Fiona Morrison

Fiona Morrison is a faculty member at the University of New South Wales, affiliated with the School of English, Media and Performing Arts. Her research focuses on Australian modernism, transnational feminism, and the works of Christina Stead and Henry Handel Richardson.

Current projects include a monograph titled The American Stead, analyzing Stead’s American novels through the lens of her Australian and transnational background and critique of World War II America. She has also contributed to critical editions of Dorothy Hewett’s nonfiction prose, emphasizing political and gendered discourses.

Her publications span topics such as vernacular presence in Tim Winton’s fiction, expatriate subjectivity, and Menippean satire in I’m Dying Laughing. Key themes include postcolonial literature, gendered labor, and the pedagogy of loss in Australian modernist works.

Fields of interest:

• Postcolonial Literature
• Australian Modernism
• Transnational Feminism
• Henry Handel Richardson