ProfessorAnn Vickery
Professor, Writing and Literature
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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- Professor, Writing and LiteratureFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- +61 3 924 43960 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Ann has recently taught ALL202 Writing Modern Worlds, AAE900 Research Framing and Development, ALL784 Life Writing Now and ALL727 Sex, Body and American Poetry. In 2026, she will be teaching a new unit ALW727 Clued In: Crime Fiction and Film
She is particularly interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
• twentieth and twenty-first century poetries
• modernist literature
• reading and writing practices and ageing
• feminist literary history
• Australian literature and print culture
• Modern literary networks and coteries (eg. New York School)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFEATUREDThe Significance of Australian Womens Short Fiction in Ecofeminisms Emergence through Australian Periodicals (1975-1990)
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFEATUREDModalities of Jurispathy: Property, Polity, and the Settler-Colonial Georgic
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFEATUREDLineages of the Tide: Towards a Littoral Poetics
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFEATUREDMobile Image: Reading Modes of Vision in Forrest-Thomson and Guest
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFEATUREDIsmenes Survivable Resistance: Claiming Poetic Voice in the Contemporary Era
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFEATUREDIn the Age of Trump: The Ideological Function of Superheroes in Trump's America
- UNIT TAUGHTPresent units:
- UNIT TAUGHTALL202 Writing Modern Worlds; ALL727 Sex, the Body and American Poetry; ALL784 Life Writing Now
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPersephone: Love and Divine Comedy in the Work of Gillian Rose
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCulture in Story: How the Built World of a Fantasy Novel Assists in Exploring Genre
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLove, Patroclus: Achilles' Dilemma in Contemporary Screen Culture
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONHope through the Impossible: Reimagining Environmental Narratives through Speculative Fiction
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMedicine, Metaphor, Memory: Narratives of Menopause in the Twenty-first Century
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAustralian Elegy: Landscape and Identity
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLord of the ring: redressing the white oliphant
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION'spirit-music' Unbound: Romanticism and Print Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (1830-1905)
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPoetry and the Elegiac Self: A Creative Thesis with Exegesis
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONTell Me Something: The Poetics of Maternal Subjectivity
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPoetic Neologism in English from the Renaissance to Modernism
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDis-topias: The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children's Literature
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONTelling Trans: Reading Transgender Representation in Texts for Young People
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMythmaking and Masculinity in the Fiction of Norman Lindsay
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION"Dead-Channel" : Writing Cyberpunk
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Flash Life: Exploring Female Understandings of Home Through Experimental Memoir
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCultural Alliance and Relationality in Australian First Nations Intercultural Mainstream Theatre Rehearsal Practice