Associate Professor Fiona Morrison

Fiona Morrison is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW, where she teaches and supervises in the areas of postcolonial and world literatures, Australian literature and women’s writing. Her most recent book is Christina Stead and the Matter of America (2019), and she is currently working on two projects: a book-length study of Henry Handel Richardson an edited volume of scholarly essays on Eleanor Dark: Time, Tide and History: Selected Essays on Eleanor Dark (forthcoming SUP 2023).

Books

Morrison, F and B. Rooney. Eds. Time, Tide and History: Selected Essays on Eleanor Dark. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2023 (in press)

Morrison, F. Christina Stead: The Matter of America. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2019 (Won the Walter McRae Russell Award for Literary Scholarship 2021; nominated and shortlisted for the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2020 and nominated and shortlisted for the Dean’s Research Awards  for Best Monograph 2020.

Morrison, F. Ed.  Dorothy Hewett: Selected Prose. Nedlands: University of Western Australian Press, 2011.

Morrison, F and M. Parker. Masters in Pieces: The English Canon for the Twenty-First Century. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Journal articles

Morrison, F. “Leaving the Party: Dorothy Hewett, literary politics and the long 1960s.” Southerly 73.4 (2012) In press.

Morrison, F. “’I must have a mask to hide behind’: Signature, Imposture and Henry Handel Richardson.” JASAL Special Issue: Archive Madness (2011).

“The Quality of 'Life': Dorothy Hewett’s Literary Criticism” JASAL 10 (2010).

“The Elided Middle: Christina Stead’s For Love Alone and the Colonial ‘Voyage In. ’ Southerly 69:2 (2009): 155-174.

“On Foreign Ground: Expatriate Masculinity and the Unhomely Woman in Henry Handel Richardson’s Maurice Guest.” Southerly 61:2 (2001): 64-79.

“Figures of the Many and the One: Gender, Genre and Narrative Structure in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.” Sydney Studies in English 25 (1999): 133-151.

Morrison, F. (2021). “’Deep Digging’: Henry Handel Richardson, Transnational Allegory and the Unsettled Epic.” Affirmations: of the Modern 7.1 (2021): 72-83.

Morrison, F. (2018). “The Antiphonal Time of Violence in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife. Southerly 78 (3): 173-191. Print.

Morrison, F. (2017). “A Transfiguration of my Local Patriotism”: Christina Stead, the figure of oceanic totality and ‘A Night on the Indian Ocean’. Westerly, 2 (62): 87-100. Print

Morrison, F., & Rooney, B. (2016). Introduction "Rediscovering Christina Stead". Australian Literary Studies. Web

Morrison, F. (2016). ‘A Vermeer in the Hayloft’: Christina Stead, Unjust Neglect and Transnational Improprieties of Place and Kind. Australian Literary Studies. Web

Book chapters

Morrison, F. ‘The American Introduction: Perfect Readers, Unread Books and Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children.’ Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia. Ed. Peter Kirkpatrick. Sydney: Sydney UP (forthcoming, January, 2012)

Morrison, F.  “The ‘American Dilemma’: Christina Stead’s Cold War Anatomy”. Reading Across the Pacific: United States-Australian Intellectual Histories. Edited by Nicholas Birns and Robert Dixon. Sydney: University of Sydney Press. In press.

Morrison, F.  “’The Cruel Book’: Political Satire and the Female Satirist in I'm Dying Laughing.” 2000. In The Magic Phrase: Critical Essays on Christina Stead. Ed. M.A. Harris. Studies in Australian Literature Series. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000. Reprinted in Gale/Cengage. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism vol. 226. Belmont: Gale/Cengage Learning 2010.

Morrison, F.  “The Rhetoric of Sensation: Austen, Bronte and the ‘Gothic Romance.’” Proceedings of the English Association Conference, 2010. Ed. Richard Madeleine. Sydney: The English Association, 2010.

Morrison, F.  “To Have Loved and Lost: Life Writing and the Rhetoric of Consolation.” New Directions: Proceedings of the English Association Conference, 2008. Ed. Richard Madeleine. Sydney: The English Association, 2008. 110-121.

F. Morrison and M. Harris. Introduction. The Little Hotel. By Christina Stead. Sydney: Richmond, 2003.

Conference proceedings

“Anglo-Celtic Elegy: Reading the Cultural Hyphen.” Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies 2001. Ed. G. G. Evans. Sydney Series in Celtic Studies. Sydney: The Centre for Celtic Studies, 2001. 457-470.

Academic reviews

Morrison, F. Review of Nine Lives by Susan Sheridan

Morrison, F. The Young Dancer.” Review of Dorothy Hewett. The Gypsy Dancer. Ed. Christine Alexander and others. Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2009. Accepted for Southerly 71:2 (2010).

Morrison, F. “Ghostbusting”. Review of Teresa Peterson. The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Re-reading. Melbourne: MUP, 2000. In Overland 168 (2002): 102-106.