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Associate Professor Anne Brewster
Honorary Associate Professor

Associate Professor Anne Brewster

BA Adel, PhD Flinders

Arts,Design & Architecture
School of the Arts and Media
Phone
+61 2 9385 2302
E-mail
a.brewster@unsw.edu.au
Location
215, Level 2 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2019
    2019, Rethinking the Victim Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315107387
    Books | 2016
    2016, Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories [reprint], Sydney University Press, Sydney
    Books | 2015
    Brewster A, 2015, Giving This Country a Memory, 1st, Cambria Press, Amherst, New York
    Books | 1996
    1996, Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography, Sydney University Press, Sydney
    Books | 1995
    1995, Literary formations: Post-colonialism, nationalism, globalism, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
    Books | 1988
    1988, Towards a Semiotic of Post-colonial Discourse: University Writing in Singapore and Malaysia 1949-1965, Heinemann Asia, Singapore
    Books | 1987
    1987, Notes on Catherine Lim's Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore, with Kirpal Singh, Heinemann Asia, Singapore
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, 'Magic Realism and Political Violence: Shokoofeh Azar’s_The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree', in Cahill M; Nair M; Yang A (ed.), Resilience: A Celebration of Poetry Fiction and Essays from Mascara Literary Review, Ultimo Press, Sydney NSW, pp. 30 - 47, https://www.ultimopress.com.au/resilience
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature and Maori and Pacific Island Literatures', in Devy GN; Davis GV (ed.), Gender and Rights, Routledge, Oxon UK, pp. 177 - 209, https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Rights/Devy-Davis/p/book/9780367263225
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, 'Laughter and the Indigenous trickster: Aesthetics of Marie Munkara's Every Secret Thing', in Collett A; Dale L (ed.), Postcolonial Past and Present, Brill Rodophi, Boston, pp. 103 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004376540_007
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, 'That Deadman Dance: The Brokerage of Decolonising Cosmopolitanism', in Morrissey P; Lowe R; Campbell M (ed.), The Critical Companion to Kim Scott: Readers, Language, Interpretation, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, WA, pp. 109 - 122, https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/kim-scott-readers-language-interpretation
    Book Chapters | 2018
    2018, 'Australian Aboriginal Women's Protest Poetry: Jeanine Leane', in Srinivasan MP (ed.), Multiculturalism and the Social Fabric in Australia, America and India, Emerald Publishers, Chennai, India, pp. 319 - 329, http://www.emeraldpublishers.com/?s=MULTICULTURALISM
    Book Chapters | 2018
    2018, 'Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation', in McCooey D; Takolander M (ed.), The Limits of Life Writing, Routledge, London, pp. 313 - 325
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Brewster A, 2017, 'Australian Aboriginal Women's Protest Poetry', in Das D; Dasgpupta S (ed.), Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing, edn. 1, Springer (Palgrave Macmillan), Cham, Switzerland, pp. 245 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50400-1_14
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Brewster A, 2014, ''Our Body is the First Sovereignty': Anne Brewster interviews Romaine Moreton', in Bonnevin J; Waterman D; Ryan-Fazilleau S (ed.), Aboriginal Australians and Other 'Others', edn. 1, Les Indes Savantes, Paris, pp. 25 - 38, http://www.lesindessavantes.com/db/record.php?id=394
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Brewster A, 2014, 'Gallows humour and Stereotyping in Nyungar Writer Alf Taylor's Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading', in Neumeier B; Schaffer K (ed.), Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia, edn. 1st, Brill, pp. 233 - 253, http://www.brill.com/products/book/decolonizing-landscape
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, '"Can You Anchor a Shimmering Nation State via Regional Indigenous Roots?" Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That Deadman Dance [reprint]', in Neale T; McKinnon C; Vincent E (ed.), History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, UTS ePress, Sydney, pp. 502 - 522, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/978-0-9872369-1-3.ac
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, 'Editorial introduction', in Lykke N (ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, Routledge, New York, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315818566
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, 'Interview with Stanislaw Lem', in Broderick D; Ikin V (ed.), Fantastika at the edge of reality: Yet more best of 'Science fiction', Wildside Press, Rockville, MR, pp. 12 - 14
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, 'Making Language Your Own: Brainstorming, Heteroglossia and Poetry', in Lykke N (ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, Routledge, New York, pp. 180 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315818566
