Tanya Dalziell, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Professor Tanya Dalziell is as Fellow the Australian Academy of the Humanities and teaches and researches in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia, where she is the Chair of the Department of English and Cultural Studies. With Paul Genoni, she was the recipient of the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for the book Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamesrs and Drifts on Hydra, 1955-1964 (2018), which is being made into a feature film. Her first monograph, Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (2005) was awarded the Walter McCrae Russell Award (2005) for the best book of Australian literary criticism. She’s also the author of over 50 academic essays including chapters for The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009); The Oxford History of the World Novel in English (2016); The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature: Oceania (2017); The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (2020). An article she co-wrote with Paul Genoni was selected for The Conversation Yearbook 2019 (Melbourne UP). With Julieanne Lamond, she co-edits the Australian Literary Studies journal and is a past co-editor (with Paul Genoni) of the Journal for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. She serves on the executive of the Australian University Heads of English Group and is Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Her latest books include Gail Jones: Word, Image. Ethics (2020) and Joan London (2024)

Nineteenth and Twentieth century literature
Postcolonial studies

Literary Theory
Cinema studies
Modernism
Australian literature and film