Suzie Gibson

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Dr Suzie Gibson

PhD (University of Queensland) BA Honours (First Class, University of Sydney)

Senior Lecturer in English
Bathurst
Mansfield Building 1411, Room 226

Dr Suzie Gibson teaches nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first-century English, American, and Australian literature, as well as Screen Studies. Her research analyses the resonances and differences between texts, disciplines, and writers. She is trained in feminist and critical theory, and her publishing covers a variety of textual forms and themes, including traditional and experimental forms of literature and philosophy.

  • Professional Writing
  • Media and Culture
  • Australian Literature
  • English Literature
  • Film and Cultural Studies
  • Critical Theory
  • Secrecy and Phenomenology
  • Literature including the writings of Henry James, J.M. Coetzee, Marcus Clarke, and Samuel Beckett
  • Philosophy including the thought of Jacques Derrida, Søren Kierkegaard and Merleau-Ponty
  • Ethics and its relationship to both Literature and Philosophy
  • Popular Culture including the figure of James Bond
  • Women's writing and friendship

Awards/Prizes

  • 2012: Australian Book Review Ian Potter Fellowship Contender
  • 2011: UQ Teaching Excellence Acknowledgement for Inspiring Students
  • 2009: National Finalist for 'Lecturer of the Year' Award
  • 2008: Nominated for a University of New England Teaching Award
  • 2006: UNE Teaching and Learning Development Grant
  • 2005: UNE International Conference Travel Grant
  • 2004: UNE Faculty of Arts Early Career Research Grant
  • 2003: UNE Faculty of Arts Early Career Research Grant
  • 2002: Doctoral Thesis Recommended on the University of Queensland's Dean's List
  • 1993-1996: Australian Postgraduate Research Award

Completed PhD Supervisions

  • 2019: Antony Stephenson, Thesis Title: “Kinds of Blue: The Representation of Australian Police and Policing in Television Drama and Reality Television.” (Principal supervisor with Dr Lachlan Brown as co-supervisor)
  • 2015: Ted Beardow, Thesis Title: “Heroism in the Fiction of Leslie Charteris.” Second Supervisor at the University of New England. (Co-supervised with Dr. Jennifer McDonell)

Current Supervisions

  • 2020: Silvia Wistuba, Working thesis title: “Unearthing the history of the Malweiber: how the past resonates with the present.” (Co-supervising with Dr Sam Bowker)
  • 2020: Connor Weightman, Working thesis title: “Totalising representation for totalising problems: A petropoety suite.” (Co-supervising with Dr Lachlan Brown)

Other supervisions

  • 2003-2009: During my 6-year employment at the University of New England I successfully supervised countless Honours theses, and also acted in the capacity of being a principal supervisor for PhD and Masters degree candidates.

Thesis Examinations

  • 2015: External Examiner for a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing, The Thesis was undertaken through the University of Newcastle, Thesis title: 'Living Like Common People'.
  • 2015: External Examiner for a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing, The Thesis was undertaken through the University of Newcastle Thesis title: 'Relative Strangers'.