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, 'Whiteness and Affect: The Embodied Ethics of Relationally', in Lykke N (ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, Routledge, New York, pp. 62 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315818566
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, 'Indigenous Writing in Canada, Australia and New Zealand', in Quayson A (ed.), The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 484 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9781107007017.017
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'Beachcombing', in Bradstock M (ed.), Antipodes: Poetic Responses, Phoenix Education, Putney, N.S.W., pp. 105 - 107
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Brewster A, 2010, 'A Critique of Bharati Mukherjee’s Neo-Nationalism', in Mandal S (ed.), Bharati Mukherjee : critical perspectives, edn. 1st ed., Pencraft Books, New Delhi, pp. 25 - 38
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Brewster A, 2010, 'Critical Whiteness Studies and Australian Indigenous Literature', in Carter D; Guanglin W (ed.), Modern Australian Criticism and Theory, edn. 1st, China Ocean University Press, Qingdao, pp. 190 - 205
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Brewster A, 2010, 'The Freedom to Discompose: The Poetry of Kamala Das [reprint]', in Kohli D (ed.), Kamala Das: Critical Perspectives, edn. Revised, Pencraft Books International, New Delhi, pp. 85 - 94
    Book Chapters | 2010
    2010, '‘The Radical Poetics of the Gendered Urban Quotidian: Reading Anna Couani’s Literary Experimentalism of the 1970s and 1980s’', in Mycak S; Sarwal A (ed.), Australian made : a multicultural reader, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 46 - 70, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000313551900004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Brewster A, 2009, ''Teaching the Tracker in Germany: a Journal of Whiteness'', in Baird B; Riggs DW (ed.), The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations and Knowledges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 228 - 318
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Brewster AR, 2009, ''"The Traveller's Dream": Nation and Diaspora in the Work of Boey Kim Cheng', in Thumboo E; Sui GL (ed.), Sharing Borders, edn. Original, National Library Board, Singapore, pp. 124 - 136
    Book Chapters | 2009
    2009, 'Beachcombing: A Fossicker's Guide to Whiteness and Indigenous Sovereignty', in Smith H; Dean RT (ed.), Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press, Edingburgh, pp. 126 - 152
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Brewster A, 2006, 'Anna Couani', in Samuels S (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 325: Australian writers, 1975 - 2000, edn. Original, Thomson Gale, Detroit, pp. 53 - 58
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Brewster A, 2006, 'Remembering and Forgetting Ourselves: Reading Indigenous Life Narrative', in Maver I (ed.), Critics and Writers, Revisioning Post-Colonial Studies, edn. 1st, Lexington Books, Oxford, pp. 85 - 105
    Book Chapters | 2004
    2004, 'Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal (Kate Walker)', in Samuels S (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1950-1975, edn. Original, Thomson Gale, New York, pp. 249 - 256
    Book Chapters | 2003
    2003, 'Reading Australian Indigenous Life Narratives and Whiteness: Relationality and the Ethical Turn', in Gifford J; Zezulka-Mailloux G (ed.), Culture + the State, Volume 2: Disability Studies and Indigenous Studies, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 75 - 85
    Book Chapters | 2000
    2000, 'Introduction', in The Space of City Trees, Selected Poems of Arthur Yap, Skoob Books, London, pp. 11 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199578610.013.0001
    Book Chapters | 2000
    2000, 'Introduction', in Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, Perth, pp. 9 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-84569-244-5.50029-8
    Book Chapters | 2000
    2000, 'Life stories', in Kleinert S; Neale M (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 627 - 628
    Book Chapters | 2000
    2000, 'Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson)', in Kleinert S; Neale M (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 650 - 650
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Brewster A, 1999, 'The extravagance of our need: Lyrical poetry and community in the work of Lee Tzu Pheng', in Interlogue, edn. Original, Ethos Books, Singapore, pp. 69 - 76
    Book Chapters | 1998
    1998, 'Sucking on Remembrance: memoirs of the Vampire and other histories of the body', in Kerr H; Nettelbeck A (ed.), The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism, UWA Press, Perth, pp. 209 - 216
    Book Chapters | 1998
    1998, 'The Perplexity of Living: Adolescence and Nationalism in Colin Cheong's The Stolen Child', in Singh K (ed.), Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Ethos Books, Singapore, pp. 83 - 92
    Book Chapters | 1996
    1996, 'Fictocritical sequence, "hauntings: a road poem (stories of forgetting and unknowing)"', in Turcotte G (ed.), Masks, Tapestries, Journeys, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, pp. 133 - 141
    Book Chapters | 1996
    1996, 'Taking Your Story to Town: Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks and the Ambivalence of Aboriginal Women's Autobiographical Narratives', in Rowley H; Ommundsen W (ed.), From a Distance, Deakin University Press, Geelong, pp. 93 - 102
