Dr Stephen Harris
Lecturer, School of Arts
Contact
| Email: | sharris9@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG32 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2964 (or +61 2 6773 2964 overseas) |
Stephen Harris lectures in the School of Arts, University of New England (NSW, Australia), teaching in the areas of literary studies (specialising in American Literature and Australian Literature) and non-fiction studies. He has higher degrees in Australian Literature and American Literature and among his publications are the books The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E.L.Doctorow: Writing the Historical Self (2002) and Gore Vidal's Historical Novels and the Shaping of American Political Consciousness (2005). He is currently completing a comparative study entitled New Worlds and the Borders of Self: Individualism, America and the Making of Australia and, as an active member of the cross-disciplinary research group WraIN (UNE), he is working in the area of ecocritical studies, publishing research focussing on the relationship between literature and the environment.
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.
Dr Stephen Harris is a member of the Posthuman Literary and Cultural Studies Research Group
Publications
Harris, S 2005, Gore Vidal's Historical Novels and the Shaping of the American Political Consciousness, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York.
Harris, S 2002, The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E.L.Doctorow: Writing the Historical Self, Peter Lang AG Publishers, Bern.
Additonally, he has published numerous articles and book reviews in leading literary journals.