Distinguished Professor Anthony Uhlmann
Interim Dean - School of Humanities & Communication Arts,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Distinguished Professor,
Humanities (Arts)
Biography
Anthony Uhlmann is Professor of Literature and Disciplinary Leader for English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. He is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre and was Director of the Centre from 2011-2019. He is the author of a novel Saint Antony in His Desert (UWAP, 2018). He is the authof of four scholarly monographs. His most recent book is J. M. Coetzee, Truth, Meaning, Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). He published Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (Bloomsbury) in 2011, and two monographs on Samuel Beckett: Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). He edited Gerald Murnane: New Essays (Sydney University Press, 2020). He co-edited Arnold Geulincx's Ethics with Samuel Beckett's Notes (Leiden: Brill, 2006) and Beckett in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). He was the editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies from 2007 until 2013. HIs work focuses on the exchanges that take place between literature and philosophy and the way in which literature itself is a kind of thinking about the world. He co-founded the Australian University Heads of English in 2012 and was elected President of this body in 2013. He is currently working on two projects: 'Other Worlds, Forms of World Literature' and another, with Moira Gatens, on Spinoza's influence on literary history and the importance of his philosophy to understandings of artistic practice.
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Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- MA Queen's University (Canada)
- BA University of Sydney
Professional Memberships
- Australian Academy of the Humanities (2017 - 2025)
- Modern Languages Association (2000 - 2020)
Interests
- Contemporary Literature
- J. M. Coetzee
- Literature and Philosophy
- Modernist Literature
- Samuel Beckett
- Spinoza
- The Value and Function of Literature
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
- Humanities (Arts)
Contact
| Email: | A.Uhlmann@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9368 |
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| Location: | EQ.G.28 Parramatta |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 102499 Writing Process, 2020
- 102626 Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 2020
Publications
Books
- Uhlmann, A. (2020), 'J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781501357473.
- Uhlmann, A. (2011), 'Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov', : Continuum International Publishing Group 9781441140562.
- Uhlmann, A. (2008), 'Beckett and Poststructuralism', : Cambridge University Press 0521052432.
- Uhlmann, A. (2006), 'Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image', : Cambridge Publishing 9780521865203.
- Geulincx, A., Van Ruler, H., Uhlmann, A. and Wilson, M. (2006), 'Arnold Geulincx Ethics With Samuel Beckett's Notes', : Brill Academic Publishers 9789004154674.
Chapters in Books
- Uhlmann, A. (2022), 'Introduction : Inner and Outer Worlds : Gail Jones' Fiction', Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction, Sydney University Press 9781743327791.
- Uhlmann, A. (2022), 'Resisting fixation in Gail Jones' Sorry and Five Bells', Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction, Sydney University Press 9781743327791.
- Uhlmann, A. (2021), 'Virginia Woolf's, The Waves, desire and ethology', Ethology: Claims and Limits of a Lost Discipline, Wilhelm Fink Verlag 9783770566532.
- Uhlmann, A. (2020), 'Affect, meaning, becoming, and power : Massumi, Spinoza, Deleuze, and neuroscience', Affect and Literature, Cambridge University Press 9781108424516.
- Uhlmann, A. (2020), 'Philosophies', The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetze, Cambridge University Press 9781108475341.
- Uhlmann, A. (2020), 'Reporting meaning in border districts', Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One, Sydney University Press 9781743326404.
- Uhlmann, A. (2018), 'The eyes of the mind : proportion in Spinoza, Swift, and Ibn Tufayl', Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio, Edinburgh University Press 9781474420433.
- Uhlmann, A. (2017), 'Creative intuition : Coetzee, Plato, Bergson, and Murnane', J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501318627.
- Rutherford, J. and Uhlmann, A. (2017), 'Introduction', J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501318627.
- Uhlmann, A. (2016), 'Suttree, Joyce, and Flaubert', Cormac McCarthy's Borders and Landscapes, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501319112.
- Uhlmann, A. (2015), 'Beckett's intertexts', The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett, Cambridge University Press 9781107427815.
- Uhlmann, A. (2015), 'Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze', Deleuze and Beckett, Palgrave Macmillan 9781137481139.
- Uhlmann, A. (2014), 'Thinking with the world : Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello', Mindful Aesthetics : Literature and the Science of the Mind, Bloomsbury Academic 9781441102867.