    Book Chapters | 1995
    1995, 'Kirpal Singh', in Benson E; Conolly LW; Killam GD (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge, New York, pp. 1479 - 1480
    Book Chapters | 1995
    1995, 'Lee Tzu Pheng', in Benson E; Conolly LW; Killam GD (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge, New York, pp. 835 - 836
    Book Chapters | 1995
    1995, 'Shirley Lim', in Benson E; Conolly LW; Killam GD (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge, New York, pp. 884 - 885
    Book Chapters | 1994
    1994, 'Oodgeroo: Orator, Poet, Storyteller', in Shoemaker A; Hergenhan L (ed.), Oodgeroo: A Tribute, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. 92 - 104
    Book Chapters | 1993
    1993, 'Linguistic Boundaries', in The Return [by K.S. Maniam], Skoob Books, London, pp. 174 - 174
    Book Chapters | 1986
    1986, 'An analysis of Arthur Yap's poem “Dramatis Personae"', in Singh K (ed.), Critical Engagements. Singapore Poems in Focus, Heinemann, Singapore, pp. 31 - 36
    Book Chapters | 1986
    1986, 'The Sense of Place in Singapore and Malaysian Poetry in English, with special reference to Wong Phui Nam and Arthur Yap', in Nightingale P (ed.), A Sense of Place, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 132 - 142
    Book Chapters | 1984
    1984, 'An Introduction to Contemporary Philippines Poetry in English', in Sharrad P (ed.), Poetry of the Pacific, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Adelaide, pp. 71 - 80
    Book Chapters | 1980
    1980, 'Science Fiction and Women Writers', in Brewster A; Brunato M; Gordon N (ed.), Broadview: An anthology of Country and City Women Writers, South Australia. Department for the Arts, Adelaide, pp. 66 - 73
  • Edited Books | 2000
    Brewster A; O'Neill A; van der Berg R, (eds.), 2000, Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, Perth
    Edited Books | 1990
    Brewster A; Guess J, (ed.), 1990, The Inner courtyard: A South Australian anthology of love poetry, Wakefield Press, Adelaide
    Edited Books | 1982
    Brewster A; Johnson R, (ed.), 1982, The Friendly Street Reader No. 6, Friendly Street Poets, Adelaide: Friendly Street
    Edited Books | 1980
    Brewster A; Brunato M; Gordon N, (eds.), 1980, An Anthology of Country and City Women Writers, Govt. Printers, Adelaide
  • Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Indigenous Futurity: Two Apocalypses in Claire G Coleman’s The Old Lie’', Journal of the European Association of Studies of Australia, 12, http://www.australianstudies.eu/?cat=52
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, '‘It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’: Gendered Violence in Emily Maguire’s Recent Novels', Australian Literary Studies, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.7922c6121b
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, ''Precarity, Violence and the Intersection of Race, Class and Gender in Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident'.', Australian Humanities Review, 64, pp. 102 - 120, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AHR64_07_IntroBrewsterMacDonaldKossew.pdf
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Introduction', Textus: English studies in Italy, 32, pp. 7 - 16, http://www.anglisti.it/publications/textus-english-studies-in-italy/
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Introduction: Gender and Violence in Cultural Texts of the Global South', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, pp. 87 - 101, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000469076600007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'NADOC and the National Aborigines Day in Sydney, 1957–67', Aboriginal History Journal, 42, pp. 3 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AH.42.2018.01
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation', Life Writing, 14, pp. 313 - 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2017.1328298
    Journal articles | 2016
    Brewster A, 2016, 'Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert', Australian Literary Studies, 31, pp. 1 - 15, https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/issues/volume-31-no-2
    Journal articles | 2014
    Brewster A, 2014, 'Negotiations of Violence and Anger in Aboriginal Novelist Melissa Lucashenko's Hard Yards', Contemporary Women's Writing, 8, pp. 339 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpu005
    Journal articles | 2011
    Brewster A, 2011, 'Can you anchor a shimmering nation state via regional indigenous roots? Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That Deadman Dance', Cultural Studies Review, 18, pp. 4 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v18i1.2322
    Journal articles | 2011
    Brewster A, 2011, 'Whiteness and Indigenous Sovereignty in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance', Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia, 2, pp. 60 - 71, http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/jeasaiindexvol2no2.html
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Indigenous Sovereignty and the Crisis of Whiteness in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria', Australian Literary Studies, 25, pp. 85 - 100
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Introduction [Special Issue: On Whiteness: Current Debates in Australian Studies]', Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, 2, http://www.australianstudies.eu/?p=668
