Prof Russell McDougall
Professor, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA Hons (Newcastle, NSW), MA (Adelaide), PhD (Queen's)
Contact
| Email: | rmcdouga@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG39 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2642 (or +61 2 6773 2642 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Russell McDougall has longstanding research interests in comparative Australian, Caribbean and West African literatures in English - on all of which he has published widely - as well as in post-colonial theory and Indigeneity. He is particularly interested in post-colonial subjectivities and the writing of biography; the relationship between anthropology and travel writing; stories about objects; literary geographies; and the new piracies, especially bio-piracy and geo-piracy.
Russell is part of the Posthuman Literary and Cultural Studies Group.
Affiliations
Russell was the original proposer and a member of the first Working Party to establish the Adelaide Centre for Australian Studies (A.C.A.S.), launched in March '88, and was its Acting Director in 1989 and 1990. He served for a number of years on the Executive Committee of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), and as the Director of the Centre of Australian Studies at UNE. Currently, he sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal of postcolonial writing, Kunapipi, and on the international advisory board of both Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (formerly World Literature Written in English). Russell has been a Research Associate of the Centre for Research in New Literatures in English at Flinders University (South Australia), and a Global Virtual Faculty Member of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.