- Uhlmann, A. (2014), 'Beckett, Duthuit and ongoing dialogue', The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press 9780748675685.
- Uhlmann, A. (2014), 'Essays critical and clinical : the book as a 'whole'', Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury Academic 9781623563493.
- Uhlmann, A. (2013), 'Staging plays', Samuel Beckett in Context, Cambridge University Press 9781107017030.
- Uhlmann, A. (2013), 'Introduction', Samuel Beckett in Context, Cambridge University Press 9781107017030.
- Uhlmann, A. (2012), 'Le berceau et la berceuse (The cradle and the rocking chair)', Notes de Beckett sur Geulincx, Les Solitaires Intempestifs 9782846813501.
- Uhlmann, A. (2011), 'Cap au pire et le desir d'en avoir fini', Samuel Beckett 1: L'ascese du Sujet (=Samuel Beckett 1: The Asceticism of the Subject), Minard: Lettres Modernes 9782256911620.
- Uhlmann, A. (2011), 'Realism and Intertextuality in Coetzee's Foe', Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Continuum International Publishing Group 9781441105301.
- Uhlmann, A. (2011), 'Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology, and Art', Deleuze and Ethics, Edinburgh University Press 9780748641161.
- Uhlmann, A. (2011), 'Spinoza, Ratiocination, and Art', Spinoza Now, University of Minnesota Press 9780816672806.
- Uhlmann, A. (2010), 'Beckett and Philosophy', A Companion to Samuel Beckett, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405158695.
- Uhlmann, A. (2010), 'Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Aesthetics', The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press 9780748635528.
- Uhlmann, A. (2010), 'The Symbol in Patrick White', Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays, Rodopi 9789042028494.
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'The Sense of Jealousy in James Joyce's Exiles', Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Press 9781443801164.
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'Introduction', Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Press 9781443801164.
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'Expression and affect in Kleist, Beckett and Deleuze', Deleuze and Performance, Edinburgh University Press 9780748635047.
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett : thinking in literature', Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230201415.
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'Negative Allegory: Buning on Allegory and the Via Negativa', Where Never Before: Beckett's Poetics of Elsewhere, La poetique de l'ailleurs, Rodopi 9789042028142.
- Uhlmann, A. (2008), 'Withholding Assent: Beckett in the Light of Stoic Ethics', Beckett and Ethics, Continuum International Publishing Group 9780826498366.
- Uhlmann, A. (2008), 'Image and Disposition in Beckett's Late Plays', Borderless Beckett/Beckett sans frontieres, Rodopi Press 9789042023932.
- Uhlmann, A. and Gontarski, S. (2006), 'Afterimages: Introducing Beckett's Ghosts', Beckett after Beckett, University Press of Florida 9780813029092.
- Uhlmann, A. (2006), 'Samuel Beckett and the Occluded Image', Beckett after Beckett, University Press of Florida 9780813029092.
- Uhlmann, A. (2006), 'L'Image de la Pensee: Cogito Nescio', Presence de Samuel Beckett (Presence of Samuel Beckett), Rodopi 9042021179.
- Uhlmann, A. (2004), 'A Fragment of a Vitagraph: Hiding and Revealing in Beckett, Geulincx, and Descartes', After Beckett/D'apr'es Beckett, Rodopi Press 9042019727.
- Uhlmann, A., Houppermans, S. and Clement, B. (2004), 'Introduction/ Avant Propos', After Beckett/D'Apr'es Beckett, Rodopi Press 9042019727.
Journal Articles
- Uhlmann, A. (2023), 'The precarious author, diary of a bad year, slow man', Journal of Modern Literature, vol 46, no 2 , pp 55 - 67.
- Uhlmann, A. (2022), 'Reader, mark my meaning [Book review]', Sydney Review of Books, vol May 23, 2022 .
- Uhlmann, A. (2022), 'Alexis Wright, "Relation" in Carpentaria as a contribution to thinking decolonisation and ecopoetics', Frontiers in Asia-Pacific Language and Culture Studies, vol 1, no 1 , pp 61 - 68.
- Uhlmann, A. (2021), 'Beckett and the sub specie aeternitatis vision', Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd'hui, vol 33, no 1 , pp 71 - 87.
