Kate Douglas
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Dr Kate Douglas is a Lecturer in English at Flinders University. Her main areas of research are contemporary modes of self-representation and life narrative studies, 20-21st century literatures in English, post-colonial literature and theory, and Australian literature. She is currently working on a book about autobiographies of childhood, as well as projects based on teaching Australian life narratives, and refugee and asylum-seeker narratives in Australia.
Dr Douglas has been the South Australian representative for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), and is one of the editors of M/C Reviews.
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Review of "Other People's Words" by Hilary McPhee.
(Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2002)Kate Douglas's review of "Other People's Words" by Hilary McPhee (Sydney: Picador, 2001). -
Review of "Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written" by Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe.
(Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2002)Kate Douglas's review of "Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written" (Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2001, 1993). -
The Universal Autobiographer: The Politics of Normative Readings.
(Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2002)In Australia, autobiographies occupy a cultural space which commonly sees them marked as socially valuable, functional texts. Autobiographies are thought to be concerned with the dominant concerns of our time, representing ... -
Review of "The Olympics at the Millenium: Power, Politics and the Games" by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith (eds).
(Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2001-12)Kate Douglas's review of "The Olympics at the Millenium: Power, Politics and the Games" by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000). -
Review of "Big Bother: Why did that reality-tv show become such a phenomenon" by Toni Johnson-Woods.
(Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2002-03)Kate Douglas's review of "Big Bother: Why did that reality tv-show become such a phenomenon?" by Toni Johnson-Woods (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2002). -
Cyber-Commemoration: Life Writing, Trauma and Memorialisation. [abstract].
(2006)In this paper, Kate Douglas explores one of the ways in which life narratives of trauma are circulating in contemporary Australian cultural landscapes: through the internet. Using the example of the Bali bombings, Dr Douglas ... -
"Blurbing" Biographical: Authorship and Autobiography
(University Press of Hawaii for the Biographical Research Center, 2001)In the community that consumes autobiographical writing, how is the author positioned, and what are the implications of this positioning? One method for exploring the author construct and its impact upon readership is the ... -
We Don't Need No Education: Adolescence and the School in Contemporary Australian Teen TV
(British Film Institute, 2004)Television remains the number one leisure pursuit of Australian teenagers, yet teenagers occupy a number of complicated, sometimes contradictory, spaces on contemporary Australian television. Non-fictional teen representations ...
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