Teaching

English I (lectures, unless noted otherwise)

• 1982–1984 Robert Browning, selected poems
• 1982, 1985–1986 Selected poets and novels, and Shakespeare (tutorials)
• 1983 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
• 1985–1986 Literature, culture, and race: Shakespeare to V.S. Naipaul
• 1999–2000 Plagiarism and citation
• 2000 Victorian medievalist poetry, and Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
• 2000 Poe, Browning, and Whitman
• 2007 Modernist New York City poetry
• 2008–2010 H.D., Frank O’Hara, and the cinema
• 2012–2013 Prosopopoeia in Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literary texts
• 2014 Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, and Herman Melville, Billy Budd
• 2018–2019 The Gothic Imagination: Goethe, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Hawthorne, Poe, Dickinson, Le Fanu, Christina Rossetti, Gilman, Henry James, and Wharton (lectures and tutorials)
• 2019–2020 Modernist women poets and haute couture
• 2020 The poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, Stein, and Langston Hughes

English II and III (lectures, unless noted otherwise)

• 1981 Thomas Hardy, selected novels and poems (seminars)
• 1982–1983 Modes of the Gothic: Walpole to Maturin
• 1982–1984, 1992–1993 English III: selected nineteenth and twentieth-century poets and novels, and Shakespeare (tutorials)
• 1983–1985 Alfred Tennyson, selected poems
• 1983 English literature, 1900–1930: selected texts
• 1983 Victorian poets of faith and doubt (seminars)
• 1985 Ezra Pound, selected poems
• 1988 Irish Modernism [also for the Celtic Studies Program]
• 1988–1992 Women Writers, 1850–1930 [also for the Women’s Studies Program]
• 1990–1991, 1993–1994, 1996–1997 W.B. Yeats and Irish poetry [also for the Celtic Studies Program]
• 1991–1998 “Sapphos in Poetry”: women’s writing, 1760–1960 (lectures, seminars, and tutorials) [also for the Women’s Studies Program]
• 1995 Modernism, selected texts
• 1991–1998, 2000, 2002 American claims: Indian, settler, slave (lectures, seminars, and tutorials)
• 1998 Medieval themes in modern literature
• 1999 Yeats, Joyce, and Ireland (with Fiona Morrison) (lectures and seminars)
• 1999, 2002 Childhood Cultures (with Geoff Williams) (lectures and seminars)
• 2002 Marianne Moore and Frank O’Hara
• 2003, 2005, 2019–2020 The Tristan legend from Beroul and Thomas to du Maurier and Updike
• 2004, 2008, 2010 The poetry of W.B. Yeats
• 2005 The Bible in American literature
• 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017 Quotation, citation, and plagiarism (lectures and seminars) [in 2017 for the Writing Studies Program]
• 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018 Philosophies of language from Locke to Herder
• 2007, 2009 Victorian poetry
• 2009, 2011 James Joyce, Ulysses
• 2013 The literatures of the Iroquois and the Empire State
• 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 Literary theory: an introduction (basic questions; textual, editorial, and bibliographical theory; aesthetics from Kant to Wilde) (lectures and tutorials)
• 2019 Reading poetry: Spenser, The Faerie Queene; the sonnet; Aboriginal and Anglo-Australian poetry (tutorials)
• 2020 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

English II and III Honours Prerequisites (seminars, unless noted otherwise)

• 1984–1986 Modern American poetry and painting (with Terry Smith and Jim Tulip)
• 1984–1986 Masculine and feminine: Whitman to Woolf (with Penny Gay)
• 1990–1994, 1996–1997 “Make It New”, the American lyric: Pound, Moore, and O’Hara (with Don Anderson until 1992)
• 1995–1998 The literature of decadence
• 1998 Poetry and poetics
• 2003–2004 Canon, taste, and value (lectures)
• 2003–2004 The English language (tutorials)
• 2003 Literary criticism (tutorials)
• 2007–2009, 2011 Aesthetics and aestheticism: Kant to Wilde
• 2007 The English language and the English canon (tutorials)
• 2008 English research methods (lectures and tutorials)
• 2012 Literary theory: an introduction (lectures and tutorials)
• 2013–2017, 2019–2020 “The Literary in Theory”: chiefly Heidegger, Lacan, Adorno, Irigaray, Spivak, and Butler

English IV Honours Seminars (with Don Anderson until 1996)

• 1982 Twentieth-century literature (also with Penny Gay)
• 1983–1985 Twentieth-century epics, parodies, and travesties
• 1988 Modernism and postmodernism
• 1992–1996 “Red, Black, Blond, and Olive”: Meso-American, Native American, Anglo-American, and African American literatures
• 1999–2000 The literature of New York City and New Orleans
• 2002–2005, 2007–2008 Honours research workshops and colloquia
• 2002–2005 The learned and the literary: Bacon to Darwin
• 2009–2012, 2015, 2019 History writing in English: Bacon to Macaulay

