A/Prof Michael Sharkey
Associate Professor, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA (Sydney), PhD (Auckland), Member: Australian & New Zealand American Studies Association, Australian Byron Society, Australian Society of Authors, Chair of New England Writers' Centre
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, '"But Who Considers Woman Day by Day?" Australian Women Poets and World War I', Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 63-78,
Sharkey, M., 2007, 'Starting from Melbourne: The Coherence of Chris Wallace-Crabbe', JASAL, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 104-119,
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., 2003, 'Parody and Co', Practical Poetics, ed. Ron Pretty, Wollongong: Five Islands Press, pp. 90-105,
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