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Dr Sharon Bickle

Dr Sharon Bickle
Name Sharon Bickle
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Lecturer (English Literature)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office A422
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4610
Extension 4610
Email
Qualifications BA Qld , PGDipEd Qld , PGDipEngl Melb , MA Qld , PhD Monash
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80q71/dr-sharon-bickle
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Biography

Dr Sharon Bickle's research interests focus upon women's writing (particularly poetry, verse drama and life-writings) and the construction of subjectivity in nineteenth-century literature. Her most influential publication is The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field (1876-1909) which contains the annotated love letters of two late-Victorian women who wrote collaboratively under the pseudonym "Michael Field." She is currently working on a new book project, a co-authored biography of Michael Field as well as journal articles on Young Adult Literature and on Oscar Wilde, as well as contributing to the digital humanities project, The Diaries of Michael Field.

Sharon is a past Vice President of AWGSA (Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association) and serves as consulting editor for The Latchkey: a Journal of New Woman Literature, as well as being on the editorial board of Hecate and Australian Women's Book Review.

Research Career


  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200599 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470599 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470299 )
  • Literary Studies ( 470500 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Womens Studies (incl. Girls Studies) ( 440509 )
  • Feminist Theory ( 440503 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Gender Studies not elsewhere classified ( 440599 )
  • Culture ( 470208 )
  • Feminist And Queer Theory ( 440501 )
  • Book History ( 470503 )
  • British And Irish Literature ( 470504 )
  • Young Adult Literature ( 470531 )
  • Digital Literature ( 470508 )
  • Gender Studies ( 440500 )

Women’s writing; Nineteenth-century Literature; Autobiography and Lifewriting; Poetry; Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature; Fin de siécle British Literature (Decadence and Aestheticism); Textual Scholarship; Queer writing; Steampunk; Michael Field.


Member of Executive Committee (Qld Rep) and former Vice President of AWGSA (Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association)
Member of AVSA (Australasian Victorian Studies Association)


Co-editor of The Latchkey: A Journal of New Woman Studies (http://www.thelatchkey.org/start.htm)
International Editorial Board of Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium: A Collection of Digital Archives and Editions (https://vllc.wordpress.cdhsc.org)
Editorial Board of Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation
Editorial Board of Australian Women’s Book Review.

Teaching


ENL1000 Introduction to Literature
ENL2004 Gothic Literature
ENL2006 Literature and Adolescence: Writing the Child
ENL3008 Screening Literature: Literature and Adaptation
ENL4015 Theory and Practice in the Scholarship of English Literature
ENL8014 Madwoman and Medusa: Women's Writing since the Nineteenth Century


20 Years


Program Director, Bachelor of Arts
Judge of Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

Supervision


  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200599 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470599 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470299 )
  • Literary Studies ( 470500 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Womens Studies (incl. Girls Studies) ( 440509 )
  • Feminist Theory ( 440503 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Gender Studies not elsewhere classified ( 440599 )
  • Culture ( 470208 )
  • Feminist And Queer Theory ( 440501 )
  • Book History ( 470503 )
  • British And Irish Literature ( 470504 )
  • Young Adult Literature ( 470531 )
  • Digital Literature ( 470508 )
  • Gender Studies ( 440500 )