Dr Suzie Gibson
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA Honours (First Class), University of Sydney; PhD, University of Queensland
Contact
| Email: | sgibson5@une.edu.au |
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 New England, The University of Queensland, The University of Technology (Sydney), The University of Western Sydney, and Macquarie University.
Research interests
Ethics, Philosophy, Henry James, Jacques Derrida, J.M. Coetzee, James Bond, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, 21st Literature, Asylum-Seekers and Australia’s Border Protection Policies.
Publications
“Derrida and the Refugee; or, Not-Being-at-Home” in Venturing Derrida, Ed. Sarah Dillon and Sarah Jackson, Foreword by Nicholas Royle and Afterword by Geoffrey Bennigton, St Andrews University, Scotland. Forthcoming 2012.
“The Quest for Love and Identity in Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life,” Australian Folklore, Armidale NSW: University of New England, No 25, 2010.
“The Gift of Faith: Rethinking an Ethics of Sacrifice and Decision in Fear and Trembling and The Gift of Death,” Philosophy Today, Chicago, Illinois: DePaul University, Volume 53, Number 2, Summer 2009, 126-135.
“Being Irresponsible in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,” Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies, ed. D. Jernigan, N. Murphy, B. Quigley, T. Wagner, Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2009, 285-303.
“Toward and Ethics of Sensation in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,” Literature and Sensation, ed. Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan and Stephen McLaren, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009, 184-193.
Review of Jeff Apter’s Fortunate Son: The Unlikely Rise of Keith Urban, Australian Book Review, Feb 2009.
Review of Henry Jenkins’s The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, Journal of Sociology, September 2008, Volume 44, No. 3, Sage, 2008.
“Bond and Phenomenology: Shaken not Stirred,” James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever, ed. Jacob M. Held and James B. South, Chicago: Open Court, 2006, 49-62.
“The Work, The Neutral and The Unnamable,” After Beckett/D’aprés Beckett, Edited by/Edité par Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clément, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourdh’ui 14, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2004, 293-305.
“The Terror of Representation: The Difficulty of Filming Henry James,” Metro, No. 117, 1998, 47-52.
Conference Papers
2012: “Henry James’s Vocabulary,” Victorian Vocabularies Conference, Australian Victorian Studies Association, Griffith University Brisbane, 11th-14th April, 2012.
2011: “Translation, Mediation, and Difficulty in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw,” Literature and Translation Conference, Melbourne, 11-12 July.
2009: “Thinking Embodiment in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello,” Minding Animals Conference, Civic Precinct, Newcastle, 13-18 July.
2007: “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 organized by the Australasion Association for Literature, Sydney, 12-13 July.
2006: “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.
2005: “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.
2004: “The Politics of Female Friendship in Henry James’s Late Novels,” Politics of Friendship conference organized by Monash University and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, 9-10 September.
2003: “The Work, the Neutral and The Unnamable,” After Beckett/d’après Beckett, organized by The University of Western Sydney. 6-9 January.
Professional Activity
2011: Guest Lecture at the University of Queensland on Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Novel Fun Home.
2010: Invited Guest Speaker at Griffith University’s Centre for Cultural research Seminar Series. Paper title: “Towards an Ethics of Sensation in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.
2009: External assessor for the Australian Centre for Language’s English Foreign Student’s program. This involved checking the standards of assessments designed by language instructors preparing overseas students for university study in Australia.
2008: Member of the School of Arts Teaching and Learning Committee.
2007: Guest Speaker at St Albert’s College welcoming first year Communication Studies, English and Theatre students to UNE.
2006: Adjudicated a number of intercollegiate debates at the University of New England’s Rob College
2006: Judged the Sir Frank Kitto intercollegiate Public Speaking Cultural Competition at the University of New England’s St. Albert’s College.
2005-2004: Communication Studies Discipline Convenor.
2005: Judged the Sir Frank Kitto intercollegiate Public Speaking Cultural Competition at the University of New England’s Earle Page College.
2004: Guest Speaker for the Higher School Certificate Mentoring Program held at the University of New England.
2003: Invited Guest Speaker at Trinity Grammar College Sydney where I delivered to Extension 1 English HSC Students a lecture on Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady.
2002: Invited Guest Speaker for the CAPPE Research Group (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics) Paper: “Ethics and Difficulty in the Late Novels of Henry James” Public Lecture Organised by Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Sydney.
1998-2002 (5 years): NSW Higher School Certificate Examiner.