The University of Western Australia

Professor Kieran Dolin

Discipline Chair/Professor
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 2072

Fax

6488 1030

Email

kieran.dolin@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room G11, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

LLB MA PhD W.Aust.

Biography

Associate Professor Kieran Dolin studied and practised Law before completing graduate work in English. His main research interests are in the many connections between law and literature, in Australian Literature, and in the nineteenth century. Associate Professor Dolin has chaired the discipline of English and Cultural Studies at UWA, and was a member of the Curriculum Council examiners' panel for TEE English Literature.

Publications

(edited, with Tanya Dalziell and Tony Hughes-d'Aeth) Compulsory Screening: Border Protection, Migration and the Australian Screen, Studies in Australasian Cinema 3.1 (2009)
A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, March 2007.

"Law, Literature and Symbolic Revolution: Bleak House," Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 12. 1 (2007), 10-18 http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/AJVS/article/viewFile/724/830

"Continuing Negotiations: Law and Literature in Short Stories by Louis Auchincloss," Law and Literature 15 (2003), 189-207

"Law and Literature - Walking the Boundary with Robert Frost and the US Supreme Court," UWA Law Review 31 (2003), 202-18

Entries on "Law and Literature", "John Mortimer", and "Jeremy Bentham" in Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (New York: Continuum, 2003).

"The Transfigurations of Caroline Norton," Victorian Literature and Culture 30/2 (2002), 503-27
- Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol 205, ed. Kathy Darrow (forthcoming, Gale, 2009)

"Narrating the Notable Trial: The Case of Dr John Bodkin Adams," REAL: Research in English and American Literature (2002), 145-65

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature Cambridge University Press (1999)

"A Woman's Pleading: Caroline Norton's Pamphlets on Laws for Women in Nineteenth-Century England" Australian Feminist Law Journal 10 (1998) 51-60

"Farrago for Australia: Law, Power and Textuality in Three Novels by Nicholas Hasluck", Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33 (1998) 113-24.

"Freedom, Uncertainty and Diversity: the Critique of Imperialist Law in A Passage to India," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 36 (1994), 328-352.

Research profile

Research profile and publications