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Susan Kossew

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Research interests

The literary works of J. M. Coetzee

Representing violence and trauma in literature (specifically Australian and South African women's writing)

Kate Grenville's literary works

Postcolonial literatures including South African and Australian literature

Postcolonial Women's Writing especially Australian and South African women writers

 

Literature of apology and reconciliation

Supervision interests

Any of the above

Keywords

  • Literary Studies
  • Australian literature
  • South African Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Violence studies in literature

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Projects 2014 2018

Representations of Gendered Violence in Cultural Texts of the Global South

Kossew, S. R., Gonsalves, R., Lorek, J. & Macdonald, A.

5/12/17 → 6/12/17

Project: Other

J.M. Coetzee's Women

Kossew, S. R.

The University of Texas at Austin

16/06/16 → 20/07/16

Project: Research

Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Australian Women's Writing

Kossew, S. R. & Brewster, A.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

2/01/14 → 30/09/18

Project: Research

Research Output 1993 2017

An Inside View: The master of slow reading

Kossew, S. Sep 2017 In : Australian Book Review. 394, p. 11-12 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other

J.M. Coetzee and the parental punctum

Kossew, S. 2017 J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things . Rutherford, J. & Uhlmann, A. (eds.). New York NY USA: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 149-164 16 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Kate Grenville’s transgressive narratives

Kossew, S. 2017 Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing. Das, D. & Dasgupta, S. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 127-140 14 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Revisiting the Haunted Past: Christine Piper's After Darkness

Kossew, S. May 2017 In : Australian Humanities Review. 61, p. 113-128 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

City of words: Haunting legacies in Gail Jones’s Five Bells

Kossew, S. 2016 Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis. Sandten, C. & Bauer, A. (eds.). 1 ed. Leiden The Netherlands: Brill, p. 277-289 13 p. (Cross/Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English. ASNEL Papers; vol. 188, no. 20)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Prizes

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Susan Rachelle Kossew (Recipient), 2015

Prize: Election to learned society

Activities 2008 2017

  • 4 Editorial responsibility
  • 2 Contribution to conference
  • 1 Public event

Australian Humanities Review (Journal)

Kossew, S. R. (Guest editor)
May 2017

Activity: Editorial responsibility

"Reading Coetzee's Women

Kossew, S. R. (Organiser)
27 Sep 2016

Activity: Contribution to conference

Australian Book Review (Journal)

Kossew, S. R. (Editorial board member)
2016 → …

Activity: Editorial responsibility

My Place, My Story story-writing competition

Kossew, S. R. (Host)
2016 → 2017

Activity: Public event

The Literary Encyclopedia (Journal)

Kossew, S. R. (Editorial board member)
2009 → …

Activity: Editorial responsibility