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.  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, discourse, and practices of flirting after #MeToo, with an emphasis on Australian popular culture. Now available 

2. Activist Legacies
Current work on feminist, environmental, and scholarly activism is appearing in:

• 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

3. Place and Music in AustLit
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

ENGL1902 Reading Bodies
ENGL3300 Australian Literature
ENGL4107 Australian Literary Cultures
SOCS5004 Doing Gendered Research