Dr Bruce Gardiner

PhD Prin BA
Senior Lecturer

+61 2 9351 6857
Room S321, John Woolley Building (A20)

Current and Enduring Interests

• Education and erudition: bibliography, quotation, citation, and plagiarism; the history of expository and ratiocinative English prose.
• Literature and Scripture; reading, reverie, and dreaming; surrealism, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology.
• Poetry and poetics, medieval to contemporary: literary thematics; regional and local traditions; the poetics of prose; ut pictura poesis; and voice and image in poetry and communications technologies.
• American literatures: Meso-American, Native American, African American, and Caribbean; and the literary traditions of New York State, New England, New Mexico, and the Tidewater South.
• Literature and royal courts (in England, France, and Japan), literary households (Romantic and Victorian), avant-gardes (Decadent and Modernist), and cities (New York and New Orleans).

Research Group

Nineteenth-Century Studies
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies group