Associate Professor John Attridge

My Expertise

My main research field is modernist literature, with particular focuses on modernist conceptions of authorship, the relationship between literature and specialization, modernist responses to new media, and the cultural history of trust. I am co-editor of two collections of essays: Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art (2019) and Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust, and Deception (2013). My essays have appeared in journals such ELH, Modernism/modernity, Modern Fiction Studies and NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, as well as in several edited books.

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Fields of Research (FoR)

British and Irish Literature, North American Literature, Literature in French, Comparative Literature Studies

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Biography

I am an Associate Professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media. Most of my research deals with modernist fiction; particular focuses include modernist conceptions of authorship, the relationship between literature and specialization, technological media and the cultural history of trust. My articles have appeared in journals such as ELH, Modernism/modernity, NOVEL and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as in several edited...view more

My Awards

Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence 2019

ANU Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2016

Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award 2010

Harry Ransom Center Fellow 2009-10

Australian Postgraduate Award

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

I welcome proposals for Honours and PhD theses in any area of modernist and contemporary literature, but especially topics that intersect with one of the research areas outlined in the above bio.

Past PhD supervisions

Jasmin Kelaita, "Of house and home: Architectural subjectivity in the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, and Christina Stead" (2018)

James Dutton, "Signed Proust: Derrida, Deleuze and the remains of textual becoming[ ]" (2018)

Helen Rydstrand, "Rhythmic Modernism: the mimesis of life itself in the short fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf" (2016)

Past Masters supervisions

Roland Alexander, "'On the rack': shame and imperialism in Robert Louis Stevenson" (2015)

My Engagement

"How Joseph Conrad's imperial horror story Heart of Darkness resonates with our globalised times". The Conversation, 23 May 2018.

My Teaching

I convene "ARTS2036 Modernism Text and Screen" and "ARTS3054 The Getting of Wisdom: Youth, Literature and the Formation of the Self". I welcome PhD and Honours projects on literary modernism broadly defined, and especially any of the research areas listed in this profile.

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