Dr Stephen Harris
Lecturer, School of Arts
Contact
| Email: | sharris9@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG32 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2694 (or +61 2 6773 2694 overseas) |
Following a period of time teaching overseas at Victoria University, Wellington (NZ), Stephen returned to the University of New England in 2002 to teach courses in both English and Communication Studies, and to contribute to the development of new courses in the areas of literary studies and communication studies.
Whilst at Victoria University, he designed and taught courses on American Literature and Literature and Journalism; prior to this, Stephen taught at UNE in American and Australian Literature while completing his PhD in American Literature (1994-98), and in the areas of Postcolonial and Australian Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, while completing his MA in Australian Literature (1992-4).
Areas of Teaching
American Literature, Literary Studies (European Novel), Genre Studies - Non-Fiction, The Essay and Travel Writing.
Research interests
American Literature, Australian Literature, the historical novel, New Journalism, literature of the environment. He is currently working on two book-length projects, the first a collaborative study on the literary and artistic representations of water in Australia from the early colonial period to the present, and the second, a comparative study on the theme of individualism in American and Australian literature (to be completed in 2008). He is also a committed musician.
Publications
Stephen's PhD thesis is published under the title The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E.L.Doctorow: Writing the Historical Self (Peter Lang AG Publishers, Bern, July 2002).
His second book is a full-length study on the work of Gore Vidal's historical novels, entitled Gore Vidal's Historical Novels and the Shaping of the American Political Consciousness (The Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 2005).
Additonally, he has published numerous articles and book reviews in leading literary journals.