Alison Bartlett

Alison Bartlett has specialised in the interesections of literary and gender analysis though literary, cultural, material, and pedagogical fields. 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, maternal culture, and social cultures in the era of #metoo; she has 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.

1. Activist Legacies

Current work on feminist, environmental, and scholarly activism is appearing in:

• Feminist Protest Camps, edited by Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett. Bristol UP, forthcoming 2022
• The Sound of Lamentation:Hearing Maternal Academic Subjects, in (Re)Birthing the Feminine: Creating a Spaces of Motherhood in Academe, Palgrave 2020
• Feminist Heritage Walks. Gender, Place & Culture journal, 2019
• Situating the 1980s Australian women's peace camps. Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene, Palgrave 2018  
• Never Again: Reflections on Environmental Responsibility After Roe 8, UWAP 2017
• Postmatneral times and raidcal feminist thinking. Refiguring the Maternal, Routledge 2018
• Highways, activism, and Solastalgia. TEXT Journal 22(1), 2018
• In Search of Activism, Feminism, and Life in the Neoliberal University Outskirts 37, 2017

2. Australian Literature

• Gendering Australian Literature. In The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, ed. Jessica Gildersleeve. Routledge 2021.
• Reading the 'Gold Coast Symphony' in Thea Astley's The Acolyte. Queensland Review 26.2 2019.

No longer teaching