Heather Kerr

Supervision pedagogies: narratives from the field

In designing supervisor development programmes that are appropriate to changing research contexts, it is necessary to draw on both established best practice and emerging innovations that respond to the changing contexts of higher degree research. We undertook a narrative enquiry at an Australian university to establish a clearer understanding of the supervisory models and pedagogies currently employed by effective supervisors. Three key findings have emerged: these supervisors employ a broad range of approaches informed by their own experiences of being supervised; they place great importance on their relationships with students; and they reveal a strong awareness of their own responsibilities in actively developing the emerging researcher identities of their doctoral candidates. These aspects of supervision models should be emphasised in supervisor development programmes.

Shakespeare : world views

Shakespeare: World Views contains fifteen papers selected from the proceedings of the second conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association. Postcolonial and postmodern, political and theatrical, the papers range widely across a plurality of geographical, historical, and theoretical locations.

Emotional Light on Eighteenth-Century Print Culture

An established narrative in eighteenth-century studies of Britain details the early dominance of satire, the increase in sympathetic cultural modes, and the implications for different kinds of sociability generated by the long revolution in print culture.1 In this book, we do not wish to overturn this scholarship because we agree that it addresses fundamental aspects of change and stability in the society and culture of a nation that was rising to global prominence. Certainly the self-congratulatory Whig reading of history that has everything rising on a tide of progress towards some sort of liberal apotheosis has been very validly exposed to revision. Without the iron teleology, however, the chapters in this volume are unified by a conviction that important changes did occur in culture and society during the 1700s, and that they were linked dialogically with shifts in the ways emotions were experienced and valued.

Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible (review)

Review(s) of: Black lives in the English archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible, by Habib, Imtiaz, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. xvi, 415; 6 b/w illustrations, 11 tables; R.R.P. US

The 'Real Lesson of an Education in Visual Culture'

99.00, 60.00 pounds; ISBN 978075465695.

’My Mother Resides in the Beating Artery …’: Engendering Voices for Medieval and Early Modem Studies

In Colonial Photography and Exhibitions ‘the real lesson of an education in the classics’ is, as Jean Paul Sartre commented (in his Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth), that nothing is ‘more consistent than a racist humanism since the European has only been able to become a man through creating slaves and monsters’ (p 149). A disciplinary trajectory is also directly referred to by Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losche in Double Vision and signalled by my title to this essay. After all, Thomas’s comprehensive ‘Introduction’ makes the point that Double Vision:

The space between : Australian women writing fictocriticism

Elizabeth D. Harvey, Ventiloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and English Reniassance Texts (Routledge) London and New York, [1992 rpt], 1995. Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern (eds), Venus and Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modem Europe (University of Western Australia Press) Nedlands, 1995.