Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier
Emeritus Professor

Carole Ferrier

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Background

Carole Ferrier is a Professor of Literature and Women's Studies. Her research interests are in Women's and Gender Studies, and Critical and Cultural Studies, especially Black women authors; Australian women writers and Migrant writers; feminist and Marxist theory, and the theorising of race and ethnicity in relation to culture.

After gaining a BA Honours (London) and a PhD (Auckland), she moved in 1973 to teach in the Department of English (now the School of Communication and Arts) at The University of Queensland.

She was Director of the Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change Research Centre from the 1990s, and President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association in the late 90s and early 2000s. She has been convenor of Women's/Gender Studies at UQ since the early 1990s and contributed to the growth and development of the discipline in Australia and beyond. She was also instrumental in the founding of Creative Writing as an academic research discipline at the University, and served as Director of the Australian Studies Centre.

In 1975 she was the founding editor of one of the first international second-wave feminist journals, Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal , now in its forty-second volume, and also took over the editorship of the Australian Women's Book Review in 1999 (https://hecate.comunications-arts.uq.edu.au). She is also on the editorial boards of eight other national/ international journals.

She has published more than a hundred articles and book chapters, presented papers at seventy conferences in Australia and overseas, and regularly organised conferences at The University of Queensland. Books include: Gender, Politics and Fiction: Australian Women's Novels (UQP); The Janet Frame Reader (London: Women’s P); Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary (Melbourne UP); As Good As a Yarn with You; Letters Between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark (Cambridge UP); Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History (Melbourne: Vulgar P).

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Fields of research

Literary studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University College London
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Auckland

Research interests

  • Comparative transnational study of the figure of the new woman in fiction of the early twentieth century.

    Book dealing with women writers from the United States, the United Kingdom. Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the former Commonwealth

  • Book on New Zealand women's fiction

    Collaborative project with Aorewa McLeod (Auckland) and Gina Wisker (Brighton)

  • Correspondence beween Vance and Nettie Palmer

    Critical edition of manuscript material

  • Australian Working Class Writing

    Anthology of published and unpublished literature

Research impacts

Research impact has been particularly in relation to its advocacy of the writing of women and other disadvantaged groups and making this visible in cultural history and general history; influence on the formation of new alternative canons of literary and artistic value; (re)discovery of marginalised and silenced figures from the past and of their writing and lives. Wide circulation of Hecate journal, with many subscribers including hundreds of Universities and other institutions around the world, has put the University, Queensland and Australia on the map, from the 1970s.

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109 works between 1998 and 2020
All (109) Journal Article (51) Book Chapter (21) Conference Publication (1) Book (2) Other Outputs (1) Edited Outputs (33)

1 - 20 of 109 works

2020

Journal Article

Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia

Ferrier, Carole (2020). Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 51 (3), 351-353. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2020.1786900

Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia

2017

Journal Article

Preoccupations of some Asian Australian women's fiction at the turn of the twenty-first century

Ferrier, Carole (2017). Preoccupations of some Asian Australian women's fiction at the turn of the twenty-first century. eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 16 (2), 118-140. doi: 10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3619

Preoccupations of some Asian Australian women's fiction at the turn of the twenty-first century

2017

Edited Outputs

Hecate

Hecate. (2017). 42 (2)

Hecate

2017

Journal Article

Editorial

Ferrier, Carole (2017). Editorial. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 42 (2), 4-6.

Editorial

2016

Journal Article

Resistance and sovereignty in some recent Australian Indigenous women's novels

Ferrier, Carole (2016). Resistance and sovereignty in some recent Australian Indigenous women's novels. Ilha do Desterro, 69 (2), 17-31. doi: 10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p17

Resistance and sovereignty in some recent Australian Indigenous women's novels

2015

Journal Article

Christina Stead's Poor Women of Sydney, Travelling into our Times

Ferrier, Carole (2015). Christina Stead's Poor Women of Sydney, Travelling into our Times. The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 15 (3).

Christina Stead's Poor Women of Sydney, Travelling into our Times

2013

Journal Article

Editorial: a changing climate?

Ferrier, Carole (2013). Editorial: a changing climate?. Hecate, 38 (1/2), 5-8.

Editorial: a changing climate?

