abjection: A Colonial Legacy?", An Australian Mind: Collected Papers of The Literature and Psychiatry Conference 1993,ed. by Craig Powell (Sydney: Mathew J.C. Powell, 1996), pp. 21-35.
"Reading Dickinson Reading." The Emily Dickinson Journal,Vol. V, No. 2 (1996), pp.
"Abject Discourse and the Imperial Gaze in Rosa Cappiello's Oh Lucky Country." A Talented Digger, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek, Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 221-226.
"The Lure of Abjection: 'The Vertigris of Glory' in The Astley's The Acolyte." Kunapipi, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (1994), pp. 27-45.
"'Big My Secret/ But It's Bandaged': Emily Dickinson and Jane Campion's The Piano." Emily Dickinson International Newsletter, Vol.3, No. 1 (1994), pp. 4-6.
"The Lure of Abjection: 'The Vertigris of Glory' in The Astley's The Acolyte." Into the Nineties: Post-colonial Women's Writing, ed. by Anna Rutherford, Lars Jensen and Shirley Chew (Australia and Denmark: Dangaroo, 1994), pp. 27-45.
"The Lure of Abjection: Kristeva's Borderliner and Australian Masculinity in Hal Porter, A.D. Hope, Patrick White." Australian Contemporary Culture and Critical Theory, ed. Patrick Fuery (Melbourne: Longman,1992), pp. 151-175.
"The Spinster and the Missing Mother in the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley." Old Maids to Radical Spinsters, ed. Laura L. Doan(Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991), pp. 235-258.
"The Joseph Complex or the Father/Daughter Bond in The Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley." ed. Delys Bird and Brenda Walker (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1991), pp. 63-82.
"Fetishising the Father: David Tacey on Patrick White." Meridian, Vol. 10, No. 1 (May, 1991), pp. 35-44.
"Whatever Happened to Charles Harpur: Egalitarianism versus Authoritarianismin Australian Culture." Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (December, 1990), pp. 67-74.
"Melville's 'Tale of Love': A Lacanian Reading of Pierre." Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (July, 1989),pp. 12-21.
"Barbara Baynton: An Australian Jocasta." Westerly, No. 4 (December, 1989), pp. 114-124.
"Finding a Voice in this 'fiercely fathered and unmothered world': The Poetry of Fay Zwicky." Poetry and Gender, ed. by DavidBrooks and Brenda Walker (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989), pp. 175-195.
"The Call of the Mother in the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley."SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, ed. William McGaw, No. 26 (April, 1988), pp.46-48.
The Nights Belong to the Novelist: Elizabeth Jolley, Australian Writer ,a film by Christina Wilcox. Script: Joan Kirkby and Christina Wilcox; Research and Interviews: Joan Kirkby. This film co won the prize for best Australian film at the Melbourne Film Festival (June, 1987) and the script was nominated for the Greater Union Awards at the Sydney Film Festival (June, 1987)
"What Prisoners We Are: Sexuality and System in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance. " Australasian Journal of American Studies,Vol. 4, No. 1 (1986), pp. 12-27.
"Is There Life After Art: The Metaphysics of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 4,No. 1 (1986), pp. 90-109.
"Daisy Miller Down Under: The Old World/New World Paradigm in the Fiction of Barbara Hanrahan." Kunapipi, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1986),pp. 10-27.
"The American Prospero." Southern Review, Vol. 18,No. 1 (March, 1985), pp. 90-109.
"The Nights Belong to Elizabeth Jolley: Modernism and the Sappho-Erotic Imagination of Miss Peabody's Inheritance." Meanjin, Vol. 43,No. 4 (December, 1984), pp. 484-493.
"A Woman is Watching Things: The Work of Anna Couani." Meanjin,Vol. 42, No. 4 (December, 1983), pp. 491-499.
"The Memphis Faun." Elvis: Images and Fancies, ed. Jac Tharpe (London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1983), pp. 19-37.
"The Memphis Faun." The Southern Quarterly", Vol.XVIII, No. 1 (Fall, 1979), pp. 11-26.
"Spengler and Apocalyptic Typology in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night." Southern Review, Vol. XII, No. 3 (November,1979), pp. 246-262.
"Old Orders, New Lands: The Earth Spirit in Picnic at Hanging Rock." Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (May,1978), pp. 255-268.
*Relevant Papers (ARC Dickinson project)
“ Reading Dickinson Reading”, Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Innsbruck, 1996
“Emily Dickinson’s ‘ Varieties of Religious Experience’”, RLA Conference, 1998. www.capacite.org
“’The Thief Ingredient’: Emily Dickinson’s Darwin”, Darwin Undisciplined, University of Western Sydney and Science House, 1999
“Spectral Illusions: Ghosts, Dreams and the Concept of Mind”, Australasian Continental Philosophy Conference, 2000
“(Em)bedding Emily Dickinson: The Pre-texts/Inter-texts of Dickinson’s Bride Poems:, WS, Macquarie 2000
“Necrophilia in the Work of Dickinson and Poe”, Literature and Psychology, 2001
“ Dickinson’s Philosophy Books”, 2001 (Emily Dickinson and American Philosophy)
“Emily Dickinson, Asa Gray and New England Evolutionary Philosophy”, Wesley College, 2002
“Emily Dickinson and The Faces of God”, Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference Keynote, 2002
“’Nature’s electric Adjunct’: The Search for the Soul and the Sciences of Immortality”, Frankenstein’s Science symposium, Humanities Research Centre, march 2003.
“’We thought Darwin had Thrown the Redeemer Away’: Emily Dickinson and the 19thCentury Darwin Wars’, Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Hilo, Hawaii, 2004
“Emily Dickinson and the Concept of God”, 2007
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