    Journal articles | 2009
    Brewster A, 2009, 'Travelogue', Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge, 20, http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume20/brewster
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, '‘Indigenous sovereignty in the poetry of Romaine Moreton’ [in Manifesting Feminisms - Special Issue edited by Margaret Henderson and Anne Vickery]', Australian Literary Studies, 24, pp. 108 - 120
    Journal articles | 2008
    Brewster A, 2008, 'An Interview with Arthur Yap', Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2, pp. 97 - 108, http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/Archive/index.htm
    Journal articles | 2008
    Brewster A, 2008, 'Engaging the Public Intimacy of Whiteness: The Indigenous Protest Poetry of Romaine Moreton', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), pp. 56 - 76, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/issue/view/51/showToc
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, 'Humour and the defamilarization of whiteness in the short fiction of Australian indigenous writer Alf Taylor', Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 44, pp. 427 - 438, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449850802410564
    Journal articles | 2007
    Brewster A, 2007, '`That child is my hero`: an interview with Alf Taylor', Aboriginal History, 31, pp. 165 - 177
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Brokering cross-racial feminism: reading indigenous Australian poet Lisa Bellear', Feminist Theory, 8, pp. 209 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700107078143
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Introduction [Special Issue: Approaching Whiteness]', Australian Humanities Review, 42, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2007/08/01/approaching-whiteness/
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'The Stolen Generations: Rites of Passage: Doris Pilkington interviewed by Anne Brewster', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 42, pp. 143 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989407075735
    Journal articles | 2005
    Brewster A, 2005, 'Fractured Conversations: Indigenous Literature and White Readers. A reading of the poetry of Lisa Bellear.', Altitude : An e-Journal of Emerging Humanities Work, 5, https://thealtitudejournal.wordpress.com/2005/09/03/fractured-conversations-indigenous-literature-and-white-readers/
    Journal articles | 2005
    Brewster A, 2005, 'Interview with Anna Couani', Hecate, 31, pp. 31 - 42
    Journal articles | 2005
    Brewster A, 2005, 'Remembering Whiteness: Reading Indigenous Life Narrative', Borderlands e-journal, 4, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol4no1_2005/brewster_remembering.htm
    Journal articles | 2005
    Brewster A, 2005, 'The Poetics of Memory', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19, pp. 397 - 402
    Journal articles | 2005
    Brewster A, 2005, 'Writing Whiteness: The personal turn', Australian Humanities Review, 35, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2005/06/01/writing-whiteness-the-personal-turn/
    Journal articles | 2005
    2005, 'We Four: Fictocriticism Again', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19, pp. 393 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304310500176818
    Journal articles | 2004
    2004, 'We're always at war: the Worlding of Writing/Reading. An Interview with Leslie Scalapino', How2, 2, https://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_2_2004/current/feature/brewster.htm
    Journal articles | 2003
    Brewster A; Smith H, 2003, 'AFFECTions: Friendship, Community, Bodies', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct03/brewstersmith.htm
    Journal articles | 2003
    Brewster A, 2003, 'Intersubjectivity, Whiteness and Race: Reading Indigenous Life Stories (With particular reference to Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri`s The Man From Sunrise Side)', Working Papers on the Web, Vol.5, https://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/race/Brewster.htm#
    Journal articles | 2003
    Brewster A, 2003, 'Strangeness, Magic and Writing', Cultural Studies Review, Vol.9, pp. 157 - 163
    Journal articles | 2003
    Brewster A, 2003, 'The Beach as `Dreaming Place`: Reconciliation, he Past and the Zone of Intersubjectivity in Indigenous Literature', New Literatures Review, Vol. 40, pp. 33 - 41
    Journal articles | 2002
    Brewster A, 2002, '"everyone is connected in the thrash": the bed and the globe in Juliana Spahr`s "Fuck you - Aloha - I love you"', How2 e-journal, 1, http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2
    Journal articles | 2002
    Brewster A, 2002, 'Aboriginal life writing and globalisation: Doris Pilkington`s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence', Australian Humanities Review, Issue 25, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2002/03/01/1929/
    Journal articles | 2002
    2002, 'Aboriginal life writing and globalisation: Doris Pilkington's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence', Southerly, 62, pp. 153 - 161
    Journal articles | 2002
    2002, 'ProseThetic Memories', Salt: An International Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 16, pp. 199 - 211
    Journal articles | 1998
    1998, 'Interview with Rae Armantrout', Southern Review, 31, pp. 231 - 243