- Uhlmann, A. and Gatens, M. (2020), 'Spinoza on art and the cultivation of a disposition toward joyful living', Intellectual History Review, vol 30, no 3 , pp 429 - 445.
- Jewell, M., Morley, R. and Uhlmann, A. (2019), 'New writing in an aged care setting', New Writing, vol 16, no 2 , pp 206 - 219.
- Uhlmann, A. (2019), 'Spinoza, aesthetics, and Percy Shelley's 'A Defence of Poetry'', Textual Practice, vol 33, no 5 , pp 721 - 738.
- Uhlmann, A. (2017), 'Denaturing knowledge in Texts for Nothing', Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd'hui, vol 29, no 1 , pp 117 - 125.
- Uhlmann, A. (2017), 'Approaches to the (Beckett) archives : Popper, Coetzee, and scientific validity', Journal of Beckett Studies, vol 26, no 1 , pp 103 - 117.
- Uhlmann, A. (2016), 'Dusklands and the meaning of method', Textual Practice, vol 30, no 3 , pp 399 - 415.
- Uhlmann, A. (2016), 'Process and method in Waiting for the Barbarians', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol 58, no 4 , pp 435 - 450.
- Macris, A. and Uhlmann, A. (2015), 'Perception and sensation in the capital novels : representing the city in literature', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol 5, no 1 .
- Uhlmann, A. (2015), 'Silence and sound in the sentences of Gerald Murnane's A Million Windows', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol 15, no 1 .
- Uhlmann, A. (2015), 'Cap au pire, Parmenide et la limite', Roman 20-50, vol 60 , pp 121 - 131.
- Uhlmann, A. (2014), 'Excess as Ek-stasis Coetzee's the Master of Petersburg and Giving Offense', Comparatist, vol 38 , pp 54 - 69.
- Uhlmann, A. (2013), 'Where literary studies is, and what it does', Australian Literary Studies, vol 28, no 1-2 , pp 98 - 110.
- Uhlmann, A. (2013), 'Signs for the soul', Sydney Review of Books, .
- Uhlmann, A. (2012), 'J. M. Coetzee and the uses of anachronism in Summertime', Textual Practice, vol 26, no 4 , pp 747 - 761.
- Uhlmann, A. (2012), 'Allegorie et via negativa dans l'uvre de Samuel Beckett', Litterture, vol 167 , pp 41 - 50.
- Uhlmann, A. (2011), 'Worstward Ho, Parmenides, Badiou and the Limit', Journal of Beckett Studies, vol 20, no 1 , pp 78 - 95.
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'Try what? I don't know. To continue', The Journal of Beckett Studies, vol 17, no 1-2 .
- Uhlmann, A. (2009), 'Beckett at 100: Revolving it All (review)', M O D E R N I S M / modernity, vol 16, no 1 , pp 191 - 192.
- Uhlmann, A. (2004), 'Image and Intuition in Beckett's "Film"', SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, vol 33, no 2 , pp 90 - 106.
- Uhlmann, A. (2004), 'Representation and Presentation: the Deleuzian image', Angelaki, vol 9, no 3 , pp 187 - 197.
