Mandy Treagus

Research Interests

Literary Studies Literatures in English Pacific Cultural Studies Pacific History Pacific Literature Visual Cultures

Associate Professor Mandy Treagus

Associate Professor/Reader

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

As a scholar of cultural texts I am primarily concerned with how individuals and societies construct meaning in different historical periods, together with the power relations inherent in this process. I pursue these inquiries via the analysis of literary texts, film, photographic and visual art forms, in the context of archival sources. I theoretically engage with critical approaches from the fields of Postcolonial and Decolonising Studies and Gender Studies in an overarching framework that pays close attention to the specificities and scholarship of each genre.

Date Position Institution name
2024 - ongoing Adjunct Associate Professor University of Adelaide, Adelaide

Language Competency
Tonga (Tonga Islands) Can read, write, speak and understand spoken

Date Institution name Country Title
The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
University of Adelaide Australia BA Honours in English
Adelaide CAE Australia Graduate Diploma in Teaching
University of Adelaide Australia BA

Year Citation
2025 Norman, J., Potter, E., Harrop, L., Treagus, M., Black, P., & Muecke, S. (2025). Mapping Shadows of the Bight: a road trip residency. Continuum, 39(1), 161-183.
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2024 Treagus, M., & Enari, D. (2024). Fa‘atama: Indigenous Tomboys of Sāmoa. Etropic, 23(Special Issue 2), 197-212.
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2024 Treagus, M. (2024). Diasporic (Be)longing: Dan Taulapapa McMullin's ‘The Viole(n)t Cat’. Literature Compass, 21(10-12), e70007-1-e70007-6.
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2024 Treagus, M. (2024). Recentring Water: Thinking with the Chain of Ponds. Australian Literary Studies, 39(1), 1-19.
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2021 Treagus, M. (2021). Queer Pacific mobilities: Translocal bodies in the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57(4), 1-14.
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2021 Treagus, M. (2021). Flight of the frigate bird: Ocean Island, phosphate mining and Project Banaba. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 12(1), 103-132.
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2021 Papadelos, P., Beasley, C., & Treagus, M. (2021). Social change and masculinities: exploring favourable spaces?. Journal of Sociology, 59(2), 144078332110482.
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2020 Treagus, M. (2020). Time and transition in the work of Lee Harrop. Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, 40(1), 48-51.
2019 Seys, M., & Treagus, M. (2019). Introduction: Victorian Interfaces. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 23(1), i-x.
2019 Seys, M., & Treagus, M. (2019). Introduction: Victorian Interfaces. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 23(1), i-x.
2018 Treagus, M. (2018). Oceania. Artlink, 2018, 1-12.
2017 Treagus, M. A., & Seys, M. (2017). Looking Back at Samoa: History, Memory, and the Figure of Mourning in Yuki Kihara’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?. asian diasporic visual cultures and the americas, 3(1-2), 86-109.
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2017 Eate, P., Beasley, C., Papadelos, P., Treagus, M., & Augoustinos, M. (2017). Schooling the public on boys: the ongoing salience in media representations of the "crisis" in boys' education. Feminist Media Studies, 17(2), 248-263.
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2014 Treagus, M. (2014). Crossing ‘The Beach’: Samoa, Stevenson and ‘The Beach at Falesá’. Literature Compass, 11(5), 312-320.
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2012 Treagus, M. (2012). From Whakarewarewa to Oxford: Makereti Papakura and the politics of Indigenous self-representation. Australian Humanities Review (print), 52, 35-53.
2012 Treagus, M. (2012). Queering the mainstream: The Slap and 'middle' Australia. JASAL - Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 12(3), 1-9.
2010 Treagus, M. (2010). Pu'aka Tonga. M/C Journal, 13(5), 1-6.
2008 Treagus, M. (2008). Representing Pacific tattoos: Issues in postcolonial critical practice. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 44(2), 183-192.
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2005 Treagus, M. (2005). Playing like ladies: Basketball, netball and feminine restraint. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 22(1), 88-105.
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2004 Treagus, M. (2004). Sporting girls: Exercising gender modes. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 10, 151-167.
2002 Treagus, M. (2002). Not bent at all: Bend It Like Beckham, girls' sport and the spectre of the lesbian. M/C Journal, 5(6), www 1-www 4.
2001 Treagus, M. (2001). Malu and Fetu: Sia Figiel's They Who Do Not Grieve and the postcolonial tattoo. CRNLE Journal (Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English), 2001, 105-114.
2001 Treagus, M. (2001). The body of the imperial mother: Women, exercise and the future of "the Race" in Britain, 1870-1914. Kunapipi, XXIII(1), 138-150.
2000 Treagus, M. (2000). A queer kind of belonging: identity and nation in Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded. CRNLE Journal (Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English), Issue 2000, 219-227.
1998 Treagus, M. (1998). Gazing at the spice girls: audience, power and visual representation. Outskirts, 3.
1998 Treagus, M. (1998). Renegotiating the Australian legend: 'Khe Sanh' and the Jimmy Barnes stage persona. Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies, 4, 59-68.
1997 Treagus, M. (1997). The feminist as romantic: Schreiner's Lyndall and the Romance plot. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 3(1), 90-98.
1995 Treagus, M. (1995). Non à la bombe. New Times, 14(10), 9-27.
1995 Treagus, M. (1995). Review of "The Time to Write: Australian Women Writers 1890-1930". Ed. by Kay Ferres. Australian Feminist Studies, 10(21), 229-230.

Year Citation
2018 Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (Eds.) (2018). Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (1st edition ed.). New York: Routledge.
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2018 Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (Eds.) (2018). Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (1st edition ed.). New York: Routledge.
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2014 Tonkin, M., Treagus, M., Seys, M., & De Rosa, S. C. (Eds.) (2014). Changing the Victorian Subject. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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2014 Tonkin, M., Treagus, M., Seys, M., & De Rosa, S. C. (Eds.) (2014). Changing the Victorian Subject. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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2014 Treagus, M. (2014). Empire girls: the colonial heroine comes of age. Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
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- Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (Eds.) (2018). Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific. Routledge.
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- Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (Eds.) (2018). Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific. Routledge.
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Year Citation
2025 Treagus, M. (2025). Inter-racial intimacies: Stevenson's late Pacific tales. In R. J. Hill, & A. E. Francis (Eds.), Scottish Literature of the South Seas: Critical Studies of Scotland and the Pacific (Vol. 35, pp. 128-141). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
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2023 Jose, N., Sutcliffe, A., & Treagus, M. (2023). The Story of an Australian Farm: Olive Schreiner in Australia. In Olive Schreiner Writing Networks and Global Contexts (pp. 244-265).
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2018 Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (2018). Introduction. In M. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (pp. 1-22). New York: Routledge.
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2018 Treagus, M., & Keown, M. (2018). Afterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017). In M. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (1st ed., pp. 202-206). New York: Routledge.
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2018 Treagus, M., & Keown, M. (2018). Afterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017). In M. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (1st ed., pp. 202-206). New York: Routledge.
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2018 Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (2018). Introduction. In M. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (Vol. 12, 1st edition ed., pp. 1-22). New York, NY; USA: Routledge.
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2018 Keown, M., Taylor, A., & Treagus, M. (2018). Introduction. In M. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (Vol. 12, 1st edition ed., pp. 1-22). New York, NY; USA: Routledge.
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2018 Treagus, M. (2018). 'It's Raining in Pago': The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham's 'Rain' and Its Film Adaptations. In K. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (1st edition ed., pp. 91-109). New York, NY; USA: Routledge.
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2018 Treagus, M. (2018). 'It's Raining in Pago': The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham's 'Rain' and Its Film Adaptations. In K. Keown, A. Taylor, & M. Treagus (Eds.), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (1st edition ed., pp. 91-109). New York, NY; USA: Routledge.
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2016 Treagus, M. (2016). Yuki Kihara’s culture for sale and the history of Pacific cultural performance. In K. Alexeyeff, & J. Taylor (Eds.), Touring Pacific Cultures (1 ed., pp. 141-166). Canberra: ANU Press.
2016 Treagus, M. (2016). The South Seas Exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893. In Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible (pp. 45-57).
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2015 Treagus, M. (2015). The orator. In Directory of World Cinema Australia and New Zealand 2 (pp. 235-236).
2014 Treagus, M. (2014). The woman artist and narrative ends in late-Victorian writing. In M. Tonkin, M. Treagus, M. Seys, & S. Crozier De Rosa (Eds.), Changing the Victorian subject (pp. 201-215). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
2014 Tonkin, M., Treagus, M., Seys, M., & Crozier-De Rosa, S. (2014). Re-visiting the Victorian subject. In M. Tonkin, M. Treagus, M. Seys, & S. Crozier De Rosa (Eds.), Changing the Victorian subject (pp. 1-19). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
2013 Treagus, M. (2013). From Khe Sanh to the Caribbean: Cold Chisel's post-Vietnam blues. In T. Dalziell, & P. Genoni (Eds.), Telling stories: Australian life and literature 1935-2012 (pp. 357-362). Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.
2013 Treagus, M. (2013). The South Seas exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893. In R. Fulton, & P. Hoffenberg (Eds.), Oceania and the Victorian imagination: where all things are possible (1 ed., pp. 45-58). United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
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2008 Treagus, M. (2008). 'Britons of the South Seas': The Moari visit to London, 1911. In H. Kerr, & L. Warner (Eds.), Projections of Britain in the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand: 1900-1950 (pp. 52-62). Adelaide, South Australia: Lythrum Press.
2008 Treagus, M. (2008). Agents or Objects? Maori Performances in Britain. In Sue Thomas (Ed.), Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance (pp. 124-142). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2004 Treagus, M. (2004). Spectacles of empire: Maori tours of England in 1863 and 1911. In K. Darian-Smith, P. Grimshaw, K. Lindsey, & S. Macintyre (Eds.), Exploring the British world: Identity - Cultural production - Institutions (pp. 748-764). http://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;isbn=0864593449;res=E-LIBRARY: RMIT Publishing.
1999 Treagus, M. (1999). Televison gothic: The X-Files. In Extensions: essays in English studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls, 1999 (pp. 186-198). Wakefield Press.

