A/Prof Michael Sharkey

Associate Professor, School of Arts
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 |
Affiliations
Member: Australian & New Zealand American Studies Association, Australian Byron Society, Australian Society of Authors, Chair of New England Writers' Centre
Areas of Teaching
- American Literature
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Travel Writing
- Elegy and Romance
- English Composition
Research interests
- Poetry and poetics
- Australian literary journalism
- Literary biography
Publications
Sharkey, M., 2009, ‘Why Men Leave Home: The flight of the suburban male in some popular Australian fiction 1910-1950’, Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour, ed. Fran de Groen and Peter Kirkpatrick, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. pp. 110-123.,
Sharkey, M., Belmont, W., 2009, The Easy Writer: Formal English for Academic Purposes, , Sydney, Pearson Education,
Sharkey, M. , 2009, ‘How Do Poems Sound?’, Blue Dog: Australian Poetry: Journal of the Australian Poetry Centre, Vol. 8, No. 15, pp. 16-23,
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., 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, Poems 2001, , Armidale, Kardoorair,
Sharkey, M., 1994, Look, He Said: Poems 1994, , 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. (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., 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., , 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
Sharkey, M, , The Poetry Archive website (Go to Authors A-Z), , http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
