Dr Barbara Holloway
Areas of expertise
- Historical Studies 2103
- Literary Studies 2005
- Other Studies In Creative Arts And Writing 1999
- Ecological Applications 0501
Research interests
Literature, Australian literature.
Environmental, cultural and postcolonial Australian histories especially of rural and remote areas.
Theoretical approaches to the post-human, to representation of habitat, of non-human and human relations in culture and literature.
Changing perceptions of 'nature' in the context of the Anthropocene and environmental crises.
The practices of environmental conservation.
Biography
Visiting Fellow CASS/ SLLL 2011 > 2015, Editorial Assistant, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Temporary Lecturer Gendder Studies ANU, Research Assistant English Dept, ANU; Tutor, UNE, Macquarie, and Sydney.
2014
I gave a paper, “Trees as Treasure, Trees as Trash: a Reading of Loss and Continuity” in June in the HRC/History of Emotions Conference, Affective Habitus.
September 22 I gave a seminar at Shanghai Normal University: ‘The Literature of Everyday Nature” to postgraduates in the Comparative Literatures Program.
I launched Deborah Jordan’s survey, Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction, followed by holding a ‘Dialogue with the Author’, Manning Clark House, November.
I reviewed John Charles Ryan. Green Sense: the Aesthetics of Plants, Place and Language. (Trueheart Press) in AJE, the Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism vol 4 2014
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/AJE/issue/view/1839-843X/showToc
and The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress (Routledge 2014) in AJE vol 6 2016
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/AJE/issue/view/842
Publications
- Holloway, B 2018, 'Review of D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire, by David Game', Australian Literary Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. -.
- Holloway, B 2018, 'The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry By Thomas Bristow Palgrave Macmillan, 139pp, 2015', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 63, pp. 203-208.
- Holloway, B 2018, The bird bath in the buffer zone. https://everydayfutures.com.au/project/bird-bath/
- Holloway, B 2016, 'Conversing with the Undead in Australian Woodlands', Fusion Journal, no. 10, pp. 195-210.
- Holloway, B 2016, 'Book Review: The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress (2014) by Cameron Muir London and NY: Routledge Environmental Humanities Series', Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, vol. 6, no. 2015/2016, pp. 4pp.
- Holloway, B 2011, 'The Tree and Its Voices: What the Casuarina Says', Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, vol. 1, no. 2011, pp. 27-37.
- Holloway, B 2010, 'Round Australia with Keith and Merle', in Jennifer Rutherford & Barbara Holloway (ed.), Halfway House: The Poetics of Australian Spaces, University of Western Australia Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, pp. 299-309.
- Holloway, B 2008, 'Stop, Revive, Survive: The Car Place', in Frank Vanclay, Matthew Higgins, Adam Blackshaw (ed.), Making Sense of Place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, pp. 155-164.
- Holloway, B 2006, 'Decent Intervals', Southerly, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 66-77.
- Holloway, B 2004, 'The logic of birds', Southerly, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 136-146.