Year Citation
2022 Treagus, M. (2022). Playing the Decades (No. Of Pieces: 45) [Musical performance of original songs]. Wheatsheaf Hotel, Thebarton, South Australia.
2021 Treagus, M. (2021). The Flight of the Frigate Bird (No. Of Pieces: 10 minutes) [Creative non-fiction]. The Lab, Adelaide: JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.
2014 Treagus, M. (2014). The Wide Open Road - Bob Dylan Revisited. My segments: 'Hearing Dylan', 'The Tradition and Song Form' and 'Finding His Own Voice' (No. Of Pieces: Total show: 1 hour) [Performance]. Adelaide: Radio Adelaide.

Year Citation
2011 Treagus, M. A., Cover, R., & Beasley, C. (2011). Integrity in Sport Literature Review. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission.

Year Citation
2021 Authors: Treagus M. Title: The Lesbian Mafia. Description: 6th November 2019. part of the Queering the Museum project by the Migration Museum. Extent: 305 words.
2019 Authors: Treagus M. Title: ‘My mother says there’s something queer about you’. Description: Cloth and Paper live curated performance. Friday May 17, 2019. The Chapel, Migration Museum, Adelaide. South Australian History Festival.. Extent: 3 minutes.
2018 Authors: Treagus M. Title: Dropkick. Description: There is no ISSN listed in the publication. Extent: 3 pages.
2016 Authors: Treagus M. Title: From Anthropometry to Maui: A Study of a Samoan Savage. Description: Exhibition held Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery on 27 February – 22 May 2016. Exhibition catalogue contains work by M. Treagus.. Extent: 5 pages.

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2015 Authors: Treagus M. Title: On the Beach. My inputs in the production were:. Description: Wide Open Road – On the Beach. Extent: 60 minute show.
2015 Authors: Treagus M. Title: On the Beach. My inputs in the production were:. Description: Wide Open Road – On the Beach. Extent: 60 minute show.

