Select Publications

Books

Olubas B, 2022, Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life, US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; UK: Virago; Australia: Hachette, https://www.hachette.com.au/brigitta-olubas/shirley-hazzard-a-writing-life

Olubas B, 2012, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, Cambria Press, Amherst, NY, http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=4&bid=504

Book Chapters

McMahon E; Olubas B, 2021, 'Introduction', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Antigone Kefala New Australian Modernities, University Of Western Australia Press, Perth, pp. 1 - 18

Olubas B, 2021, '‘We Had Nowhere To Go’: Artist Friendships and Migrant Poetics in the Work of Jurgis and Jolanta Janavicius', in Olubas B; McMahon E (ed.), Antigone Kefala: New Australian Modernities

Olubas B; McMahon E, 2021, 'Introduction: "Something as Foreign as Myself"', in Antigone Kefala: New Australian Modernities

McMahon E, 2021, 'Worldly interiors in the Fiction of Antigone Kefala', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Antigone Kefala: New Australian Modernities, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, pp. 51 - 68

Olubas B, 2020, 'Like/Unlike', in The Novels of Alex Miller, Routledge, pp. 89 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003118138-7

Olubas B, 2017, '"Addiction, Fire, and the Face in The Catherine Wheel"', in McMahon EN; Olubas B (ed.), Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 99 - 108

McMahon EN; Olubas B, 2017, '"Rediscovering Again: Reading Elizabeth Harrower Across Time"', in McMahon EN; Olubas B (ed.), Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 1 - 7

Olubas B, 2017, 'Literature, Literary Ethics, and the Global Contexts of Australian Literature: Teaching Nam Le's The Boat', in Birns N; Moore N; Shieff S (ed.), Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, Modern Language Association of America, New York, pp. 190 - 198, https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-Australian-and-New-Zealand-Literature

Olubas B, 2016, 'Introduction: Shirley Hazzard – Author, Amateur, Intellectual', in We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think, Columbia University Press, pp. ix - xxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/hazz17326-002

Olubas B, 2016, 'Shirley Hazzard: Author, Amateur, Citizen', in We Need Silence To Find Out What WeThink, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. xiii - xxi

Olubas B; Howard I, 2015, '"Making Visible, changing sides: the contradictory use of camouflage by artists Xing Junqin and Ian Howard"', in Elias A; Harley R; Tsoutas N (ed.), Camouflage Cultures: Beyond the art of disappearance, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 127 - 145

Olubas B, 2014, 'Romulus, My Father and the Australian Literary Imaginary', in Taylor C; Graefe M (ed.), A Sense for Humanity: The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 35 - 47, http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/sh-9781922235459.html

Olubas B, 2013, ''The Last Curve of the Globe': Deep Time and Scenes of Reading in Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire', in Dixon R; Rooney B (ed.), Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature?, Australian Scholarly Press, North Melbourne, pp. 127 - 136

Olubas B, 2013, 'Home and Away: Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire [2003]', in Genoni P; Dalziell T (ed.), Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures 1935-2012, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 532 - 538, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gobi/docDetail.action?docID=10782949&page=1

Olubas B, 2012, '"Like/Unlike: Portraiture, Similtude and the Craft of Words in The Sitters"', in Dixon R (ed.), The Novels of Alex Miller, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 89 - 100, http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C820226?mainTabTemplate=workTableOfContents&embId=Z1856234

McMahon E; Olubas B, 2010, 'Introduction', in , pp. IX - XVII

Olubas B, 2010, 'God Sees My Name: Belonging in The Crucible', in Scoping the syllabus : papers from the English Association English Teachers Conference 2010, English Association, Sydney

Olubas B, 2010, 'Some of the doors of the house have never been seen open: Poetic Habitation and Civil Space in Patrick White's Early Drama', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, pp. 149 - 162

Olubas B, 2009, 'Modes of Belonging in Romulus, My Father', in Ways of Teaching, English Association Sydney, Sydney, pp. 55 - 63

Olubas B, 2006, 'Awake/Asleep', in Marian Drews - Photographs and Video Works, Qld Centre for Photography, Brisbane, pp. 49 - 58

McMahon EN; Olubas B, 2006, 'Introduction: Women Making Time', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis, University of WA Press, Perth, pp. 1 - 13