Postgraduate English Seminars

• 1989 English literature from 1880 to 1920 (with Margaret Harris and Pamela Law)
• 1992 Literary research (with Brian Kiernan)
• 1995–2015 Occasional seminars on scholarly citation and research conduct
• 1996 New York City poetry
• 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 New Orleans literature
• 1999 Fin de siècle, fin du globe: H.G. Wells and W.B. Yeats
• 2002 Jorge Luis Borges, selected stories, and Samuel Beckett, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho
• 2003 English epics: Gibbon, Carlyle, and Joyce
• 2005 English epics: battle narratives from The Battle of Maldon to Macaulay

International and Comparative Literature Program Seminars

• 2010 James Joyce, Ulysses (great books)
• 2012 Frank O’Hara and New York School painting (words and pictures)
• 2012, 2015, 2020 New Orleans literature (cities of the world)
• 2013 Literary Orientalism: Herder to Said (what is literature?)
• 2014 Sexual farce: Wilde, Osbourne, and Orton (love in different languages)
• 2014, 2016 Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, and Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (great books)
• 2015 Oriental and Native American motifs in English literature (what is literature?)
• 2016 Gertrude Stein, Frank O’Hara, and Painting (words and pictures)

United States Studies Program lectures

• 2008–2016 Whitman, Leaves of Grass, and Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (American foundations)

Supervision

Honours and Coursework Masters supervisions (comprehensive but incomplete list of submitted theses, with cross-listings)

Poetry

• Christopher Marlowe
• William Shakespeare
• William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud
• William Blake and Vladimir Mayakovsky
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Edward Lear
• Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, and Hart Crane
• Emily Dickinson (two theses)
• G.M. Hopkins
• G.M. Hopkins and Duns Scotus
• G.M. Hopkins and Stéphane Mallarmé
• W.B. Yeats (four theses)
• T.S. Eliot
• T.S. Eliot and Ludwig Wittgenstein
• ee cummings
• Nancy Cunard
• Langston Hughes
• Judith Wright
• Frank O’Hara (three theses)
• Kevin Hart and Martin Heidegger
• Simon Armitage
• Madness and poetry
• Objects and objectivity in poetry
• Rhetoric of Romantic poetry

Novels and Prose

• One Thousand and One Nights
• Sir Walter Ralegh and Captain John Smith
• Mary Lamb
• Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Woolf
• Charles Dickens and Émile Zola
• George Eliot
• Herman Melville (two theses)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad
• George MacDonald
• George MacDonald and Lewis Carroll
• George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis
• Lewis Carroll
• Henry James
• Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Richard Jefferies
• Thomas Hardy (two theses)
• Guy de Maupassant and Kate Chopin
• Oscar Wilde
• Oscar Wilde and E.M. Forster
• Oscar Wilde, Bret Easton Ellis, and Will Self
• Olive Schreiner (two theses)
• Gertrude Atherton and Edith Wharton
• Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov
• Gertrude Stein (two theses)
• Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
• Gertrude Stein and Marguerite Duras
• James Joyce (seven theses)
• James Joyce and Djuna Barnes
• James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
• James Joyce and Stanley Cavell
• Wyndham Lewis
• Virginia Woolf
• D.H. Lawrence and Evelyn Waugh
• Djuna Barnes
• Ben Hecht
• Aldous Huxley
• Jean Toomer and Toni Morrison
• William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor
• Jorge Luis Borges and Peter Carey
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage
• Evelyn Waugh and Henry Green
• Samuel Beckett
• Jean Genet and James Baldwin
• Clarice Lispector
• William Styron
• Tayeb Salih
• E.L. Doctorow
• Toni Morrison
• Toni Morrison and her contemporaries
• Elena Ferrante and Luce Irigaray
• Paul Auster
• George R.R. Martin
• Catherynne Valente
• Autobiography
• Popular mythology and popular culture in post-war American fiction
• Representations of women in young adult fiction and video games
• Translation as a theme in fiction

Theatre, Performance, Visual, and Rhetorical Arts

• Rhetoric of Romantic poetry
• W.B. Yeats and Maurice Maeterlinck
• W.B. Yeats, Sean O’Casey, and Brian Friel
• Singers and singing in Gertrude Atherton and Edith Wharton
• Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
• Edward Adams and Eugene O’Neill
• Letters and words in Jasper Johns
• J.F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon televised debates rhetoric
• Representations of women in video games and young adult fiction
• Reality television