Year Citation
2018 Treagus, M. (2018). Two Horizons Art Project (No. Of Pieces: 10 x 3 metres) [Art mural]. Tynte St North Adelaide.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Principal Supervisor Connection and Dislocation: Nomadic Cartographies in the Writings of Janette Turner Hospital Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Victoria Rose Circelli
2024 Principal Supervisor The dynamics Pacific regionalism: How power operates within the Pacific Islands Forum Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Solstice Middleby
2023 Co-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
2021 Principal Supervisor Tracing Charlotte Jay: The Geraldine Halls Project Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Jane Costessi
2020 Co-Supervisor Nekyia and Katabasis in 21st century receptions of the Ilaid Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Patrick James Moritz

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Pretty Much a Saga of a Certain Type of Person: Charles Bukowski and Postmodern Humanism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Benjamin Thomas Sorby Adams
2021 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Turning Water: A reading of aqueous tropes in Australian literary fiction from the tropics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Theodora Irini Germanos-Galanis
2020 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Drifting: a Fire Island Derive Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jacob Sunter
2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Dust Country Stories from a Shifting Land Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Samuel Jesse Cox
2019 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Fragments of Self: Contemporary Women’s Life Writing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Meg Madden
2018 - 2025 Principal Supervisor longtaim gutbai: letters, epistolary narrative, memory and truth Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Susan Chamney Hazel
2017 - 2019 Principal 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
2017 - 2020 Principal Supervisor The Masks That Wear Men: The Representation of Masculine Masquerade In 1990s American Action Cinema Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Kate Marie Bowen
2014 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Volume 1 Plumbago: Volume 2 The Aftermath of Psychical Trauma: Finding a Voice Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Eleanor Anne Wills
2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor An Algorithmic Criticism of Audience Manipulation in Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Galen Mereki Cuthbertson
2014 - 2016 Principal 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
2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Writing the Sixties: Stardust and Golden Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Prof Douglas McEachern
2013 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Notes from Above Water: Fictocriticism as Queer Creative Research Practice Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Alison Jane Coppe
2012 - 2016 Principal Supervisor 'Passionately Subjective': Challenges to Identity in the Works of Amy Levy Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Carolyn Louise Lake
2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Illegible Narratives: Towards a Queer Violation of Life Story Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Gretta Jade Mitchell
2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Double Threads: Reading Dress, Fashion, Narrative and Representations of Femininity in Victorian Popular Literature Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Madeleine Claire Seys
2010 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Welcome (A Novel) and 'Women's Rights and Prostitution in Thailand' (An Exegesis) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Lisa Lines
2010 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Sacrifice in Suburbia: American Novels as Troubled Tragedies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Carly Osborn
2009 - 2012 Principal Supervisor ...Fuga...A Novel The Musicalisation of... Fuga: How Music Influenced and Shaped The Writing of a Novel...An Exegesis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Gillian Britton
2009 - 2014 Co-Supervisor The Golden Milkmaid: Writing from the Gaudiya Tradition Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Vaishnavi Heath
2009 - 2011 Co-Supervisor Narrative as healing: centering the Aboriginal voice
Exegesis for minya wunyi gu wonga		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Dylan Coleman
2006 - 2011 Principal Supervisor Deleuze's Differential Ontology and the Problem of Ethics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Hannah Stark
2004 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Rhetoric and Fictions of Aids Master of Arts Master Part Time Rikki Wilde
2003 - 2009 Principal Supervisor A "Nihilistic Dreamboat to Negation"? The Cultural Study of Death Metal and the Limits of Political Criticism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Michelle Phillipov
2002 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Knitting: a Novel/Knitting a Novel: A Retrospective View Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Anne Bartlett
2001 - 2008 Principal Supervisor Masculinities in Drag: A Theoretical Analysis of Female Masculinity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Julie Hanson
1999 - 2003 Co-Supervisor Disconcerting Ecologies Representations of Non-Indigenous Belonging in Contemporary Australian Literature and Cultural Discourse Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Emily Potter
1999 - 2004 Principal Supervisor DISCOURSES OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CONTEMPORARY ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yvette Tan

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2013 - ongoing Board Member Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies - United Kingdom
2012 - ongoing Board Member Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies - Australia
2005 - ongoing Board Member Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies - United States

Date Office Name Institution Country
2017 - ongoing President Australasian Victorian Studies Association Australia
2017 - ongoing President Australian Association for Pacific Studies Australia

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