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Dr Sylvia Martin
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Communication and Theatre, School of English
Qualifications
BA Hons (UNSW) PhD (Griffith)
Contact
| Email: | sylviamartin@bigpond.com |
Sylvia is a writer, cultural historian and former actor. She also works as a reviewer, editor and manuscript assessor. Her research interests include feminist auto/biography, Australian women's writing, and theories of sexuality. Her book, Passionate Friends, based on her doctoral research, was short-listed for the 2002 ISAA (Independent Scholars' Association of Australia) Book Prize.
She is the current holder of the C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship at the State Library of New South Wales, researching and writing the biography of Ida Leeson, Mitchell Librarian 1932-1946.
Publications
Martin, S., 2001, Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin, , London, Onlywomen Press,
Martin, S., 1994, Past All I Know is All I Feel": Mary Fullerton's Poetry and Lesbian Desire, in Kay Ferres, ed. Coastscripts: Gender Representations in the Arts, AIWRAP: Griffith University, pp. 15-26,
Martin, S., 1993, Mollie Skinner, Quaker Spinster and the Witch of Wellaway, in Kay Ferres, ed. The Time to Write: Australian Women Writers 1890-1930, Ringwood: Penguin, pp. 200-217,
Reid, J., Martin, S., 2003, Speak softly, be tactful and assist cheerfully, Women Beginning Teaching in 1930s' NSW', Change, Vol. May,
Martin, S., 2002, Re-Membering My Mother's Body, Australian Women's Book Review, Vol. 14, No. 2,
Martin, S., 2001, Housing Desire: A Personal Response to Bachelard, Meanjin, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 79-87,
Martin, S., 1998, Bcoming-Violet: Mary Fullerton's Poetry and Lesbian Desire, , Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 1997, ASAL 1998, pp. 99-104,
Martin, S., 1997, Desire in the Love Poetry of Mary Fullerton, Hecate, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 95-103,
Martin, S., 1994, These Walls of Flesh': The Problem of the Body in the Romantic Friendship/ Lesbianism Debate, Historical Reflections/Réfléxions Historiques, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-265,
Martin, S., 1993, Rethinking Passionate Friendships: the Writing of Mary Fullerton, Women's History Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 395-406,
Martin, S., 1992, Women's Secrets. Miles Franklin in London, Meanjin, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 35-44,
Martin, S., 1992, Reading Life Writing: Australian Women's Letters and Diaries, Hecate, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 126-137,
Bick, P., Martin, S., 1983, , , Sydney, Australia Council, Division of Policy and Planning,