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Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier

Emeritus Professor

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
c.ferrier@uq.edu.au

Overview

Carole Ferrier is a Professor of Literature and Women's Studies. Her research interests are in Women's and Gender Studies, and Critical and Cultural Studies, especially Black women authors; Australian women writers and Migrant writers; feminist and Marxist theory, and the theorising of race and ethnicity in relation to culture.

After gaining a BA Honours (London) and a PhD (Auckland), she moved in 1973 to teach in the Department of English (now the School of Communication and Arts) at The University of Queensland.

She was Director of the Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change Research Centre from the 1990s, and President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association in the late 90s and early 2000s. She has been convenor of Women's/Gender Studies at UQ since the early 1990s and contributed to the growth and development of the discipline in Australia and beyond. She was also instrumental in the founding of Creative Writing as an academic research discipline at the University, and served as Director of the Australian Studies Centre.

In 1975 she was the founding editor of one of the first international second-wave feminist journals, Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal , now in its forty-second volume, and also took over the editorship of the Australian Women's Book Review in 1999 (https://hecate.comunications-arts.uq.edu.au). She is also on the editorial boards of eight other national/ international journals.

She has published more than a hundred articles and book chapters, presented papers at seventy conferences in Australia and overseas, and regularly organised conferences at The University of Queensland. Books include: Gender, Politics and Fiction: Australian Women's Novels (UQP); The Janet Frame Reader (London: Women’s P); Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary (Melbourne UP); As Good As a Yarn with You; Letters Between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark (Cambridge UP); Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History (Melbourne: Vulgar P).

Research Interests

  • Comparative transnational study of the figure of the new woman in fiction of the early twentieth century.
    Book dealing with women writers from the United States, the United Kingdom. Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the former Commonwealth
  • Book on New Zealand women's fiction
    Collaborative project with Aorewa McLeod (Auckland) and Gina Wisker (Brighton)
  • Correspondence beween Vance and Nettie Palmer
    Critical edition of manuscript material
  • Australian Working Class Writing
    Anthology of published and unpublished literature

Research Impacts

Research impact has been particularly in relation to its advocacy of the writing of women and other disadvantaged groups and making this visible in cultural history and general history; influence on the formation of new alternative canons of literary and artistic value; (re)discovery of marginalised and silenced figures from the past and of their writing and lives. Wide circulation of Hecate journal, with many subscribers including hundreds of Universities and other institutions around the world, has put the University, Queensland and Australia on the map, from the 1970s.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Auckland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University College London

Publications

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Publications

Book

  • Radical Brisbane

    Evans, R. L. and Ferrier, C. eds. (2004). Radical Brisbane. 1 ed. Carlton North, Victoria, Australia: Vulgar Press.

  • Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary

    Ferrier, C. (1999). Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Book Chapter

  • Crossing borders and boundaries: ways of reading some contemporary Asian Australian women's fictions

    Ferrier, Carole (2013). Crossing borders and boundaries: ways of reading some contemporary Asian Australian women's fictions. Comparative Literature: East & West. (pp. 1-17) edited by Shunqing Cao. Chengdu, China: Sichuan University Press.

  • Teaching African American women's literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the deep north

    Ferrier, Carole (2010). Teaching African American women's literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the deep north. Teaching African American women's writing.. (pp. 137-156) edited by Gina Wisker. Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Introduction: Women's narratives of Queensland

    Ferrier, Carole and Jordan, Deborah (2009). Introduction: Women's narratives of Queensland. Hibiscus and ti-tree: Women in Queensland. (pp. 5-18) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan. St Lucia, Australia: Hecate Press.

  • Women's house, Brisbane

    Ferrier, Carole and Fuller, Diana (2009). Women's house, Brisbane. Hibiscus and ti-tree : Women in Queensland. (pp. 236-240) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan. St. Lucia, Qld.: Hecate Press.

  • Women's liberation, 1965

    Ferrier, Carole (2009). Women's liberation, 1965. Hibiscus and ti-tree : Women in Queensland. (pp. 225-229) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan.. St. Lucia, Qld.: Hecate Press.

