Collett, Anne A.

Overview

Associate Professor Anne Collett is a member of the English Literatures and Creative Writing Program in which she teaches Romantics, Victorians, Modernism and Honours English. She has published extensively on postcolonial literatures, with a focus on Caribbean, Australian and Canadian poetry including essays on Olive Senior, Kamau Brathwaite, Judith Wright, Claude McKay and Pauline Tekahionwake Johnson. She is currently completing a monograph (with Dorothy Jones) on gendered colonial modernity – a comparative study of Judith Wright and Canadian artist, Emily Carr.

Anne edited Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing & culture from 1999-2012; all issues from 1979 are available (open access) at https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/ She has edited 8 books, most recently: Romantic Climates: Literature & Science in the Age of Catastrophe (with Oliva Murphy, in press, Palgrave Macmillan), Postcolonial Past & Present (with Leigh Dale, 2018, Rodopi/Brill), Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather (with Russell McDougall & Sue Thomas, 2017, Palgrave Macmillan), Dissenting Lives (with Tony Simoes da Silva, 2015, Routledge) and The Unsociable Sociability of Women’s Lifewriting (with Louise D’Arcens, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan).

Anne was the Professorial Chair of Australian Studies at the Universities of Tokyo (2011/12) and Copenhagen (2014/15).

Top Publications

Year	Title
2017	Hurricane Story (with special reference to the poetry of Olive Senior)
2017	Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
2009	Gendered tree-scapes in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright Published in Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967): a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
2012	Post-3.11 Australia-Japan co-operation: facing non-traditional security challenges: Items of sentimental value
2012	'Lost and found': the memory salvage project of 3.11 Published in Social Alternatives
2010	Size matters: the oppositional self-portraiture of Emily Carr
2017	'Why don't you write about Canada': Olive Senior's poetry, everybody's history, and the 'condition of resonance'
2008	Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake: trafficking woman

Research Areas

Research Overview

Postcolonial Poetry (Caribbean, Australian & Canadian)
Politics of Poetics
Environmental Humanities:
Hurricane Story (Caribbean & Australia/Pacific)
Literature of (Natural) Catastrophe
Cultural, Literary and Ecological History of WaterLands

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent
Canada Continent
Caribbean Transnational Region

Member Of

Centre for Critical Creative Practice (C3P Executive Member 2017 -
Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Member 2015 -
Australian Association for Caribbean Studies Executive Member 1997 -
European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Languages Study Member 1996 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2016	From ‘Syd Harrex: Retrospective for an Autumnal Poet’ Published In Transnational Literature
2016	Love and vision: the story of Kathleen McArthur's care for Wallum Country Published In Philosophy Activism Nature
2013	Imag(in)ing the Pacific: modernist women artists Published In Pacific & American Studies
2013	Phantom Dwelling: A Discussion of Judith Wright's "Late Style" Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Phantom Dwelling: A Discussion of Judith Wright's Late Style Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Poetry, Activism and Cultural Capital Published In Australian Literary Studies
2012	'Lost and found': the memory salvage project of 3.11 Published In Social Alternatives
2012	Hone Tuwhare: at the interface of oral and literary poetic traditions Published In Asiatic
2012	Kite and Quilt: Olives Senior's exploration of her poetic inheritance Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2012	Ourselves writ strange Published In CPAS Newsletter
2012	Post-3.11 Australia-Japan co-operation: facing non-traditional security challenges: Items of sentimental value
2011	Editorial: Dissenting Lives Published In Life Writing
2011	Shadows Sisters: Judith Wright & Emily Carr Published In Southern Hemisphere Review
2010	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2010	Establishing an Australian/Caribbean Alliance: stories passed on by Penny van Toorn and Olive Senior Published In Australian Literary Studies
2009	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2009	Gendered tree-scapes in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright Published In Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967): a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
2009	Of Sages and Sybils: Alec Hope and Judith Wright Published In Australian Literary Studies
2009	Portrait of the artist as a young colonial girl: Emily Carr and Judith Wright Published In Journal of Commonwealth Literature
2009	Ritual masking and performed intimacy: the complex 'I' of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's life poem Published In Life Writing
2009	Sex and the city: Eliot and Woolf's vision of post-WWI London Published In Virginia Woolf Miscellany
2009	Testimony to the Truth: Charlotte Bronte and Alexander Harris Published In The Bronte Thunderer: Journal of the Australian Bronte Association
2009	The significance of the littoral in Beverley Farmer's novel, The Seal Woman Published In Australian Literary Studies
2008	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2008	Syd Harrex: Restrospective for an Autumnal Poet Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2008	The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Kate Llewellyn's Self Portrait of a Lemon Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature
2007	'Kylie Tennant: a life, by Jane Grant' Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2007	Blue-belonging: a discussion of Olive Senior's latest collection of poetry, over the roofs of the world Published In ARIEL
2007	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2007	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2007	Life sentence: Jamaica Kincaid and the exile of Elaine Potter Richardson Published In New Literatures Review