Olubas B, 2006, 'Jack Davis', in Samuels S (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 325: Australian writers, 1975 - 2000, Thomson Gale, Detroit, pp. 59 - 64

Olubas B, 2006, 'That Which Is In Making it: Practices of efficiency, waste and modernity in artworks by Donna Marcus', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis, University of WA Press, Perth, pp. 62 - 77

Olubas B, 2004, 'Antigone Kefala', in Samuels S (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 289: Australian Writers, 1950 - 1975, Thomson Gale, Detroit, pp. 175 - 179

Olubas B, 2004, 'Shirley Hazzard', in Samuels S (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 289: Australian Writers, 1950 - 1975, Thomson Gale, Detroit, pp. 114 - 120

Ashcroft B; Olubas B; Kossew S, 2003, 'Rethinking First Year English: A Web-Assisted, Modular and Collaborative Course in First Year English', in Wilson S; Scoufis M; Weiss B (ed.), UNSW: Exciting and Engaging Our Students in their First Year at UNSW: Issues, Tips and Resources for FY Learning and Teaching at UNSW, University of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 115 - 118

Olubas B, 1999, 'Affective territory: writing white guilt and responsibility in 1990s Australia', in ecrire: a la croisee des iles, des langues, L'Harmattan, Paris, France., pp. 125 - 135

Edited Books

Olubas B; Wyndham S, (ed.), 2024, Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, https://unsw.press/books/hazzard-and-harrower/

Olubas B; McMahon E, (ed.), 2021, Antigone Kefala: New Australian Modernities, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands WA

Olubas B, (ed.), 2020, Collected Stories, Virago

Olubas B; Simoes da Silva T, (ed.), 2018, Networks and Genealogies: Tracing Connections, Inventions, and Reflections across Australian writing, Sydney University Press, Sydney, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/issue/view/875/showToc

McMahon E; Olubas B, (ed.), 2017, Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, Sydney University Press, Sydney

Olubas B; Hazzard S, (ed.), 2016, We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think Selected Essays, Columbia University Press, New York

Olubas B; Olubas B, (ed.), 2014, Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays, Sydney University Press, Sydney

McMahon EN; Olubas B, (ed.), 2010, Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York

McMahon EN; Olubas B, (ed.), 2006, Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis, University of WA Press, Perth

Journal articles

Olubas B, 2020, '“Only for Love”: Expatriatism, amateur reading and Shirley Hazzard’s post-war world', JASAL, 20, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/14342

Olubas B, 2019, '"'Where we are is too hard': Refugee writing and the Australian border as literary interface"', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 19, ttp://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/JASAL

Olubas B, 2019, '"We Forgot Our Names"', Publicbooks.org, https://www.publicbooks.org/we-forgot-our-names/

Olubas B; Yu X, 2018, '"The Chinese Translation and Reception of Elizabeth Harrower's The Watch Tower"', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, 78, pp. 206 - 221

Olubas B, 2018, '"The Short Fiction of Shirley Hazzard"', Southerly 77.3 Mixed Messages, 77, pp. 20 - 25

Olubas B, 2018, '"The Event of Hiroshima in Australian Literature"', Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature, 30, pp. 256 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/antipodes.30.2.0256

Olubas B, 2017, 'A Mongrel, Migrant Language', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38, pp. 577 - 579, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2017.1375179

Gunew S; Olubas B; Chakraborty MN; Trimboli D; Muraca P, 2017, 'Discussion: Post-multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38, pp. 586 - 597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2017.1375182

Olubas B, 2017, 'The space of nations is never simply their own : Hiroshima in Australian Literature(Plenary Speech 2,A Collection of Essays Focusing on Transformation of Australian Studies in a Globalising Age,In Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Australian Studies Assosiation of Japan)', オーストラリア研究, 28, pp. 127 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.20764/asaj.28.0_127

Olubas B, 2015, '" 'I think you're my wife': Translation, Marriage and the Literary Lives of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller"', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, 75, pp. 73 - 87

Olubas B, 2014, 'Introduction: Country - "It's Earth"', JASAL, 14, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/3476/4115

Olubas B, 2014, '"The Illusion of Old Solitude": Shirley Hazzard's Capri', Journal of Australian Studies, 38, pp. 281 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2014.920899


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