Dr Alice Healy

Teaching Australian Literature Survey

Association for the Study of Australian Literature

AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

Northeast Modern Language Association

Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), English literature, Flinders University of South Australia

Doctor of Philosophy (Australian Studies), Flinders University of South Australia

University of SA Supported Teachers' Award 2005

Early Career Researchers' Cohort 2006

• Australian Literature and Cinema; Indigenous Literature and Cinema;
• Film adaptation; Translation Studies, especially between artistic media; Reception and Reader Response Theory; Screen theory; Cultural theory; History of visuality, gaze theories and visual technology;
• Australian History and Politics;
• Australian Literature Education; Cross-cultural collaboration in education.

GRANTS/CURRENT PROJECT

'Australian Literature Teaching Survey', ALTC Discipline Based Initiative (DBI) Grant 2008, Co-Director with Dr Philip Mead (Lead Institution: University of Tasmania) & Ms Kerry Kilner (Executive Manager, AustLit Gateway Project, University of Queensland)

PUBLICATIONS

2008 'When History Changes Who We Were', Review Essay, Australian Literary Studies, eds. Leigh Dale & Margaret Henderson, vol.23 no.4.

2006 'Impossible Speech and the Burden of Translation: Lilian's Story from Page to Screen', in Milech, Barbara & Mead, Philip, (eds.) Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL) (Refereed publication)

2004 'Memories in a Suitcase: Migrancy and Translation in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping' In Williams, Sue, Lonergan, Dymphna, Hosking, Rick, Deane, Laura and Bierbaum, Nena (eds.) The Regenerative Spirit Volume 2: (Un)settling,(Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)Presentations Australian Post-Colonial Reflections, Lythrum Press, Adelaide (Refereed publication)

2002 'Camera Obscura or Mobile Eye? Spectatorship, Interpretation and Ambiguity in Blow Up and The Well' In Harding, Barbara (ed.) Counterpoints 2001: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference Proceedings, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide

2001 'Reading: Memory and the Creative Act' Crossings: Electronic Journal for the International Australian Studies Association (Refereed publication)

2001 'Altering Horizons: An Aesthetic of Reception and Reproduction in Oscar and Lucinda' in Mead, Philip (ed.) Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century, ASAL, Hobart (Refereed publication)

2001 'A Butterfly Nailed to the Page', Review Essay, Overland, Melbourne, July edition

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2009 (forthcoming December) '‘You’re going to be famous all over the world’: Aboriginal actors in Australian films' in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia reviewed: An interdisciplinary conference on history, film and popular culture, Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University and the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia.

2009 ''A plurality of nationalisms' : product placement, public relations and rituals of recognition in Luhrmann's Australia', Common Readers and Cultural Critics, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference, ANU, Canberra.

2008 'Post-colonial purgatory: Carver-style reconciliations in Ray Lawrence's Jindabyne', Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Postcolonial Australian Literature panel, Buffalo, New York.

2008 'Experiential Learning in a Humanities Classroom: Student History Projects', Division of EASS Teaching and Learning Colloquium, University of South Australia.

2007 'An immigrant child's room: translated spaces in Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem, Melina Marchetta's Looking for Alibrandi and Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded', Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities International Conference, Flinders Humanities Research Centre (FHRC).

2007 'More Than a Handmaiden to the Screen: Laura Jones as Reader, Screenwriter and Bridge-maker', New Reckonings: Australian Literature Past, Present, Future (in honour of Elizabeth Webby), Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Mini-conference, University of Sydney

2006 ''Tangled Hierarchies' and 'Strange Loops': the Ghostly Aesthetic of the Well' Spectres, Screens, Shadows, Mirrors, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference, University of Western Australia

2005 ''Impossible Speech' and the Burden of Translation: Lilian's Story from Page to Screen', Writing Across Cultures: Fiction, Memory, History, Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Adelaide;

2001 'Camera Obscura or Mobile Eye? Spectatorship, Interpretation and Ambiguity in Blow Up and The Well' Cultural Studies & Women's Studies Staff & Postgraduate Seminars - Flinders University

2001 'No Access Beyond the Frame: the Impenetrable Optic of The Well' Counterpoints: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Flinders University

2000 'Memories in a Suitcase: Migrancy and Translation in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping' Centre for Research New Literatures in English Conference - Flinders University

2000 'Altering Horizons: The Reproduction and Reception of Oscar and Lucinda' Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference - University of Tasmania;

2000 'The Inheritance of Memory: the Migrant's Story in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping' Cultural Studies & Women's Studies Seminars - Flinders University;

2000 'Migrancy and Memory: Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping' Federation of University Women Seminars - University of Adelaide;

1999 'Reader(s) Inside/Outside the text: the theories of Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss' School of Australian Studies Staff & Postgraduate Seminars - Flinders University;

1999 'Oscar and Lucinda: Cinematic and Textual Aspects' School of English Staff & Postgraduate Seminars - Flinders University;

1998 'Elizabeth Jolley's The Well and its Cinematic Translation' Australian Studies Postgraduate Conference - Flinders University

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline:

• Australian Literature and Cinema
• Australian Literature Education
• Australian Studies