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A/Prof Michael Sharkey

Associate Professor, School of English, Communication and Theatre

Qualifications

BA (Sydney), PhD. (Auckland)

Contact

Email: msharkey@une.edu.au
Room: E11 LG16
Phone: 02 6773 2397 (or +61 2 6773 2397 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 2623

Areas of Teaching

  • American Literature: From Puritans to the Present (ENGL 361)
  • Persuading the Public: Rhetoric in Public Affairs (ENCO 326)
  • Travel Writing component of Introduction to Writing in Genres (ECT 102)
  • Elegy and Romance modules in English Honours (ENGL 401H)


Research interests

  •  Poetry and poetics
  • Australian literary journalism
  • Literary biography


Publications

Sharkey, M., 2007, The Sweeping Plain, , Melbourne, Five Islands Press,

Sharkey, M., 2006, 'Byron's Deluge: Heaven and Earth', The Byron Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 35-48,

Sharkey, M., Belmont, W., 2005, The Easy Writer: Formal English for Academic Purposes, , Sydney, Pearson Education,

Sharkey, M., 2002, History: Selected Poems 1978-2000, , Wollongong, Five Islands Press,

Sharkey, M., 2001, 'Class of his Own: Francis Adams, Fiction and Biography', Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 104-110,

Sharkey, M., 2001, Poems 2001, , Armidale, Kardoorair,

Sharkey, M., 2000, Park, , Armidale, Kardoorair,

Sharkey, M., 1998, Libretto for Rolf Gehlhaar: Waiting for Rain: 10 Songs to Poems by Michael Sharkey, , Feedback Studio Verlag, Köln,

Sharkey, M., 1996, Waiting for Rain: More Love Poems, , Armidale, Kardoorair,

Sharkey, M., 1995, Strange Journey: Poems, , Armidale, Kardoorair,

Sharkey, M., 1994, Look, He Said: Poems 1994, , Armidale, Kardoorair,

Sharkey, M., 1991, Alive in Difficult Times: Poems 1985-1991, , Armidale, Kardoorair,

Sharkey, M., 1988, (Ed.) An Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour, , Melbourne, Oxford University Press,

Sharkey, M., 1984, The Way It Is: Selected Poems, , Toowoomba, Darling Downs Institute Press,

Sharkey, M., 2001, 'David McKee Wright as Literary Editor of the Bulletin', A History of the Book in Australia 1891-1945: A National Culture in a Colonised Market, ed. Martyn Lyons & John Arnold, University of Queensland Press, pp. 49-50,

Sharkey, M. (with Horgan, M.), 1996, 'Vision Splendid or Sandy Blight? The Lawson-Paterson Debate', The 1890s: Australian Literature and Literary Culture, ed. Ken Stewart, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. 66-94,

Sharkey, M., 1995, '"O Rare Young Man": David McKee Wright's Bulletin Debates with Jack Lindsay 1922-1925', Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, ed. Susan Lever & Catherine Pratt, ASAL and Department of English, ADFA, Canberra, pp. 1-6,

Sharkey, M., 1994, '"Dear Beppo": Recuperating Margaret Fane', Wallflower and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia 1910-1945, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. 115-132,

Sharkey, M., 1993, 'Introduction to Lennie Lower's "Here's Luck''', Lennie Lower: He Made a Nation Laugh, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, pp. v-xi,

Sharkey, M., , Austlit: The Resource for Australian Literature, , http://www.austlit.edu.au/

Sharkey, M., , Lyrikline website (Go to Authors A-Z), , http://www.lyrikline.org/index.php