ProfessorLyn Mc Credden

My teaching focuses on Australian poetry, fiction & film; issues of sacredness
and literature, ideology and literature, & the discipline of Literary Studies.
Authors I have taught recently include: Judith Wright, Les Murray, Patrick
White, Tim Winton, Miles Franklin, Christos Tsiolkas, Ania Walwicz, Tony
Birch, Lionel Fogarty, Kim Scott.

I am interested in the literary/cultural theory of Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan,
Eagleton, David Jasper, Kevin Hart, Bill Ashcroft, Gayatri Spivak, Levinas.

I welcome Higher Degree Students in the areas of contemporary poetry,
Australian literature, Indigenous writing and issues of the sacred in
literature.

Expertise Summary
The category of "religion" listed below, does not indicate my interest in what
I, and many others, have called "the sacred". This latter - the trace of what
human beings seek, in the multiple modes of making meaning, is what I am
interested in; and the ways this is registered in literature. I read theory,
theology, poetry and fiction, investigating the ways in which human beliefs,
desires, hopes and fears are manifest in and beyond individual voice. Hence,
community, ritual, worship and the search for profound meaning is what the
category of sacredness indicates.
- Arts, the
- Australia
- Higher education
- Literature
- Literature & creative writing
- Religion