EDUCATION
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2002
Monash University
B.A. (with honors), Comparative Literature, 1997
Monash University
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
"Assessing the Moral Landscape: Postcolonial Violence in Australian Cinema"
Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Violence and Masculinity in Postcolonial Films
(ed. Swaralipi Nandi and Esha Chatterjee; forthcoming from Zubaan Books)
"The Postcolonial Screen: Elaborate Forgeries in Rodney Hall`s The Second
Bridegroom" Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature Ed. Nathanael O?eilly.
Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2010: 237-253.
"A Subterranean Dialogue with Nietzsche on the Demonic and the Divine in The
Sea, the Sea" Iris Murdoch and Moral Imaginations Ed. Simone Roberts and
Alison Scott-Baumann. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2010: 190-202.
"The Politics of Voice in Palahniuk`s Lullaby" Reading Chuck Palahniuk:
American Monsters and Literary Mayhem Ed. Cynthia Kuhn and Lance Rubin.
New York: Routledge, 2009: 157-169.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"Fool That You Are: Subverting the Reader in Robbins`s Half Asleep in Frog
Pajamas?The Journal of Popular Culture (forthcoming 2012)
"The Transnational Fantasy: The Case of James Cowan" Antipodes: A Global
Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature (forthcoming December 2011)
"Postcolonial Impressions in Jonathan Bennett`s Verandah People" The Journal
of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming 2011)
"After the Victorians: The Historical Turning Point in McEwan`s On Chesil Beach"
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (forthcoming 2011)
"Misunderstanding the Other: Colonial Fantasies in Japanese Story" Antipodes:
A North American Journal of Australian Literature 23 (December 2009): 169-73.
"Be My Enemy for Friendship`s Sake: Iain Pears`s The Dream of Scipio" Critique:
Studies in Contemporary Fiction 48 (Spring 2007): 318-28.
"The Pornography of Destruction: Performing Annihilation in The Dying Animal"
Philip Roth Studies 3 (Spring 2007): 44-55.
"An Open Invitation, or How to Read the Ethics of Austen`s Pride and Prejudice"
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 29 (2007): 245-54.
"The Mandatory Proxy: Godard`s Vivre sa Vie" Biography: An Interdisciplinary
Quarterly 29 (Winter 2006): 43-53.
"The Impression of a Deeper Darkness: Ian McEwan`s Atonement" English
Studies in Canada 32 (March 2006): 147-60.
"Greeks and Germans: Rethinking D.H. Lawrence`s The Trespasser" Etudes
lawrenciennes 33 (2005): 253-68.
"Variations on a Theme: Performing Ishiguro`s The Unconsoled" Interactions 14
(Fall 2005): 77-88.
"Myth and Unity in Mansfield`s `At the Bay`" Journal of New Zealand Literature 23
(2005): 47-61.