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Associate Professor Brigid Rooney is a faculty member at the University of Sydney's Discipline of English and Writing. She holds a BA and PhD from Macquarie University. Her research centers on Australian literature, with specialized interests in spatial poetics, suburban narratives, environmental representations, and the public intellectual roles of Australian writers. She has authored significant monographs including Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity (2018) and Literary Activists: Writers and Australian Public Life (2009).
Rooney's publications demonstrate consistent engagement with Australian literary modernity, exploring themes of space/time in suburban contexts, transnational literary connections, and critical reappraisals of major authors like Patrick White and Gerald Murnane. Her recent works show heightened focus on climate fiction, Indigenous perspectives, and multicultural suburban narratives.
She has secured multiple research grants including:
- Thompson Fellowship for 'The Novel and the Suburb in Australia: 1900 to Present' (2014)
- ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship for 'A materialist feminist study of Australian Writers' (2000)
- Collaborative grants on digital humanities and transnational literary studies
Rooney coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate units such as Climate Fiction, Writing Australian Nature, and Reading Suburbia. As Immediate Past President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), she remains active in editorial roles for Australian Literary Studies and JASAL.
