Dr Maggie Tonkin
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
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My research ranges from literary studies to dance and performance studies. My literary interests are in twentieth and twenty-first century literature, with special interests in postmodernism and women's writing. I have published widely on the British writer Angela Carter, including the monograph, Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques (Palgrave, 2012). I sit on the International Advisory Panel of the Angela Carter Society and regularly publish articles and book chapters in Carter studies. Current projects include an examination of the literary and wider cultural impact of existential psychiatrist R.D. Laing, for which I am preparing a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan.
I have a dance background and write and review regularly for the national dance magazine, Dance Australia; my reviews have also appeared in The Conversation, The Australian and Ballettanz, one of Europe's leading dance industry magazines. In addition to sitting on judging panels for various dance awards, I am also a member of the Adelaide Critics Circle. My monograph FIFTY: Half a Century of Australian Dance Theatre, a history of Australia’s oldest contemporary dance company, was published in 2016 by Wakefield Press. I was awarded a National Library of Australia Fellowship (2018) to research the creative process of one of Australia's mot significant choreographers, Meryl Tankard. I currently lead an ARC Linkage project LP2220200559 'Re-Activating Australian Dance Theatre's Archive for the Future', which investigates innovative ways to make the dance archive productive for future dance artists, students and scholars .
Arts and cultural policy is an emerging area of research. I am part of the tri-university group Reset, which seeks new ideas and practices to help us rethink the value of arts and culture, and re-establish their place in public policy and everyday citizenship.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2017 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide 2014 - 2016 Lecturer University of Adelaide -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2018 Research Award Shortlisted, Hazel Rowley Fellowship for Biography Hazel Rowley Foundation Australia - 2018 Fellowship Australian National Library Fellowhip 2019 National Library of Australia Australia $25,000 -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2007 University of Adelaide Australia PhD
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Journals
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Books
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Book Chapters
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Original Creative Works
Year Citation 2018 Authors: Tonkin MK. Title: ‘Furioso, of zes manieren om de hemel omhoog to houden’. Description: N/A. Extent: 4 pages. 2016 Authors: Tonkin MK. Title: Von Göttin zum Kadaver: Die Karriere der Muse. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages.
National Library of Australia Fellowship 2018: 'The Creative Process of Meryl Tankard' $22,000
Lead Chief Investigator LP220200559 'Reactivating Australian Dance Theatre's Archive for the Future' $295,955 (2023-2026)
Literary Studies
I convene a number of survey courses in literary studies:
ENGL 3047: Rhapsody and Revolution: Romanticism and its Legacies
ENGL 2080: Victorian Afterlives: Adapting the Victorian Novel
ENGL 3051: Modernisms
ENGL 3045: The Question of Postmodernism: Texts and Issues
I also team teach into Icons of Decadence and Introduction to English.
Bachelor of Creative Arts
I am the Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Creative arts, and convene the core subjects for that degree:
CRARTS 1001: What is this Thing Called Art?
CRARTS 2002: Creativity and the Adelaide Festival
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2024 Co-Supervisor Connection and Dislocation: Nomadic Cartographies in the Writings of Janette Turner Hospital Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Victoria Rose Circelli 2024 Co-Supervisor Mary Shelley’s Angelic Heroines: Radical Domesticity and the Angel in the House in Valperga, Lodore, and Falkner. Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Nadia Marie Jeffries 2024 Co-Supervisor Towards a Canon of Australian Art Song: A Study of Selected Works by Women Composers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Fiona McArdle 2024 Co-Supervisor Gastro-Postmodernism: A Consumer's Guide Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Amy May Fischli 2023 Principal Supervisor Form, identity, and Homeric reception in the poetry of Alice Oswald and Ocean Vuong Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Thao Gia Bui 2023 Principal Supervisor A feature documentary screenplay about two icons of Australian choreography collaborating on a new dance work inspired by dance heritage archives. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua Tyler 2022 Principal Supervisor Performance in the poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Hannah Ann Violet Doyle 2019 Co-Supervisor Fragments of Self: Contemporary Women's Life Writing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Meg Madden -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Volume 1: Scheherazade
Volume 2: Unveiling the Carnal FeminineMaster of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Victoria Tomaszczyk 2020 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Drifting: a Fire Island Derive Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jacob Sunter 2020 - 2023 Co-Supervisor 'Moon Overhead, Nothing Moving' + 'Fragment, Lyric, Essay: An exegetical reflection on essaying and fragmentation' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Gemma Lynn Parker 2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Muslim Women's Identity in a Changing World: the Fiction of Leila Aboulela Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Najla Fahad Alyabis 2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn’: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch in Popular Culture Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Brydie Kosmina 2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor NUMBERS BY PAINT Quantifying aesthetic receptions Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Edith Mina Lyre 2017 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Bound by Narrative: 'Reading' the Female Body and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Charlotte Eliza Brake Kelso 2015 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Me, Myself and the Other: Self-reflexivity in Travel Writing Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Tina Morganella 2014 - 2016 Co-Supervisor 'Petticoated Police,' 'Intimate Watching' and Private Agency(ies): Reading the Female Detective of Fin-de-siecle British Literature Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Genevieve Lauren Seys 2012 - 2016 Co-Supervisor 'Passionately Subjective': Challenges to Identity in the Works of Amy Levy Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Carolyn Louise Lake
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Board Memberships
Date Role Board name Institution name Country 2022 - ongoing Board Member Adelaide Central School of Art Adelaide Central School of Art Australia 2018 - ongoing Member Bachelor of Creative Arts University of Adelaide Australia 2017 - ongoing Member International Advisory Board, Angela Carter Society University of the West of England United Kingdom -
Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2017 - ongoing Member Critics panel, Adelaide Festival Centre Walk of Fame Adelaide Festival Centre Australia -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2022 - ongoing Member Australian Drama Studies Association Australia 2020 - ongoing Member Dance Studies Association United States 2018 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Angela Carter Society United Kingdom 2015 - ongoing Member Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender Australia 2013 - ongoing Member J.M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice Australia 2012 - ongoing Member Adelaide Critics Circle Australia 2006 - ongoing Member Contemporary Women's Writing Association Australia -
Community Engagement
Date Title Engagement Type Institution Country 2010 - ongoing Adelaide Critics Circle Public Community Engagement independent Australia 2010 - 2018 Member Judging Panel AusDance Awards Public Community Engagement AusDance Australia
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