    Journal articles | 1994
    1994, 'Ania Walwicz's Vagrant Narration: Cosmopolitanism vs. Nationalism in Australia', Kunapipi, 16, pp. 181 - 190
    Journal articles | 1993
    1993, 'A Critique of Bharati Mukherjee's Neo-nationalism', SPAN, 34-35, pp. 50 - 59
    Journal articles | 1993
    1993, 'An Uneasy Truce: Aboriginal Women's Autobiography in the Arena of Postcolonial Studies', SPAN, 36, pp. 144 - 153
    Journal articles | 1990
    1990, '“Radical Difference”, review article of Trinh T. Minh-ha Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism and Shirley Lim, Modem Secret', CRNLE Reviews Journal, 1, pp. 17 - 22
    Journal articles | 1987
    1987, 'Inventing countries: Nationalism in Singapore and Malaya in the 50's', Indian Ocean Newsletter, 8 July, pp. 5 - 6
    Journal articles | 1987
    1987, 'Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Singapore and Malaysia in the 50's and 60's', SPAN, 24, pp. 136 - 150
    Journal articles | 1982
    1982, 'An interview with Stanislaw Lem', Science Fiction, 4, pp. 6 - 8
    Journal articles | 1982
    1982, 'The Cultural Context of Metaphor in the Singapore Short Story', New Literature Review, 10, pp. 54 - 60
    Journal articles | 1980
    1980, 'The Freedom to Decompose: The poetry of Kamala Das', Journal of Indian Writing in English, 8, pp. 98 - 107
  • Creative Written Works | 2015
    Brewster A, 2015, Heart, 'Whaddya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex, Blaber B, (ed.), Wakefield Press
    Creative Written Works | 2012
    Brewster A, 2012, Travelogue, Engaging with Literature of Commitment, Rodopi
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Brewster A, 2004, 'Revisiting the Idea of Home', in Burke JMM; Langford M (ed.), Ngara: 4th Australian Poetry Festival, Ngara: 4th Australian Poetry Festival, Sydney, pp. 71 - 75, presented at Ngara: 4th Australian Poetry Festival, Sydney, 04 September 2004 - 11 September 2004
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2004
    Dean R; Brewster A; Smith H, 2004, soundAFFECTs, TEXTJournal, - , at: http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct04/content.htm
    Conference Papers | 1999
    Brewster A, 1999, 'Adolescence and the post-65 Generation: Colin Cheong`s The Stolen Child', in Sankaran C (ed.), 9th Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region, 9th Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region, Singapore, pp. 149 - 156, presented at 9th Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region, Singapore, -
    Conference Papers | 1996
    1996, 'Fictocriticism: Undisciplined Writing', in Hutchinson J; Williams G (ed.), Writing-teaching, teaching writing : the proceedings / the Association of University Writing Programs, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, pp. 29 - 32, presented at The Association of University Writing Programs First Annual Conference, U.T.St, Sydney, 11 October 1996
    Conference Papers | 1995
    1995, 'Fictocriticism: Pedagogy and Practice', in Guerin C; Butterss P; Nettelbeck A (eds.), Crossing lines : formations of Australian culture : proceedings of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Adelaide, 1995, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, [Adelaide]. Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Adelaide, pp. 89 - 92, presented at Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference. (17th : 1995 : Adelaide, S. Aust.), Adelaide, S.A.
    Creative Written Works | 1994
    1994, Fictocritical sequence, ‘Headstarts’, Hope and Fear: An Anthology of SA Women's Writing 1894-1994, Greet A; Hosking S, (ed.), Flinders University
    Creative Written Works | 1993
    1993, Fictocritical sequence, ‘Two Prayers', S.E. Asia Writes Back, Loh CY; Ong IK, (ed.), Skoob Books
    Conference Papers | 1993
    1993, 'Aboriginal Women's Autobiography: Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed', in Riemenschneide D; Davis GV (ed.), Aratjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia, Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA, pp. 121 - 181, presented at Aratjara: literature of the first Australians, Dusseldorf
    Conference Papers | 1992
    1992, 'Telling Stories: Agency and Audience in Aboriginal Women's Autobiography', in Seal G; Grant D (ed.), Australia in the world : perceptions and possibilities : papers from the Outside Images of Australia Conference, Perth, 1992, Black Swan Press, Perth, W.A., pp. 45 - 50, presented at Outside Images of Australia Conference, Perth, 1992, Perth, W.A.
    Conference Papers | 1988
    1988, 'K.S. Maniam's The Return: Marginal Discourse in Malaysia', in Bennett B (ed.), A Sense of exile : essays in the literature of the Asia-Pacific region. Nedlands, W.A.: Centre for Studies in Australian Literature., Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, Nedlands, W.A., pp. 173 - 180, presented at Symposium on literature in the Asia-Pacific region, University of Western Australia
    Conference Papers | 1982
    1982, 'Singapore and Malaysian Women Poets, Local and Expatriate', in Bennett B; Ee TH; Shepherd R (eds.), The writer's sense of the contemporary: papers in Southeast Asian and Australian literature, Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A., Centre for the Studies of Australian Literature, Nedlands, W.A., pp. 46 - 50, presented at Southeast Asian and Australian literature Seminar, University of Western Australia, 25 September 1982

