ProfessorCassandra Atherton

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean, Research

Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean, Research
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 72585 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

I teach in the Literature and Writing disciplines and I am extremely interested in the link between these two disciplines and the way in which they can work to inform one another.

Within these disciplines I am a specialist prose poetry, ekphrastic poetry, canonical literature as well as Japanese texts in translation, especially atomic bomb literature.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALW 225 - Fiction Writing
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALL 376 - Classics and Trash
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Top Bloke: Examining (Toxic) Masculinity in Australian Literature
    Elizabeth Suzanne Gloster - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Perrault's Bluebeard: Discourses of Disciplinary Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Fairytales
    Claudia Barnett - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Adam Problem: Subverting the Voice of Capitalist Self-Interest as an Experiment in Ecocriticism and Utopian Fiction
    Greg Anthony FOYSTER - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Looking and aesthetics: Beyond literary representations of voyeurism.
    Roberta Shaw - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Homebirds: re-conceptualising music in young adult LGBTQ fiction
    Rebecca Hutton - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Working title: Magical realism as elegy
    Jo Langdon - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Anhaga: An exploration in poetry of narrative, memory and identity
    Liam Guilar - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Uncanny Suburbia and Australian Fiction
    Libbie Chellew - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Poetry and the Elegiac Self: A Creative Thesis with Exegesis
    Autumn Royal - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Keepers of Culture: Women, Food and Writing
    Deb Wain - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    On the Edge: Tracing the Liminal in Labour Narratives
    Zoe Dzunko - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tell Me Something: The Poetics of Maternal Subjectivity
    Shelley Lee Buerger - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mythmaking and Masculinity in the Fiction of Norman Lindsay
    Megan Jane Mooney Taylor - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    "Dead-Channel" : Writing Cyberpunk
    Daniel Lewis - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Tank: reimagining the colonial North
    Kate Paine - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mother: Spectres of the Post-Industrial Narrative
    Yasmin Samira Mobayad - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The projection of the son: unreliable narration and masculinity
    Joshua Baird - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Interrogating Postfeminist Female Empowerment in Bestselling Post-millennial Young Adult Literature
    Heather Brown - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Flash Life: Exploring Female Understandings of Home Through Experimental Memoir
    Lynette Hinings-Marshall - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Clans and Tribes: attachment networks of older Australian women
    Kristin Henry - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Kind of Magic: Truthful Unreliable Minds in Contemporary Australian Storytelling
    Anna Michal Spargo-Ryan - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Cancer Poetry: Responding to loss through autopathography and elegy
    Heather Cameron - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Be a Good Sport
    David Ryan - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021