Dr Bernadette Brennan

BA Hons, PhD
Senior Lecturer

+61 2 9351 6853
Room N323, John Woolley Building (A20)

Current Research

An investigation of contemporary Australian memoirs as narratives of healing.

Publications

Books

• Brennan, B M 2008, Brian Castro's fiction: the seductive play of language, Cambria Press, Amherst, New York
• Brennan, B M 2008, Ethical investigations: Australian literature and poetics, Vagabond Press, Sydney
• Brennan, B M (ed) 2008, Just words? Australian authors writing for justice, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia

Journal Articles

• Brennan, B. Kim Cheng Boey’s Between Stations: “The Architecture of Memory”. Life Writing 10.4, 'Writing the Father' Special Themed Issue, Forthcoming
• Brennan, B. “Talking Amongst Ourselves: Auntie Rita, a Private and Public Conversation of Healing”. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Forthcoming
• Forthcoming in Antipodes December 2012.
  ‘Bodies of Knowledge: history, memory, selves in Tiger’s Eye’
• ‘Alone and in close company’: Reading and companionship in Brenda Walker’s Reading by Moonlight. Australian Literary Studies 27.1, May 2012, 62-75.
• Brennan, B M 2012, Frameworks of grief: Narrative as an act of healing in contemporary memoir. TEXT 16.1, April 2012
• Brennan, B M 2011, Singing it anew: David Malouf’s Ransom. JASAL Special Issue Archive Madness, 1-12
• Brennan, B M 2009, Tracing the spectre of death in Francis Webb's last poems, JASAL - Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 9, 1-12
• Brennan, B M 2009, Travelling towards ourselves: rights and recognition in Clara Law's Letters to Ali, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 3(1), 15-28
• Brennan, B M 2008, Literature and the intimate space of death, Antipodes: a North American Journal of Australian Literature, 22(2), 103-109
• Brennan, B M 2007, Riders in the Chariot: A Tale for Our Times, JASAL - Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 7, 32-45
• Brennan, B M 2007, Unpacking Castro's Library, or Detours and Return in The Garden Book, JASAL - Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2007 Special Issue, 25-36
• Brennan, B M 2006, Kim Mahood's 'Craft for a Dry Lake': A Work in Progress, Southerly, 66(1), 91-105
• Brennan, B M 2005, Recognizing the 'Face of Love' in Francis Webb's 'The Canticle', Antipodes: a North American Journal of Australian Literature, 19(1), 31-38

Book Chapters

• Brennan, B M 2010, Riders in the chariot: a tale for our times, Remembering Patrick White, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 19-33
• Brennan, B M 2008, Travelling towards ourselves: rights and recognition in Clara Law's 'Letters to Ali', Just words? Australian authors writing for justice, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 137-151

Areas of teaching and specific topics

Teaching

• Australian Literature (contemporary/modern)
• Literature and Ethics
• Critical Theory

Specific Topics

• Australian Literature and the Public Sphere
• Contemporary Australian film and drama
• Aboriginal literature, film and drama
• Stolen Generations narratives
• Francis Webb
• Brian Castro
• Postmodernism
• Lifewriting
• Narrative and Healing