  • 'Never forget that the Kanakas are men': Fictional representations of the enslaved black body

    Ferrier, Carole (2008). 'Never forget that the Kanakas are men': Fictional representations of the enslaved black body. Bodies and voices : The force-field of representation and discourse in colonial and postcolonial studies. (pp. 205-223) edited by Merete Falck Borch, Eva Rask Knudsen, Martin Leer and Bruce Clunies Ross. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York, United States of America: Rodopi B.V..

  • Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 - )

    Ferrier, C. (2006). Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 - ). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers, 1975 - 2000. (pp. 110-115) edited by S. Samuels. USA: Thomson Gale.

  • Afterword

    Ferrier, C. (2004). Afterword. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 317-321) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • Francis Adams

    Ferrier, C. (2004). Francis Adams. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 76-77) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • Indentured labour

    Ferrier, C. (2004). Indentured labour. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 51-55) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • Introduction

    Evans, R. L., Ferrier, C. and Rickertt, J. A. (2004). Introduction. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 14-18) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Victoria: The Vulgar Press.

  • Student revolt, 1960s and 1970s

    Ferrier, C. and Mansell, K. (2004). Student revolt, 1960s and 1970s. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 266-272) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • Women's house

    Ferrier, C. and Fuller, D. (2004). Women's house. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 285-290) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • Women's liberation

    Ferrier, C. (2004). Women's liberation. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 254-258) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • Women's suffrage struggles

    Ferrier, C. and Jordan, D. (2004). Women's suffrage struggles. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 102-109) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.

  • "These Girls on the Right Track" : Hardy, Devanny and Hewett

    Ferrier, C. (2003). "These Girls on the Right Track" : Hardy, Devanny and Hewett. Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment. (pp. 71-87) edited by P. Adams and C. Lee. Carlton North, Victoria, Australia: The Vulgar Press.

  • 'A whole other story vibrating within it': some approaches to the 'New Literatures'

    Ferrier, Carole (2002). 'A whole other story vibrating within it': some approaches to the 'New Literatures'. Crabtracks: progress and process in teaching the New Literatures in English. (pp. 111-140) edited by Collier, Gordon and Schulze-Engler, Frank. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

  • Jean Devanny (1894-1962)

    Ferrier, C. (2002). Jean Devanny (1894-1962). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1915-1950. (pp. 88-98) edited by S. Samuels. U.S.A.: Thomson Gale.

  • Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers

    Ferrier, C. (2002). Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers. Socialist Cultures East and West: A Post Cold War Reassessment. (pp. 139-147) edited by D. Juraga and M.K. Booker. Connecticut, USA: Praegar Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.

  • Sugar heaven and the reception of working class texts

    Ferrier, Carole (2002). Sugar heaven and the reception of working class texts. Sugar Heaven. (pp. 264-272) edited by Nicole Moore. Carlton North, Vic., Australia: Vulgar Press.

  • White blindfolds and black armbands: The uses of whiteness theory for reading Australian cultural production

    Ferrier, C. (1999). White blindfolds and black armbands: The uses of whiteness theory for reading Australian cultural production. Unmasking Whiteness. (pp. 68-78) edited by B. McKay. Brisbane: Qld Studies Cen..

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • The uses of whiteness theory in critical discourses of race

    Ferrier, C. (1999). The uses of whiteness theory in critical discourses of race. Australian Literature & the Public Sphere, Toowoomba, Univ. of Southern Qld, 3-7 July, 1998. Toowoomba: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Edited Outputs

Other Outputs

  • Savage Stead

    Ferrier, C. (2002, 07 06). Savage Stead The Courier-Mail

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Completed Supervision

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

Feminism, Suffrage - women, Fiction - female writers, Aboriginal writers, Women's studies, Politics and women, Hecate (women's journal), Society and women, Women - status, Australia - women's studies, Women and writing, Writing and women, Female authors - Australia, Socialism, Race, Ethnicity, Culture and politics, Gender studies, Equity, Protests in Brisbane, Janet Frame, Palmer, Nettie and Vance

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