Dr Suzie Gibson
Lecturer, School of Arts
Contact
| Email: | sgibson5@une.edu.au |
| Room: | LG29 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3386 (or +61 2 6773 3386 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Suzie Gibson’s research and teaching history is interdisciplinary. Her research knowledge and teaching interests include nineteenth and twentieth century literature, philosophy, film studies, feminism, communication theory, media theory and aesthetics.
She has taught at The University of Queensland, The University of Technology (Sydney), The University of Western Sydney, and Macquarie University.
Areas of Teaching
Suzie is currently teaching courses in Communications and areas related to that field.
Research interests
Her research examines the interrelationship between ethics, literature and philosophy. She is currently working on a book project that examines the relationship between ethics and secrecy in philosophy and literature. In this endeavour, the late novels of Henry James are juxtaposed against a number of philosophical writings, including the works of Jacques Derrida.
Other research activities undertaken continue her work in the area of literary studies and critical theory. A series of forthcoming publications on the novels of J.M.Coetzee are planned for 2008 and these explore the relationship between ethics, literature and philosophy.
Publications
Refereed Publications:
“The Gift of Faith: Rethinking and Ethics of Sacrifice and Decision in Fear and Trembling and The Gift of Death.” Philosophy Today, Issue 2, Volume 53. (Forthcoming 2009)
“Being Irresponsible in J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace,” Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies, eds. D. Jernigan, N. Murphy; B. Quigley; T. Wagner, Cambria Press. (Forthcoming 2008)
“Toward and Ethics of Sensation in J.M. Coetzee's Digrace,” Literature and Sensation, ed. Helen Groth, Stephen McLaren, Paul Sheehan and Anthony Uhlmann, Cambridge Scholars Press, (Forthcoming 2008)
Book Review of Henry Jenkins's The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, Journal of Sociology, September, Volume 44, No. 3, Sage, 2008.
“Bond and Phenomenology: Shaken, Not Stirred,” Questions are Forever: James Bond and Philosophy, Open Court, 2006, pp. 49-62.
“The Work, The Neutral and The Unnamable,” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui: After Beckett/D'apres Beckett, Rodopi, No. 14, 2004, pp. 293-305.
“The Terror of Representation: The Difficulty of Filming the Novels of Henry James,” Metro No. 117, 1999, pp. 47-50.
International and Refereed Conference Papers:
“Love, Mourning and its Hospitalities in Henry James's The Wings of the Dove,” Mourning and its Hospitalities | (after...), A Three-Day International Conference on Literature, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 18-20 July 2007.
“Ethics and Sensation in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace,” Literature and Sensation, Conference organised by the Australasion Association for Literature, Sydney, 12-13 July 2007.
“Ethics, Difficulty and Irresponsibility in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace,” Inaugural English Literature Conference: Irresponsibility, Division of English, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, 28-30 September 2006.
“James's Venice: The Great Waiting-Room of Europe,” Tracing Henry James, An International Conference of the Henry James Society, Venice International University, 12-15 July 2005.
“The Politics of Female Friendship in Henry James's Late Novels,” Politics of Friendship, Conference Organised by Monash University and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London, 9-10 September 2004.
“The Work, the Neutral and The Unnamable,” After Beckett/d'aprs Beckett, Organised by The University of Western Sydney. 6-9 January 2003.