Tamlyn Avery

I am currently an Adjunct Associate Lecturer at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. I previously worked as a Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, and the Australian Catholic University (ACU). I received my doctorate in English Literature from UNSW, after completing my undergraduate degree there with First Class Honours; I also have a Master's of Teaching, specialising in English. My research interests include in musico-literary studies and African American Literature, and I have published on representations of women's labour, racial characterisation, and the mediatic unconscious in American modernist literature. I am currently writing a book on the regional evolution of the American Bildungsroman; I am interested in how the idealist Enlightenment genre came to house subversive political energies in terms of class, race, and gender relations and structures in American society, all converged upon the perennial figure of 'arrested development'. I am currently an editor of the modernist studies journal, "Affirmations: of the Modern" (Ubiquity Press), where I oversee reviews.