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Dr Janice Shaw

Lecturer, School of Arts

Qualifications

BA(Hons), MA, PhD, GCertPTT, DipEd

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Research interests

Janice Shaw’s main research interests are in Australian literature, in particular discontinuous narrative and the short story cycle. She has also published in the areas of children’s literature, film and television studies, and popular culture, especially crime fiction. She has lectured in these areas at the University of New England and also the University of Newcastle. At present, she is writing a book chapter entitled “P.D. James’s Discontinuous Narrative: Continuing to find Suitable Jobs.”

Publications

“The Kidults of The Big Bang Theory: Will they Every Grow up and Marry a Nice Girl?” in The Big Bang Theory and Gender Politics. McFarland. Forthcoming Spring 2014.

“The Poet Dalgliesh and Kate from the Block: The Culture of P.D. James” in Class and Culture in Contemporary Crime Fiction. McFarland. Forthcoming Spring 2014.

“Detecting Puzzles and Patterns in Numb3rs: No-one Escapes Scott Free”, in Scholarly Scott: The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. Forthcoming 2013.

“Frank Moorhouse and the Angry Decade.” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. Special Edition. Forthcoming June 2013.

“Beverley Farmer’s Embrace of the Mirror.”  Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. Vol 25 Issue 2 December 2011.

‘“Reading Detective Fiction” or Writing It?: Frank Moorhouse’s Lateshows’, Clues: A Journal of Detection. Vol 29 Issue 1 2011.

'The Body of Text: Beverley Farmer’s A Body of Water.' Body, Space, Technology. Vol 09/01 Brunel University 2010.