The University of Western Australia

Professor Alison Bartlett

Chair, Women's Studies
English and Cultural Studies

Contact details

Address

English and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia (M202)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2066

Fax

6488 1030

Email

alison.bartlett@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.41, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA GradCertEd PhD James Cook

Biography

I have a BA (Hons), PhD and GradCertEd all from James Cook University of North Queensland. Before that I was a dental therapist in SA, NT and Victoria. My degree was in literature and history and my PhD in Australian literature and French psychoanalytic feminist theory.
I spent ten years teaching literature at the University of Southern Queensland before moving to UWA in 2005.

Key research

Maternal Bodies and Breastfeeding

Remembering Australian Feminist Activism

Feminist Objects and Affect

Contemporary Australian Literature

Feminist Pedagogy

Publications

Books

2010 Giving Breast Milk: Body Ethics and Contemporary Breastfeeding Practice, Ed. Rhonda Shaw & Alison Bartlett. Toronto: Demeter Press.

2005 Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding Sydney: UNSW Press.

2004 Meanings of Breastmilk: New Feminist Flavours, Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies vol 19 issue 45. Ed. Alison Bartlett and Fiona Giles.

2001 Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming (R)Elations, Ed. Alison Bartlett & Gina Mercer. Eruptions ser. New York: Peter Lang.

2001 Country Women’s Edition, Special Issue Coppertales: journal of rural arts vol 7. Ed. Alison Bartlett.

1999 Australian Literature and the Public Sphere, Ed. Alison Bartlett, Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee. Toowoomba: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

1998 Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing ASAL Literary Studies ser. Canberra: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.


Articles

2010 ‘Ambient Thinking: Or, Sweating over Theory’ M/C Journal 13.2 (2010) online

2010 ‘Babydaze: Maternal Time’ Time & Society 19.1: 120-132.

2007 ‘Critics and Crucibles: Inez Baranay’s Career’ Antipodes Dec 2007: 15-19.

2007 ‘Bleeding in Fremantle: Embodying Trauma in Craig Silvey’s Rhubarb’ Westerley 52: 192-204.

2007 ‘Notes Toward an Archive of Australian Feminist Activism’ with Maryanne Dever and Margaret Henderson. Outskirts: feminisms along the edge online journal 16.

2006 ‘Irigaray Makes Jam’ M/C Journal: a journal of media and culture 9.6 (2006) online

2006 ‘Theory, Desire, and Maternity: At Work in Academia’ Hecate 32.3: 321-33

2006 ‘Dear Regina: formative conversations about feminist writing’ Feminist Theory and Praxis 1 online

2005 ‘She Seems Nice: Teaching Evaluations and Gender Trouble’ Feminist Teacher 15.3: 195-202.

2005 ‘Maternal Sexuality and Breastfeeding’ Sex Education. 5,1:67-77

2005 ‘Scripts and meanings for breastfeeding in popular culture’ Birth Issues 14.1: 7-12.

2004 ‘Black Breasts, White Milk? Ways of representing breastfeeding and race in Australia.’ Australian Feminist Studies 19.45: 341-355.

2003 ‘Breastfeeding bodies and choice in late capitalism.’ Hecate 29.2: 153-165.

2003 ‘Managing Violence? Feminist management practice in a domestic violence service’ with Rosemary Campbell and Louise Whitaker. Women Against Violence Journal 14: 35-41.

2002 ‘Breastfeeding as Headwork: corporeal feminism and meanings for breastfeeding’ Women’s Studies International Forum 25,3: 373-82.

2002 ‘Public practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city’ Continuum: journal of media and culture 16.1: 111-21.

2001 ‘Desire in the Desert: exploring contemporary Australian desert narratives.’ Antipodes 15,2: 115-22.

2000 ‘Thinking through breasts: writing maternity’ Feminist Theory 1,2: 173-188

2000 ‘Reconceptualising Discourses of Power in Postgraduate Pedagogies’ with Gina Mercer, Teaching in Higher Education 5,2: 195-204.

1998 ‘Cooking up a Feast: Finding Metaphors for feminist postgraduate supervision’ with Gina Mercer Australian Feminist Studies 14,30:367-75.

1998 ‘A Passionate Subject: Representing Desire in Feminist Pedagogy.’ Gender and Education 10,1: 85-92.

1993 ‘Other Stories: the Representation of History in Recent Novels by Australian Women Writers’ Southerly 53,1 (1993): 165-80.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

I am discipline chair of the Women's Studies programme at UWA, teach Women's Studies and English and Cultural Studies units and supervise postgraduate students.

Future research

Memories and Memorialising Australian Feminist Activism, 1970-2000.
Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp, 1983.
New Maternities in Cinema from 2000.
Body Practices and Breastfeeding Ethics

Funding received

National Museum of Australia
University of Western Australia
University of Southern Queensland.

Memberships

President, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
Cultural Studies Association of Australia
Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Research profile

Research profile and publications