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Dr Felicity Plunkett
Senior Lecturer, Communication and Theatre, School of English
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (1989) and a PhD (1995)
Contact
| Email: | fplunket@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG33 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2621 (or +61 2 6773 2621 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Felicity has a BA (Hons) (1989) and a PhD (1995), both from the University of Sydney. Her PhD, 'Vociferous Self-Effacement: Paradoxical Power in the Writing of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jolley' examined power and empowerment in the work of these writers, and involved extensive archival research into Plath's work at libraries in the U.S.
Felicity has taught at the University of New England since 1997. Prior to this she lectured for a year at the University of Tasmania (1996) and a year at the University of Sydney (1995). She has also lectured and tutored part time at the University of Newcastle (1994), the University of Western Sydney (1993), and the University of Sydney (1990-1994).
Areas of Teaching
Her teaching responsibilities currently include the coordination of the units Australian Film and The Art of Non-Fiction. She is also interested in postgraduate supervision, has supervised a large number of honours and postgraduate theses, and has presented workshops on her research into strategies to assist with the anxiety that often attends writing a doctoral thesis. In 2002 she was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Individual).
Research interests
She has a strong interest in Higher School Certificate English, and has worked in key roles working on the development and assessment of HSC English Extension 1 and 2 through the Board of Studies, NSW. She has lectured and published for HSC students and teachers on a range of topics and authors.
Felicity's research interests include poetry and poetics, Australian literature, Australian film and mourning and film. Selected publications are listed below.
Her poetry has been published in national and international journals and anthologies including Calyx: Thirty Contemporary Australian Poets (Paperbark Press, 2001), Skylines: New Writing From New England (Kardoorair press, 2000), HEAT , Southerly , The Literary Review (US), slope (US) and Salt . She has won awards including the ABC Radio National short story competition for her story 'Sleeping Like a Baby' (http://www.abc.net.au/shortstories/stories/s949626.htm). She currently has an Emerging Writer's Grant from the Australia Council.
She was Poetry Editor of Siglo from 1996-2000, and has judged numerous literary competitions, including chairing the poetry committee for the NSW Premier's Awards for Literature (1999). She has reviewed (mostly literature, some music) extensively for publications such as The Age , The Bulletin and Juice magazine.
Publications
Plunkett, F, 2004, B[l]acktracking Towards Australia, review essay on Therese Davies and Felicity Collins, Australian Film After Mabo, Australian Folklore, Vol. 19,
Plunkett, F, , Biographical essays on Bruce Beaver, Gig Ryan and Jennifer Strauss, Dictionary of Literary Biography , ed. Selina Samuels, Bruccoli Clark Layman, several volumes, pp. 2002-2005,
Plunkett, F, 2002, The Monkey's Mask and the Poetics of Excision, Unemployed at Last! Essays on Australian Literature to 2002, Festschrift for Julian Croft, ed. Shirley Walker and Ken Stewart, CALLS,
Plunkett, F, 2002, The Detective, the Poet and the Femme Fatale: Hermeneutics and Mourning in The Monkey's Mask, Metro, Vol. 131/132,
Plunkett, F, 2001, Better Sex: Or (How Far) Towards a Representation of Radical Heterosexuality: Thoughts on Better Than Sex, Metro, Vol. 127/128, No. Autumn/Winter,
Plunkett, F, 1999, '"Such a Drag Being Dead": review/article of Patricia Dobrez' Michael Dransfield's Lives, HEAT, Vol. 1, No. 13,
Plunkett, F, 1999, Lethal Larrikins: Cinematic Subversions of Mythical Masculinities in Blackrock and The Boys' Antipodes, Special Issue on Australian Film, Vol. December,
Plunkett, F, 1998, True Sex and Other Catastrophes: Sexuality, Identity and Grief in Beverley Farmer's The Seal Woman, Southerly, Vol. Spring,
Plunkett, F, 1998, Veins and Vestibularity: Michael Dransfield on the New England Highway, Land and Identity ed. Jennifer McDonell and Michael Deves, Proceedings of the 1997 Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference,
Plunkett, F, 1996, Haunting an Old House: The Posthumous Career of Michael Dransfield, , Vol. Summer,
Plunkett, F, 1994, All These Layered and Clotted Images: An Interview with Rodney Hall, Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, Vol. June,