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Dr Fiona Giles

Dr Fiona Giles

D.Phil (Oxon)
MA Hons 1 (Melbourne)
BA Hons 1 (UWA)

Phone: +61 2 9036 6272

Address: Room 210, Reception, Level 2, Footbridge Theatre Terrace
Access adjacent to Footbridge Theatre and Footbridge over Parramatta Road
A09a - Footbridge Theatre

Email: .

Consultation Times
On leave semester 1/2012

Research Interests

  • Media and the body
  • Literary journalism: history, theory and practice
  • Feature writing and the genres of journalism
  • Writing, editing and publishing pedagogies
  • Adult uses of human milk
  • Media representations of breastfeeding and embodied parenting
  • Health communication
  • The ethics of advertising

Publications

  • [Book] Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts , NY: Simon and Schuster; Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2003
  • [Book] (Ed) Chick For A Day: What Would You Do If You Were One? , New York: Simon and Schuster; Sydney: Social Change, Australia, 2000
  • [Book] Too Far Everywhere: Situating the Heroine in Nineteenth Century Australian Fiction , St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998
  • [Book] (Ed) Dick For A Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? , New York: Villard; Sydney: Random House, 1997
  • [Book] (Ed) Melanie Sydney: Picador Australia, 1990
  • [Book](Ed) From the Verandah: Stories of Love and Landscape by Nineteenth Century Australian Women , Ringwood, Melbourne: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1987
  • [Research Report] Discrimination and Vilification in Advertising: A Report Produced by the Advertising Standards Bureau, by Dr Fiona Giles and Jenni Whelan, Canberra: Advertising Standards Bureau, 2009
  • [Chapter 2011 in Press] “’Reinstating Pleasure in Reality’: Promoting Breastfeeding Through Ars Erotica” in Breastfeeding and Feminism: New Ways Forward in Public Health, Bernice Hausman, Paige Hall-Smith and Miriam Labbok (eds), New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
  • [Chapter] “From ‘Gift of Loss’ to Self Care: The Significance of Induced Lactation in Takashi Miike’s Visitor Q” in Rhonda Shaw and Alison Bartlett (eds), Giving Breast Milk: Body Ethics and Contemporary Breastfeeding Practice, Toronto: Demeter Press, 2010
  • [Chapter] “The Uses of Pleasure: Reconfiguring Lactation, Sexuality and Mothering” in Julie Kelso and Marie Porter (eds), Maternal Realities: Corpo-‘Realities’, Psycho-‘Realities’, Socio-Economic ‘Realities’, Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008
  • [Chapter] “The Tears of Lacteros: Integrating the Meanings of the Human Breast” Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality , Ivan Crozier and Christopher Forth (eds), London: Lexington Books, 2005, pp. 123-141
  • [Chapter] “Fountains of Love and Loveliness: In Praise of the Dripping Wet Breast”, in Mother Matters: Motherhood As Discourse and Practice , Andrea O’Reilly (ed), Toronto: Association for Research on Mothering, 2004, pp. 37-49
  • [Chapter] “Dicklove” in Nerve: Literate Smut, Fiction, Essays and Photographs from Some of Today’s Most Provocative Writers and Artists Genevieve Field and Rufus Griscom (eds), New York: Broadway Books, 1998, pp. 133-136
  • [Chapter] “Two Breasts, Twelve Weeks”, in Motherlove 2 , Debra Adelaide (ed), Sydney: Random House, 1997, pp. 151-172
  • [Article] “The Well-Tempered Breast: Fostering Fluidity in Sexual Relations” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue on Body Modification Vol. 34, Nos 3-4, April-June 2005, pp. 301-26
  • [Article] “Introduction: Taking Our Breasts to Work” (With Alison Bartlett) Australian Feminist Studies, Special Issue: Meanings of Breastmilk: New Feminist Flavours , Alison Bartlett and Fiona Giles, (eds), Vol. 19, No. 45, November 2004, pp. 269-271
  • [Article] “Relational And Strange: A Preliminary Foray Into A Project to Queer Breastfeeding” Australian Feminist Studies, Special Issue: Meanings of Breastmilk: New Feminist Flavours , Alison Bartlett and Fiona Giles, (eds), Vol. 19, No. 45, November, pp. 301-314
  • [Article] “Getting Messy: Refusing Boundaries in Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts” Antithesis , Vol. 14, 2004, p. 178
  • [Article] “Walking Among Ghosts: An Interview with Lily Brett” Meanjin , Vol. 59, No. 1, 2000, pp. 54-69
  • [Article] “Finding a Shiftingness: Situating the Nineteenth Century Anglo-Australian Female Subject” New Literatures Review , 18, Winter South, 1989, pp. 10-19
  • [Article] “Letter from Oxford” Antithesis , Vol. 1, No. 1, 1987, pp. 37-42

Current Supervising Postgraduates

Joseph Brennan “I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy”: new approaches to slash fiction
Catherine Davies Curdle: Notes on a Practice and Performance of Induced Lactation
Nicholas Goodwin Finding Effective Change Agents : How a sense of community moderates the success of social marketing programs
Fran Hagon “Just Take Two and Off You Go”: The Representation of the Use of Medicines in TV medical Drama
Will Roberts The New New Magic Writing Machines: Trouble Brews in the Concoction of Fiction, Faction and Fact.