My Teaching

Anne has won a UNSW Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision (2008).

She welcomes requests to supervise PhD, MA and honours students.

Her current postgraduate supervisions include:

  • Alissa Coons "Voluntary Exiles, Incidental Immigrants: Episodes from Globalised Lives" (non-fiction novel and scholarly dissertation).
  • Anne Cossins The Night the Cemetery Talked (novel)
  • Vanessa Alexander Female Comedy (television script and scholarly dissertation)
  • Robin Hemley A Manifesto for Limbo (novel) and "Speculation and Conjecture in Contemporary Nonfiction
  • Jacqueliene Bailey "Writing as an Act of Giving" (fictionalised memoir and scholarly dissertation)

Her past supervisions include:

PhD

  • Charlotte Wood (2016)  The Natural Way of Things (novel) and “Looking for Trouble: Problem-finding Processes in Literary Creativity”
  • Suzette Mayr Concrete Swans (novel) and “The Architecture of Bad Dreams: The Sentient House in Australian and Canadian Literature
  • Roanna Gonsalves (2016) Up Sky Down Sky Middle Water (short stories) and “Writer vs Money: Negotiating the Field of English Literature in English”
  • Luther Uthayakumaran (2015)  Judgement (novel) and “Pain at midnight: Representation of trauma and justice in Sri Lankan civil war literature”
  • Sue Parker (2015) Winter, the Trees (novel) and “The Spatial Field of Plots: Space, Time and Plot in Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life”  
  • Marygai Hayllar (2012) ‘Framing the Hayllar Sisters: A Multi-genre Biography of Four English Victorian Painters’ (biography and scholarly dissertation)
  • Mette Jakobsen (2010) Skeleton Bird (novel) and “Into the Wood”
  • Diane Powell (2007) “Reverberations: An Exploration of Memory and Cultural Identity” (fictocritical thesis)
  • Rebecca Housel (2007) “My Truth: Women Speak Cancer” (fictocritical thesis)
  • Jenny Breukelaar (2007) Viper (novel) and “Heroics of the False: A New Look at Noir”
  • Rebecca Curran (2007) “Internal Difference/Where the Meanings are: A Theory of Productive Mourning” (fictocritical thesis)
  • Paula Abood (2006) Shaharazad (stories) and “The Arab as Spectacle: Race, Gender and Representation in Australian Popular Culture”
  • Ben Peek (2006) A year in the city (novel) and dissertation
  • Andrew Watts (2006) Fragments of a Former Moon (novel) and “Metonymy and Trauma: Re-presenting Death in the Literature of W.G. Sebald”
  • Eric Hansen (2005) Friction: "the umbrella encounters the sewing machine" (fictocritical thesis)
  • Souk-Yee Wong (2004) Expelled (novel) and “Negotiating Nationalist Discourse: Singaporean Resistance Literature”

MA (Research)

  • Luther Uthayakumaran (2003) “To Speak of Silence: Post-coloniality and the Narration of Pain in Context of the Civil War in Sri Lanka”  (stories and scholarly dissertation

Undergraduate Courses

Anne convenes

  • ARTS 3024 Writing Bodies
  • ARTS3034 Advanced Creative Writing