Book

Year	Title
2019	100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder Publisher Australia: Open Humanities Press

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	A slow reading of Olive Senior's hurricane story Published In 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder Publisher London
2019	This Thing of Darkness: Reading Atmospheric Disturbance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor Published In Romantic Climates: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe Publisher Switzerland
2017	'Why don't you write about Canada': Olive Senior's poetry, everybody's history, and the 'condition of resonance' Published In Beyond Understanding Canada: Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
2017	Hurricane Story (with special reference to the poetry of Olive Senior) Published In Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Publisher Switzerland
2017	Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Published In Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Publisher Switzerland
2016	Hurricane Story (With Special Reference to the Poetry of Olive Senior) Published In Tracking the Literature of Tropical weather: Typhoons, Cyclones, Hurricances Publisher United States
2013	Traces from "the great mass of the memory mountain": the poetry and poetics of Edward Kamau Brathwaite Published In Poetry and the Trace
2011	Writing freedom: Nadine Gordimer and The New Yorker Published In Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
2010	'Femmes a part': unsociable sociability, women, lifewriting Published In The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Publisher UK
2010	Emily Carr and Judith Wright: bearing witness through art, autobiography and friendship Published In Recent Trends in Canadian Studies
2010	Playing with water: elements of the sublime in the domestic domain Published In Poets & Perspectives: Kate Llewellyn
2010	Size matters: the oppositional self-portraiture of Emily Carr Published In The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Publisher UK
2009	The Tempest, The Caribbean and the Development of a Black Aesthetic Published In Shakespeare in Multiperspectives - Selected Essays from the 2008 International Symposium
2008	Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake: trafficking woman Published In Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance

Editor Of

Book
- Postcolonial Past & Present Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies. Amsterdam. 2019
- Romantic Climates: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe. Switzerland. 2019
- Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather. Switzerland. 2017
- Dissenting Lives. London. 2015
- The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting. UK. 2010

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	The Primordial Lost Object: Melancholia and the Politics of Eleanor Dark	Gaffney, Alicia
Doctor of Philosophy	Examining Identity Representation and its Discourse in Contemporary Anglophone Arab Women's Life Writing	Al Esi, Nadia Abdulridha
Doctor of Philosophy	Representations of Misogyny in Diasporic Chinese Literature	Lu, Qiuping
Doctor of Philosophy	'I will not be that girl in the box: female-centric television, feminisms and transmedia engagements in the subscription era	Boyle, Amy
Doctor of Philosophy	The Presence of Adult Voice in Contemporary Australian YA Literature	Macdonald, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Kate Llewellyn: Antipodean Romantic	Sladek, Peta

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1075 (confirmed)

Top Publications

Year	Title
2017	Hurricane Story (with special reference to the poetry of Olive Senior)
2017	Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
2009	Gendered tree-scapes in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright Published in Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967): a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
2012	Post-3.11 Australia-Japan co-operation: facing non-traditional security challenges: Items of sentimental value
2012	'Lost and found': the memory salvage project of 3.11 Published in Social Alternatives
2010	Size matters: the oppositional self-portraiture of Emily Carr
2017	'Why don't you write about Canada': Olive Senior's poetry, everybody's history, and the 'condition of resonance'
2008	Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake: trafficking woman

Research Areas

Research Overview

Postcolonial Poetry (Caribbean, Australian & Canadian)
Politics of Poetics
Environmental Humanities:
Hurricane Story (Caribbean & Australia/Pacific)
Literature of (Natural) Catastrophe
Cultural, Literary and Ecological History of WaterLands

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent
Canada Continent
Caribbean Transnational Region

