Associate Professor Anne Jamison

Deputy Director,
Writing and Society Research Centre

Associate Professor,
Humanities (Arts)

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Biography

Anne Jamison is a feminist literary critic with a research focus on nineteenth-century Irish women's writing. She is currently Associate Professor in English in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, as well as Deputy Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre. She has published broadly on nineteenth-century Irish writing, including research on Alicia Lefanu, Kate O'Brien, Frances Browne, James Clarence Mangan and Hannah Boyd, as well as on the intersections between law, literature and authorship in the early Victorian period. She published a monograph in 2016 with Cork University Press on collaborative Irish writers Edith Somerville and Violet Martin: E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross; Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration. Anne is currently working on a book-length project on Irish women's fantasy and fairy tale writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and has recently been awarded a Keough-Naughton Library Award in Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA) to support this work.

Anne completed her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at the University of St. Andrews (UK) before proceeding to an MA in Irish Writing at Queen's University Belfast (UK), and a subsequent Ph.D. at the same institution. Prior to joining Western Sydney University, Anne was Lecturer in Irish Literature at the University of Ulster (UK) and REF Coordinator for the English Research Unit of Assessment. She has also previously worked as Research Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast, as well as Visiting Fellow in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Limerick (Ireland). Anne relocated to Australia in 2013.

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Qualifications

PhD Queens University of Belfast (UK)
MA Eng (Irish Writ) Queens University of Belfast (UK)

Professional Memberships

International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (2001)

Awards

State Library of NSW Nancy Keesing Fellowship 2016-01-01
Visiting Fellow, University of Limerick 2005-01-01
Keough-Naughton Library Award for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame 2023-01-01

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Writing and Society Research Centre
Humanities (Arts)

Committees

Equity and Diversity Working Party

Contact

Email:	A.Jamison@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:	(02) 9772 6197
Mobile:
Location:	EQ.G.27 Parramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

COMM1004 Approaches to Text, 2023
LANG2039 Sexual/Textual Politics in Victorian Women's Writing, 2023

Publications

Books

Jamison, A. (2016), 'E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross : female authorship and literary collaboration', : Cork University Press 9781782051923.

Chapters in Books

Jamison, A. (2020), '"Hunters in red coats" : the Irish new girl in Edith Somerville's "Little Red Riding-Hood in Kerry" (1934)', Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the 20th Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives, Edward Everett Root Publishers 9781911454212.
Jamison, A. (2018), 'Female desire, colonial Ireland, and the "limits of the possible" in E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross's The Silver Fox', The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s, Routledge 9780815364023.
Jamison, A. (2014), 'The spiritual 'vastation' of James Clarence Mangan : magic, technology, and identity', Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak, Palgrave 9781137273376.
Jamison, A. (2005), 'Theatricality and the Irish R. M. : comic country house dramatics versus Abbey Theatre ideology', New Voices in Irish Criticism 5, Four Courts Press 9781851828562.

Journal Articles

Bowyer, D., Dietz, M., Jamison, A., Taylor, C., Gyengesi, E., Ross, J., Hammond, H., Ogbeide, A. and Dune, T. (2022), 'Academic mothers, professional identity and COVID-19 : feminist reflections on career cycles, progression and practice', Gender, Work and Organization, vol 29, no 1 , pp 309 - 341.
Jamison, A. (2022), 'Female development and fairy tale transformations in Frances Browne's Granny's wonderful chair, and its Tales of fairy times (1856)', Irish University Review, vol 52, no 2 , pp 234 - 249.
Jamison, A. (2021), 'Irish Protestant colonialism and educational ideology in Australia : Hannah Boyd's letters on education (1848)', Australian Literary Studies, vol 36, no 2 .
Jamison, A. (2018), 'Economies of childhood in nineteenth-century Australia : Catherine Helen Spence's short fiction for children', Australian Literary Studies, vol 33, no 2 .
Jamison, A. (2017), 'Women's literary history in Ireland : digitizing The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing', Women's History Review, vol 26, no 5 , pp 751 - 765.
Jamison, A. (2017), 'Periodicals for schools in nineteenth-century Australia : Catherine Helen Spence and the Children's Hour', Victorian Periodicals Review, vol 50, no 4 , pp 721 - 736.
Jamison, A. (2013), 'Children's susceptible minds : Alicia Lefanu and the "reasoned imagination" in Georgian children's literature', Studies in Romanticism, vol 52, no Winter , pp 585 - 609.
Jamison, A. (2012), ''Travels of memory, imagination and fact' : Kate O'Brien's archival notes', Irish University Review, vol 42, no 2 , pp 254 - 272.
Jamison, A. (2011), 'Copyright and collaboration : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the debate over literary property', Romanticism, vol 17, no 2 , pp 209 - 221.
Jamison, A. (2008), 'Plagiarism, popularity and the dilemma of artistic worth : E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross's Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899)', European Journal for English Studies, vol 11, no 1 , pp 65 - 78.
Jamison, A. (2006), 'Collaboration v. imitation : authorship and the law', Law and Literature, vol 18, no 2 , pp 199 - 224.
Jamison, A. (2004), 'Sitting on "The Outer Skin" : Somerville and Ross's Through Connemara in a Governess Cart as a coded stratum of linguistic/feminist "Union" ideals', Eire-Ireland, vol 39, no 2 , pp 110 - 135.

Anne is currently Deputy Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre. Her main research interests are in nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture, with a particular focus on Irish women's writing. She is currently working on a book-length project on Irish women's fantasy and fairy tale fiction for children in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including work on Alicia Le Fanu, Edith Somerville, Frances Browne, Winifred Letts and Rosa Mulholland. This work is being supported in 2023 through a Keough-Naughton Library Award in Irish Studies which will enable a research trip to the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame to consult the library's specialist Irish collections.

Irish Women's Writing

Anne was also Nancy Keesing Fellow for 2016 at the State Library of NSW. Her project involved comparative research between nineteenth-century Irish and Australian children's literature and education. One of the major outcomes of the project was an online exhibition in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast, National Museums Northern Ireland and the State Library of NSW. The project further included the coordination of an essay series by contemporary writers for the Sydney Review of Books on nineteenth-century Australian female authors: Barbara Baynton by Fiona Wright, Rosa Praed by Jessica White and Catherine Helen Spence by Maggie McKellar.

Anne has previously curated a physical exhibition of the manuscript papers of Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, in 2006. A catalogue of the original exhibition can be viewed online and parts of it are now available as a digital exhibition.

Anne was also involved in the Field Day/JSTOR Project. This project aimed to digitize volumes 4 and 5 of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing and make these volumes available on the JSTOR online hub as part of the existing JSTOR Ireland collection. The project was coordinated in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast, JSTOR, Field Day, University of Ulster and the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, and was completed in 2021.

Postgraduate Supervision

She has published and researched in the following areas and would weclome postgraduate research proposals in any of these fields:

nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture;
Irish women's writing;
female collaboration and literary production;
nineteenth-century Australian women's writing;
feminist historiography and the digital humanities.