Alison Bartlett

Alison Bartlett has specialised in researching feminist literature, histories, cultures and pedagogies. She has been teaching English & Cultural Studies and also Gender Studies at UWA since 2005. Previously she taught literature at the University of Southern Queensland for ten years. She is a graduate of James Cook University of North Queensland with a BA Hons majoring in literature and history; a PhD applying French psychoanalytic feminist theory to contemporary Australian literary practices; and a GradCertEd (Tertiary). 

Alison has published books on Australian women's writing, and contemporary maternity, and edited books on Australian feminist objects, breastfeeding ethics, Australian literature, and postgraduate supervision, as well as editing journal issues on museum studies, social memory, breastfeeding culture, and women's writing. She has worked with the National Museum of Australia on representing the Australian women's movement, has been Chair of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association, and Editor of Outskirts online journal of feminist cultural studies since 2006.

2018 University of Edinburgh University, IASH Visiting Research Fellow

2018 World Universities Network Research Development Fund

2016 University of Bristol, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor 

2013 UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award

2009 National Museum of Australia

2006 University of Western Australia Research Award

2006 University of Western Australia Diversity Fund

1.  Flirting
A book coauthored with Rob Cover and Kyra Clarke will be published by Palgrave in 2019, giving some serious thought to the social relations and practices of flirting after #MeToo.

2. Activist Legacies
Current work on feminist, environmental, and scholarly activism appearing in:
Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene, Palgrave 2018  
Never Again: Reflections on Environmental Responsibility After Roe 8, UWAP 2017
Refiguring the Maternal, Routledge 2018
TEXT Journal 22(1), 2018
Outskirts Journal 37, 2017

3. Place and Music in OzLit
New work on literary relations of music and place in Australia is being presented at:
The Literary Interface conference, ANU July 2018
The Musicological Society of Australia's conference WAAPA Dec 2018

UNDERGRADUATE:
ENGL1902 Reading Bodies
GEND2902 Sex Bodies Spaces: Gender in Pop Culture
ENGL2801 Reading Popular Culture
ENGL3100 Australian Literature

POSTGRADUATE
SOCS5004 Doing Gendered Research

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION Completions
Jessica Taylor PhD 2016; Kyra Clarke PhD 2015; Gerit Haas PhD 2015; Gabrielle Everall PhD 2015;Martien van Julien PhD 2014; Angelika Riyandari PhD 2013; Claire Stubber PhD 2013; Suzie Handajani PhD 2010; Sophie Sunderland PhD 2009; Xiaoqui Kang DA 2007; Jing Wang DA 2007.

I am available for supervision of projects on Australian literature and culture, feminist theory and analysis.