Other Publications
- 2018, 'Saint Antony in His Desert', Published Work
Current Projects
| Title: | `Like the Thunder': Seeing Stories in Gulf Country |
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| Western Researchers: | Alexis Wright and Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2024-01-01 - 2026-12-31 |
| ID: | P00028716 |
Previous Projects
| Title: | In Restrospect: A Digital Resource of Nineteenth-Century Australian Women Writers |
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| Western Researchers: | Tracy Olverson and Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2013-09-09 - 2015-02-28 |
| ID: | P00021742 |
| Title: | 'Vladimir Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon: Temporal Affinities' |
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| Western Researchers: | James Gourley and Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2013-09-09 - 2014-11-09 |
| ID: | P00021740 |
| Title: | Samuel Beckett and the Ethics of Arnold Geulinex |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2001-01-01 - 2003-12-31 |
| ID: | P0009376 |
| Title: | The image and the cliche: Literature as a way of thinking |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2004-03-28 - 2005-03-27 |
| ID: | P0014012 |
| Title: | Beckett Editing Project |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2007-06-05 - 2008-06-04 |
| ID: | P0015654 |
| Title: | Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann, Alexis Wright, Ben Etherington and Gail Jones |
| Years: | 2017-03-15 - 2023-03-15 |
| ID: | P00023265 |
| Title: | Spinoza and Literature for Life: a Practical Theory of Art [via USYD] |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2017-02-16 - 2021-12-31 |
| ID: | P00023213 |
| Title: | The Image of Thought: Literature as a way of thinking (DP0559731) |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2005-01-18 - 2008-03-31 |
| ID: | P0009956 |
| Title: | WestWords Young People's Literature Project |
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| Western Researchers: | Mohammed Ahmad and Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2016-03-17 - 2016-11-18 |
| ID: | P00024278 |
| Title: | China Australia Literary Forum 3 |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2015-11-03 - 2016-09-23 |
| ID: | P00022979 |
| Title: | Creating Literature in Western Sydney |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2016-12-01 - 2020-01-18 |
| ID: | P00023562 |
| Title: | Ageing Creatively: Creative Writing as a Tool for Healthy Ageing |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann, Paul Arthur, Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Esther Chang, Hazel Smith, Jason Ensor, Rachel Hendery, Rachel Morley and Melinda Jewell |
| Years: | 2015-03-01 - 2016-06-30 |
| ID: | P00022526 |
| Title: | Spinoza and Narrative |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann and Kiarina Kordela |
| Years: | 2010-11-17 - 2012-04-30 |
| ID: | P00019557 |
| Title: | J.M. Coetzee and Making Sense in Literature |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann |
| Years: | 2014-05-06 - 2017-05-05 |
| ID: | P00021493 |
Supervision
Distinguished Professor Uhlmann is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | The Process and Issues Encountered and Dealt with in the Translation of Comtemporary Chinese Inner Mongolain Novels: An Exegesis and Accompanying Translation of a Novel |
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| Thesis Title: | The McMillan Diaries: Exploring the Gippsland Massacres through Historiographic Metafiction |
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| Thesis Title: | Solitary and Starlit: Wandering in the Works of Cormac McCarthy |
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| Thesis Title: | Real and Imagined Birds: Constructing Meaning in Writings on Grief |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Waking Persephone - novel and exegesis |
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| Thesis Title: | The Concept of Dance in Nietzsche and its Articulation with German Aesthetics and German Romanticism |
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Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | So Many Selves |
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| Field of Research: | Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | The composition of James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". |
| Field of Research: | Literature |
| Thesis Title: | Becoming Angel: Subtle Bodies, Aesthetics and Ethics |
| Field of Research: | Fine Arts |
| Thesis Title: | The Secular Wood: Literary Criticism in the Public Sphere |
| Field of Research: | Literature |
| Thesis Title: | "The Pure Event"-Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo |
| Field of Research: | Studies In Human Society, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Gestural Sense: Art, Neuroscience and Linguistic Embodiment |
| Field of Research: | Studies In Human Society, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | "Just Enough Still to Joy": Beckett, Lacan and the Jouissance of Writing a Little Real |
| Field of Research: | Literature; Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | `You as You Always Were?: Samuel Beckett and Kantian Critical Philosophy |
| Field of Research: | Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Creation and the Function of Art |
| Field of Research: | Philosophy; Other Creative Arts; Creative Arts, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | A Mother (A)Rosa: Anais Nin and Reconceiving Subjective Birth |
| Field of Research: | Literature; Philosophy; Other Society And Culture; Studies In Human Society, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | From Robert Frost to Cognitive Poetics: A Theory of Poetic Experience |
| Field of Research: | Literature; Philosophy; Language And Literature |
| Thesis Title: | "Wanderers like the Stars at Which They Gaze": Suttree's Ever-moving Figures after Ulysses |
| Field of Research: | History; Literature; Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Worshipping the Household Gods: Dickens and Domesticity |
| Field of Research: | History; Literature; Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality |
| Field of Research: | Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Seculum, An Epic Trilogy in Verse by Peter Dale Scott: ?The Poem as Structure for a New Dawn? |
| Field of Research: | Religious Studies; Literature; Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | An examination of the narrative devices employed in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones |
| Field of Research: | Literature |
Media
| Title: | Other Worlds Forms of World Literature |
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| Description: | ARC Project |
| Title: | What Where, TV play by Samuel Beckett |
| Description: | Producer of Film |