Dr Catherine Waters
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
MA (Hons) DipEd (Macq.), PhD (Syd.)
Contact
| Email: | cwaters@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG14 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2577 (or +61 2 6773 2577 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Cathy Waters joined the Department in 1990 and her teaching has been concentrated in the areas of Romantic, Victorian and Modern Literature, feminist literary theory and Women's and Gender Studies.
Research interests
Her research interests lie in the field of Victorian Studies. She has published on Dickens and is particularly interested in nineteenth-century fiction and periodical writing. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Dickens Journals Online (see http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/djo/) and is currently working on the journalism of some of the lesser-known contributors to Dickens’s Household Words.Book Publications
Waters, C., 1997, Dickens and the Politics of the Family, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Waters, C. 2008, Commodity Culture in Dickens’s Household Words: The Social Life of Goods. The Nineteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate Press (more information).
Penny Gay, Judith Johnston and Catherine Waters. Eds. (2008) Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on fiction and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (more information).