2013

Journal Article

Jean Devanny's fictional critique of whiteness and race relations in North Queensland

Ferrier, Carole (2013). Jean Devanny's fictional critique of whiteness and race relations in North Queensland. etropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 12 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.25120/etropic.12.2.2013.3386

Jean Devanny's fictional critique of whiteness and race relations in North Queensland

2013

Book Chapter

Crossing borders and boundaries: ways of reading some contemporary Asian Australian women's fictions

Ferrier, Carole (2013). Crossing borders and boundaries: ways of reading some contemporary Asian Australian women's fictions. Comparative Literature: East & West. (pp. 1-17) edited by Shunqing Cao. Chengdu, China: Sichuan University Press.

Crossing borders and boundaries: ways of reading some contemporary Asian Australian women's fictions

2011

Journal Article

Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms. Margaret Henderson and Ann Vickery, eds, 2009. Wollongong, NSW: Australian Literary Studies. The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers. Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery, 2009. Canberra: Na

Ferrier, Carole (2011). Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms. Margaret Henderson and Ann Vickery, eds, 2009. Wollongong, NSW: Australian Literary Studies. The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers. Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery, 2009. Canberra: Na. Australian Feminist Studies, 26 (67), 153-158. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2011.546334

Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms. Margaret Henderson and Ann Vickery, eds, 2009. Wollongong, NSW: Australian Literary Studies. The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers. Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery, 2009. Canberra: Na

2011

Edited Outputs

Hecate

Hecate. (2011). 37 (1)

Hecate

2011

Edited Outputs

Hecate

Hecate. (2011). 37 (2)

Hecate

2010

Edited Outputs

Australian Women's Book Review

Australian Women's Book Review. (2010). 22 (1)

Australian Women's Book Review

2010

Edited Outputs

Hecate

Hecate. (2010). 36 (1/2)

Hecate

2010

Book Chapter

Teaching African American women's literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the deep north

Ferrier, Carole (2010). Teaching African American women's literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the deep north. Teaching African American women's writing.. (pp. 137-156) edited by Gina Wisker. Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan.

Teaching African American women's literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the deep north

2009

Journal Article

Jean Devanny as an Australasian 'woman of 1928'

Ferrier, Carole (2009). Jean Devanny as an Australasian 'woman of 1928'. Hecate: An interdisciplinary of women's liberation, 35 (1/2), 187-203.

Jean Devanny as an Australasian 'woman of 1928'

2009

Journal Article

Editorial

Ferrier, Carole (2009). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 21 (1-2)

Editorial

2009

Book Chapter

Women's liberation, 1965

Ferrier, Carole (2009). Women's liberation, 1965. Hibiscus and ti-tree : Women in Queensland. (pp. 225-229) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan.. St. Lucia, Qld.: Hecate Press.

Women's liberation, 1965

2009

Book Chapter

Introduction: Women's narratives of Queensland

Ferrier, Carole and Jordan, Deborah (2009). Introduction: Women's narratives of Queensland. Hibiscus and ti-tree: Women in Queensland. (pp. 5-18) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan. St Lucia, Australia: Hecate Press.

Introduction: Women's narratives of Queensland

2009

Book Chapter

Women's house, Brisbane

Ferrier, Carole and Fuller, Diana (2009). Women's house, Brisbane. Hibiscus and ti-tree : Women in Queensland. (pp. 236-240) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan. St. Lucia, Qld.: Hecate Press.

Women's house, Brisbane

Past funding

  • 2009
    Hibiscus and Tea-Tree: Queensland's Women, Remembering Our Past
    Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2007
    Letters between Vance and Nettie Palmer 1909-1959: The Complete Correspondence.
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2005
    Centenary of Queensland Women's Suffrage Book, Walking Tour & Booklet
    Queensland Government Department of Local Government, Planning, Sport and Recreation
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2005
    2005 Queensland Women's Suffrage Centenary: Publications and Activities
    Queensland Government Department of Local Government, Planning, Sport and Recreation
    Open grant
  • 2001
    Re-visioning the 1950s: New Perspectives on Clashes and Conflicts in the Australian Literary and Cultural Arena of the Post-War Years.
    University of Queensland Small Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 1997 - 1998
    Gender, race and class in the radical romances of Jean Devanny
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant

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  • Aboriginal writers
  • Australia - women's studies
  • Culture and politics
  • Equity
  • Ethnicity
  • Female authors - Australia
  • Feminism
  • Fiction - female writers
  • Gender studies
  • Hecate (women's journal)
  • Janet Frame
  • Palmer, Nettie and Vance
  • Politics and women
  • Protests in Brisbane
  • Race
  • Socialism
  • Society and women
  • Suffrage - women
  • Women - status
  • Women and writing
  • Women's studies
  • Writing and women

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