Literary Theory and Philosophy

• Duns Scotus and G.M. Hopkins
• Francis Bacon
• Early Modern semiotics
• Martin Heidegger and Kevin Hart
• Ludwig Wittgenstein and T.S. Eliot
• Paul de Man
• Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida
• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
• Stanley Cavell and James Joyce
• Jacques Derrida
• Jacques Derrida and John Searle
• Luce Irigaray and Elena Ferrante
• Fredric Jameson
• George Lakoff and metaphor
• Objects and objectivity in poetry
• Contemporary aesthetics

Other Topics

• Clytemnestra and Salomé
• Don Juan and Don Giovanni
• Nineteenth-century Hellenism
• Oscar Wilde’s parents’ writings
• Aleister Crowley and Robert Graves

Research Masters and Doctoral supervisions (including only primary or ultimate supervision of awarded degrees)

• 1989. Peter J. Hutchings. “Grave Plots: Narrative, Genre, and Death, from Late Romanticism to Postmodernism.” PhD.
• 1991. Judith Elen. “‘These walls will fall and rest’: House and Home in Women’s Fiction.” PhD.
• 1994. Jennifer Ann McDonell. “Victorian Polemic and the Poetics of the Feminine Subject: Robert Browning, Pompilia, and The Ring and the Book.” PhD.
• 1995. Alex Houen. “Narrative, Ontology, Metaphor: A Literary Ethics; Forster, Woolf, Beckett, Ricoeur, Heidegger, Bergson, Spinoza, Deleuze.” MPhil.
• 1997. Mark Byron. “Beckett’s Later Short Prose Texts: explicitus est liber [the book is set in order, finished].” MPhil.
• 2001. Michael Stuart Lynch. “Desire in the Subject of Discourse: Faulkner, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault.” PhD.
• 2002. Vanessa Kirkpatrick. “‘A subtle fire beneath the flesh’: Representations of Pain in Women’s Poetry, Medieval to Modern.” PhD.
• 2003. Wayne Pickard. “Lexicology, Biblical Allusion, and Symbolism in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” PhD.
• 2003. Sean Brendan Pryor. “Time and Poetry: Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot.” MPhil.
• 2005. Catriona Jane Menzies-Pike. “The Composition of the Modernist Book: Ulysses, A Draft of XXX Cantos, and The Making of Americans.” PhD.
• 2006. Simon Clarke. “The City in Blake’s Jerusalem: Los’s Work, the Intervolution of Jerusalem and Vala, and the Isolation of the Hermaphrodite.” PhD.
• 2007. Andrew Court. “Darwin and Analogy in Late Nineteenth-Century Literary History.” MPhil.
• 2007. Kai Chun Fung. “The Reception of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama in the Romantic Period: The Case of John Ford.” MA Research.
• 2008. Anthony Cordingley. “Samuel Beckett’s Comment c’est / How It Is: A Philosophy of Composition.” PhD.
• 2009. Amelia Fuqua. “Virginia Woolf, The Waves, and the Hindu Scriptures.” MA Research.
• 2012. Michelle Kelly. “Library Encounters: Textuality and the Institution.” PhD.
• 2012. Aaron Nyerges. “A Geography of Resistance.” PhD.
• 2012. Elizabeth Sofatzis. “Theodicy and the Problem of Evil in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Three of his Contemporaries: Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, and Robert Browning.” PhD.
• 2013. Yuan Zhang. “The Story of Beauty: Edith Wharton’s Aesthetic Views in First-Person Narratives.” PhD.
• 2014. Elizabeth Shek-Noble. “‘Any kind of outcast whatsoever’: The Art and Politics of David Wojnarowicz.” PhD.
• 2015. Mark Azzopardi. “Saul Bellow and Kurt Vonnegut: History, Politics, and American Fiction in the Cold War, 1944–1970.” PhD.
• 2015. Siva Prashant Kumar. “Borges and Mathematics: los juegos con el tiempo y con lo infinito [games with time and infinity].” MA Research.
• 2016. Bushra Naz. “Henry James’s Critique of Women’s Judgment: Aesthetic and Ethical Autonomy in The Portrait of a Lady, The Aspern Papers, The Spoils of Poynton, and The Outcry.” PhD.
• 2018. Carissa Ern Ai Chye. “Curating the Curator: The (Self-)Construction of Frank O’Hara as Myth.” PhD.
• 2018. Alexandra Margaret Gallagher. “‘Breathing for a while on our earth’: Re-Reading S.T. Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’ and ‘Letter to Asra’ in Light of His Severe Rheumatic Fever.” MA Research.
• 2019. David James Potter. “Ardor or Ada?: Authority, Artifice, and Ambivalence in Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor.” MPhil.