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AULLA 2009 Plenary List

1. Elizabeth Grosz, Dept of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
2. Deirdre Coleman, Robert Wallace Chair of English, University of Melbourne.
3. Debjani Ganguly, Head of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.
4. Bob White, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia.
5. Jeffrey Riegel, Head of School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney.

1. Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University.

Elizabeth Grosz was born in Sydney, Australia and gained her PhD in Philosophy from the Department of General Philosophy, University of Sydney, where she taught as a lecturer and senior lecturer from 1978-1991. She moved to Monash University in Melbourne as Director of the newly formed Institute of Critical and Cultural Studies in 1992, where she was Associate Professor and Professor in Critical Theory and Philosophy. She has been a Visiting Professor at University of Califoria, Santa Cruz, University of California, Davis, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Richmond, George Washington University and the University of California, Irvine.

Selected Publications
Space, Time and Perversion. Essays on the Politics of Bodies. Routledge, New York; and Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995.
Volatile Bodies. Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Indiana University Press, Bloomington; and Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1994.
Jacques Lacan. A Feminist Introduction. Routledge, London and New York, 1990; this is currently being translated for a Chinese language edition of the book.
Sexual Subversions. Three French Feminists. Allen and Unwin, Sydney ; Unwin and Hyman, London and Boston, 1989.
Irigaray and the Divine. Local Consumption Occasional Papers (Monograph No. 9),1986.
Becomings. Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, Spring 1999.
FutureFall. Excursions into Postmodernity. (co-edited with T. Threadgold and D. Kelly) Power Institute Publications, Sydney, 1987.
Feminist Challenges. Social and Political Theory. (co-edited with C. Pateman) Allen and Unwin, Sydney; Unwin and Hyman, London; and Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1986.
Language, Semiotics, Ideology. (co-edited with T Threadgold, G Kress and MAK Halliday) SASSCS, Sydney, 1986.

2. Deirdre Coleman

Deirdre Coleman completed Honours in English at the University of Melbourne before going to Oxford University where she graduated with a BPhil (1979) in Victorian literature and a DPhil (1986) on Coleridge's journalism. Since returning to Australia she has taught at the Universities of Wollongong, Adelaide and Sydney. While at the University of Sydney she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision. In December 2006 she was appointed Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne.

Selected publications

Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s (Leicester University Press, 1999)
Coleridge and 'The Friend' (1809-1810) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988)
Women Writing Home, 1700-1920: Female Correspondence across the British Empire, Australia, vol. 2 of 6 vols (Pickering & Chatto, 2006).
Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms. Co-edited with Dr Peter Otto (W. Cornwall: Locust Hill Press, 1992)
Olga Masters: Reporting Home. Her Writings as a Journalist (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1990)

3. Debjani Ganguly

Debjani Ganguly is Head of the Humanities Research Centre in the Research School of Humanities, ANU.  She is a literary and cultural historian and has published in the areas of postcolonial studies, global Anglophone writing, theories of world literature, caste and dalit studies, cultural histories of mixed-race, the eclectic cosmopolitanism of Gandhian thought, and Indian literary criticism.  She is currently working on a world literature project on Anglophone writing in the post-Cold War period with a focus on transnational works dealing with the global immanence of terror, warfare and genocide. Her recent publications include Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge, 2005), Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual (co-ed, MUP, 2007), Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives (co-ed, Routledge, 2007) and Pigments of the Imagination (Journal of Intercultural Studies, sp issue, co-editor, 2007). She was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK and Ireland in 2007 and currently represents the HRC at the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), Duke University.

Selected Publications:

Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, co-edited with Ned Curthoys, Melbourne University Press 2007,
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives, co-edited with John Docker, London: Routledge, New Delhi: Orient Longman
2005, Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity: Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics
1999, Impossible Selves: Cultural Readings of Identity, co-edited with J.Lo, D.Beard, R. Cunneen, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
1998, Unfinished Journeys: India File from Canberra, co-edited with Kavita Nandan Adelaide: Centre for New Literatures in English, Flinders University.

4. Bob White
Bob White is a professor of English at the University of Western Australia. His research interests are in Shakespeare, the Romantic poets, Pacificism and Human Rights in Literature, and Film History. He is a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academcy and the recipient of an Australian Centennial Medal.

Selected Publications:

Minstrels of Peace: Pacifism in English Literature (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Shakespeare's World: Proceedings of the World Shakespeare Congress 2006 (Delaware University Press, 2008) [co-ed. With Christa Jahnson and Richard Fotheringham].
Shakespeare's Local Habitations, [co-ed. With Krystyna Courtney] (Lodz University Press, 2006).
[ed] Romeo and Juliet: Contemporary Critical Essays (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).


5. Jeffrey Riegel

Most of Jeffrey Riegel’s thirty-year academic career was spent at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired from the position of Agassiz Professor of Chinese in 2007. He travels frequently to China and has long been committed to helping bring about a greater understanding of China. As Head of the School of Languages and Cultures he has broadened this commitment by stressing the need for Australians to recognize the importance of learning languages other than English and of gaining deeper familiarity with cultures outside the Anglo-American sphere.

Selected Publications

The Annals of Lü Buwei, Stanford University Press, 2001
Chinese Archaeological Abstracts (=volumes 8-10 of Monumenta Archaeologica) UCLA Institute of Archaeology, 1985