Member Of

Centre for Critical Creative Practice (C3P Executive Member 2017 -
Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Member 2015 -
Australian Association for Caribbean Studies Executive Member 1997 -
European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Languages Study Member 1996 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2016	From ‘Syd Harrex: Retrospective for an Autumnal Poet’ Published In Transnational Literature
2016	Love and vision: the story of Kathleen McArthur's care for Wallum Country Published In Philosophy Activism Nature
2013	Imag(in)ing the Pacific: modernist women artists Published In Pacific & American Studies
2013	Phantom Dwelling: A Discussion of Judith Wright's "Late Style" Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Phantom Dwelling: A Discussion of Judith Wright's Late Style Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Poetry, Activism and Cultural Capital Published In Australian Literary Studies
2012	'Lost and found': the memory salvage project of 3.11 Published In Social Alternatives
2012	Hone Tuwhare: at the interface of oral and literary poetic traditions Published In Asiatic
2012	Kite and Quilt: Olives Senior's exploration of her poetic inheritance Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2012	Ourselves writ strange Published In CPAS Newsletter
2012	Post-3.11 Australia-Japan co-operation: facing non-traditional security challenges: Items of sentimental value
2011	Editorial: Dissenting Lives Published In Life Writing
2011	Shadows Sisters: Judith Wright & Emily Carr Published In Southern Hemisphere Review
2010	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2010	Establishing an Australian/Caribbean Alliance: stories passed on by Penny van Toorn and Olive Senior Published In Australian Literary Studies
2009	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2009	Gendered tree-scapes in the art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright Published In Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967): a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
2009	Of Sages and Sybils: Alec Hope and Judith Wright Published In Australian Literary Studies
2009	Portrait of the artist as a young colonial girl: Emily Carr and Judith Wright Published In Journal of Commonwealth Literature
2009	Ritual masking and performed intimacy: the complex 'I' of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's life poem Published In Life Writing
2009	Sex and the city: Eliot and Woolf's vision of post-WWI London Published In Virginia Woolf Miscellany
2009	Testimony to the Truth: Charlotte Bronte and Alexander Harris Published In The Bronte Thunderer: Journal of the Australian Bronte Association
2009	The significance of the littoral in Beverley Farmer's novel, The Seal Woman Published In Australian Literary Studies
2008	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2008	Syd Harrex: Restrospective for an Autumnal Poet Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2008	The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Kate Llewellyn's Self Portrait of a Lemon Published In Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature
2007	'Kylie Tennant: a life, by Jane Grant' Published In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
2007	Blue-belonging: a discussion of Olive Senior's latest collection of poetry, over the roofs of the world Published In ARIEL
2007	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2007	Editorial Published In Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing
2007	Life sentence: Jamaica Kincaid and the exile of Elaine Potter Richardson Published In New Literatures Review

Book

Year	Title
2019	100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder Publisher Australia: Open Humanities Press

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	A slow reading of Olive Senior's hurricane story Published In 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder Publisher London
2019	This Thing of Darkness: Reading Atmospheric Disturbance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor Published In Romantic Climates: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe Publisher Switzerland
2017	'Why don't you write about Canada': Olive Senior's poetry, everybody's history, and the 'condition of resonance' Published In Beyond Understanding Canada: Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
2017	Hurricane Story (with special reference to the poetry of Olive Senior) Published In Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Publisher Switzerland
2017	Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Published In Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather Publisher Switzerland
2016	Hurricane Story (With Special Reference to the Poetry of Olive Senior) Published In Tracking the Literature of Tropical weather: Typhoons, Cyclones, Hurricances Publisher United States
2013	Traces from "the great mass of the memory mountain": the poetry and poetics of Edward Kamau Brathwaite Published In Poetry and the Trace
2011	Writing freedom: Nadine Gordimer and The New Yorker Published In Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
2010	'Femmes a part': unsociable sociability, women, lifewriting Published In The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Publisher UK
2010	Emily Carr and Judith Wright: bearing witness through art, autobiography and friendship Published In Recent Trends in Canadian Studies
2010	Playing with water: elements of the sublime in the domestic domain Published In Poets & Perspectives: Kate Llewellyn
2010	Size matters: the oppositional self-portraiture of Emily Carr Published In The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Publisher UK
2009	The Tempest, The Caribbean and the Development of a Black Aesthetic Published In Shakespeare in Multiperspectives - Selected Essays from the 2008 International Symposium
2008	Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake: trafficking woman Published In Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance

Editor Of

Book
- Postcolonial Past & Present Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies. Amsterdam. 2019
- Romantic Climates: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe. Switzerland. 2019
- Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather. Switzerland. 2017
- Dissenting Lives. London. 2015
- The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting. UK. 2010

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	The Primordial Lost Object: Melancholia and the Politics of Eleanor Dark	Gaffney, Alicia
Doctor of Philosophy	Examining Identity Representation and its Discourse in Contemporary Anglophone Arab Women's Life Writing	Al Esi, Nadia Abdulridha
Doctor of Philosophy	Representations of Misogyny in Diasporic Chinese Literature	Lu, Qiuping
Doctor of Philosophy	'I will not be that girl in the box: female-centric television, feminisms and transmedia engagements in the subscription era	Boyle, Amy
Doctor of Philosophy	The Presence of Adult Voice in Contemporary Australian YA Literature	Macdonald, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Kate Llewellyn: Antipodean Romantic	Sladek, Peta

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1075 (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Editor Of

Book

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Editor Of

Book

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus