Dr Melissa Hardie

BA, PhD
Senior Lecturer

+61 2 9351 7737
Room N409, John Woolley Building (A20)

At the moment I'm writing a book on true crime and the remediation of "fact" in a variety of genres and modes. I've recently written and published on televisual representations of crime in procedurals like Law and Order and Cold Case; Patty Jenkins' film Monster, representations of criminal ecologies and the Boston Strangler; Kitty Genovese. I'm currently working on a genealogy of true crime writing through the Gothic, analysing representations of mental state and criminal intent: "cold blood." I'm also pursuing work on the avant-garde and testimony through the work of Charles Reznikoff, Gary Indiana, and others. Historically my research has been contoured by an interest in psychoanalysis, rhetoric, deconstruction, and queer theory, and a specialisation in Modernism and Contemporary writing and film.

Publications 2005-2011

Journal articles

• Hardie, M J (ed) 2010, Women and Crime: Guest Editor, Special Issue, Australian Feminist Studies, 25(65)
• Hardie, M J 2010, Dead spots in the case of Kitty Genovese, Australian Feminist Studies, 25(65), 337-351
• Hardie, M J 2010, Women and crime, Australian Feminist Studies, 25(65), 261-263
• Hardie, M J 2010, The closet remediated: inside Lindsay Lohan, Australian Humanities Review, 48, 55-70
• Hardie, M J 2006, Cold Case: Ripped from the Headlines, Flow, 5(2)
• Hardie, M J 2005, Repulsive Modernism: Djuna Barnes' The Book of Repulsive Women, Journal of Modern Literature, 29(1), 118-132

Book chapters

• Hardie, M J 2007, Late Modern Blog, What is the New Rhetoric?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 140-153
• Hardie, M J 2007, Torque: Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, and Authentic Feeling in the Smoky Mountains, The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nations, and Self, Lexington Books, USA, 1, 23-37
• Hardie, M J 2006, Shame Became Famous: Ellen and Anne's Coming Out, Women Making Time, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 28-39

Conference proceedings

• Hardie, M J 2010, Cinematic belonging - attaching to the blockbuster, Scoping the Syllabus: English Association English Teachers' Conference 2010, The English Association Sydney, Sydney, 51-57
• Hardie, M J 2009, Watching the Detectives: Teaching Crime Writing with Hitchcock, James and Ondaatje, English Association English Teachers' Conference 2009, The English Association Sydney, Sydney, 97-107
• Hardie, M J 2008, Panic stations: post-war experience and writing after the bomb, New Directions: the English Association English Teachers' Conference 2008, The English Association Sydney, Sydney, 96-109

Areas of teaching and specific topics

Teaching

• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century textual studies
• cultural studies
• critical theory
• queer theory
• theories of cultural difference
• rhetoric
• psychoanalysis.