By Professor Elizabeth Nora McMahon

Books

Stratford E; Baldacchino G; McMahon E, 2023, Rethinking Island Methodologies, Rowman & Littlefield, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798881813659

McMahon EN, 2016, Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination, Anthem Press, London and New York

Book Chapters

McMahon E; White C, 2025, 'THE POSTCOLONIAL HOME AND BELONGING', in Routledge Handbook of Home, pp. 465 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003374428-47

McMahon E, 2023, 'Decolonizing Literary Pedagogies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand', in Quayson A; Mukherjee A (ed.), Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 80 - 109

McMahon E, 2023, 'The Mid-Century Australian Novel and the End of World History.', in Carter D (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 236 - 254

McMahon E, 2023, 'Being: What Is the Nature of Islands and Archipelagos as Entities and Relations?', in Rethinking Island Methodologies, pp. 35 - 54

Stratford E; McMahon E; Baldacchino G, 2023, 'Conversing: What Does It Mean to Share and Stress-Test Ideas about Rethinking Island Methodologies?', in Rethinking Island Methodologies, pp. 113 - 131

McMahon E, 2023, 'Guiding: What Rationales and Rules Typify the Study of Islands and Archipelagos?', in Rethinking Island Methodologies, pp. 85 - 100

McMahon E, 2022, 'Bioluminescence: Materiality, Metaphor and Trace in Sixty Lights', in Uhlmann A (ed.), Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 29 - 42

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

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

McMahon E; Andre B, 2018, 'Literature and the Literary gaze', in Baldacchino G (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies A World of Islands, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 296 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315556642

McMahon EN, 2017, 'Moments of Being in the Fiction of Elizabeth Harrower', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 135 - 145

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

McMahon EN, 2017, 'Identity, Perversity and Literary Subjectivity: Teaching Patrick White's The Twyborn Affair', in Birns N; Moore N; Sheriff S (ed.), Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, Modern Languages Association, New York, pp. 133 - 144

McMahon E, 2016, 'Parallel: Parallax-the melancholy dialectics of Dionne Brand', in Literary Careers in the Modern Era, pp. 113 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478504

McMahon EN, 2012, 'Continental Heartlands and Alex Miller’s Geosophical Imaginary', in Dixon R (ed.), The Novels of Alex Miller, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 125 - 137

McMahon EN, 2010, 'Author, Author! The Two Faces of Kate Grenville', in Kossew S (ed.), Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 39 - 54

McMahon EN, 2010, 'The Lateness and the Queerness of The Twyborn Affair: White's Farewell to the Novel', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, pp. 77 - 94

McMahon EN, 2009, 'Homesick: Cloudstreet and the death drive', in Ways of Teaching, English Association Sydney, Sydney, pp. 35 - 46

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

McMahon EN, 2006, 'Wasted Memory and Generational History: Tasmania`s abandoned places', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis, University of WA Press, Perth, pp. 43 - 62

McMahon EN, 2003, 'The Gilded Cage: From Utopia to Monad in Australia`s Island Imaginary', in Edmond R; Smith V (ed.), Islands in History and Representation, Routledge Press, London, pp. 190 - 202

Edited Books

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

McMahon E; Olubas B, (ed.), 2017, Elizabeth Harrower: 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

McMahon E, 2025, 'Michelle de Kretser's Planetary Kinetics', Journal of the Association for teh Study of Australian Literature, 24, pp. 1 - 18

McMahon E; Baldacchino G, 2023, 'Special section: Considering suitable research methods for islands', Geographical Research, 61, pp. 93 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12586

McMahon E, 2020, 'B-Sides Jessica Anderson's 'The Impersonators', Public Books, na, https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-jessica-andersons-the-impersonators/

McMahon E, 2020, 'The Transvestite Adventure: Reading the Colonial Grotesque', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 20, pp. 1 - 11, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/issue/view/From%20Colony%20to%20Transnation/showToc

McMahon E, 2013, 'Archipelagic space and the uncertain future of national literatures.', Journal of the Association for Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), 13, pp. 1 - 20, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/index

McMahon E, 2013, 'Reading the Planetary Archipelago of the Torres Strait', Island Studies Journal, 8, pp. 55 - 66, http://www.islandstudies.ca/node/407

McMahon E, 2012, 'Mary Gaunt and the Modern Waning of Affect', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), 12, pp. 1 - 11, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/2318/2920

Stratford E; Baldacchino G; McMahon E; Farbotko C; Harwood A, 2011, 'Envisioning the Archipelago', Island Studies Journal, 6, pp. 113 - 130, http://ro.uow.edu.au/scipapers/3062

McMahon EN; Stratford E; Farbotko C, 2011, 'Reading Suvendrini Perera’s Australia and the Insular Imagination', Political Geography, 30, pp. 329 - 338

McMahon E, 2011, 'Review of Archipelagoes: Insular Fictions from Chivalric Romance to the Novel by Simone Pinet', Island Studies Journal, 6, pp. 267 - 269, http://vre2.upei.ca/islandstudies.ca/node/339

McMahon E, 2010, 'Australia, the Island Continent: How Contradictory Geography Shapes the National Imaginary', Space and Culture, 13, pp. 178 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331209358224

McMahon E, 2010, 'The Proximate Pleasure of Eve Sedgwick: A Legacy of Intimate Reading', Australian Humanities Review, 48, pp. na - na, http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-May-2010/mcmahon.html

Mcmahon E, 2010, 'The Proximate Pleasure of Eve Sedgwick: A Legacy of Intimate Reading', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, pp. 17 - 29

McMahon EN, 2007, 'Judith Wright and the temporality of composition (The `Moving Image`)', Australian Literary Studies, 23, pp. 15 - 26

McMahon EN, 2007, 'The Centaur and the Cyborg: Abject Becoming on the Colonial Frontier', Southerly, 67, pp. 211 - 225

McMahon E, 2005, 'Encapsulated Space: The Paradise Prison of Australia`s Island Imaginery', Southerly, 65, No. 1, pp. 20 - 29

McMahon EN, 2005, 'False as Eden: Constituting the Female Subject in Time', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), 4, pp. 173 - 184

McMahon EN, 2005, 'Puberty Blues Takes Feminist Generationalism to the Beach', Australian Feminist Studies, 20, No.48, pp. 281 - 289

McMahon EN, 2005, 'Review of Barbara Creed`s, `Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality`', Australian Feminist Studies, 20, No.27, pp. 272 - 273

McMahon EN, 2004, 'The Sculpture of Donna Marcus', Art Monthly Australia, No. 168, pp. 29 - 31

McMahon EN, 2000, 'Lost in Music: Music and Dance in Loaded and Head On', Meanjin, pp. 166 - 175

Conference Papers

McMahon EN, 2008, 'Longing in Belonging: Emily Dickinson`s Poetics of Distance', in New Directions, English Association Sydney, Sydney, presented at English Association English Teacher's Conference 2008, University of Sydney, 28 May 2008

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