A/Prof Russell McDougall
Associate 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 is particularly interested in post-colonial subjectivities, the problematic of settler/invader histories and how it affects the writing of post-colonial biography. This develops out of longstanding research interests in comparative Australian/Canadian literatures, West African and Caribbean literatures (in English) - on all of which he has published widely - as well as in post-colonial theory and Aboriginal literature. His current research projects focus on the relationship between anthropology and travel writing, and on literary studies of Sudan.
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.