Michael Ackland
- michael.ackland@jcu.edu.au
- Adjunct Professor
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Publications
42
Awards
1
Biography
Michael Ackland was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, Monash University, Cologne University and the Australian National University, and taught for many years at Monash University.
He has also taught and lectured widely in Europe and North America. He is fluent in French and German.
His recent temporary positions included Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and at Tokyo University.
The author of numerous monographs, biographies and editions, his most recent book was The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail (Amherst: Cambria Press, 2012). He is currently researching Christina Stead and the Socialist Heritage with an ARC Discovery Grant.
Research
Research Interests
Christina Stead and the Socialist Heritage Haruki Murakami and Japanese social history The Australian Colonial Heritage
Comparative Literature , Art History and the History of Ideas Twentieth Century Literature to the end of the Cold War, with special reference to its political affiliations
Teaching
Completed JCU Research Students
The Ego Made Manifest: Max Stirner, Egoism and the Avant-Garde Literary Manifesto, 1880–1914
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2021
Activities
Awards
Output
Ackland, Michael (2023) 'Australian Fiction and the Lure of Painting'. Le Simplegadi, 23 :37-50. [DOI] ...
Ackland, Michael (2018) 'Fending off Doomsday: Christina Stead's response to postwar, democratic Eur. Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, 9 (2):43-55. ...
Ackland, Michael (2016) 'The Young Man Will Go Far: educational nobility and Christina Stead's compo. Australian Literary Studies, 31 (6). [DOI] ...
Ackland, Michael (2016) 'Who are the biggest cannibals?: Colonial literary reckonings with the dark . 4 (1):43-52. [DOI] ...
Ackland, Michael (2016) ''Reclaiming the rubbish': outcasts, transformation and the topos of the pai. Le Simplegadi, XIV (16):27-36. [DOI] ...
Ackland, Michael (2016) 'Money is a steal: Christina Stead's critique of finance capitalism in House. Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, 7 (1):39-49. ...
Ackland, Michael (2014) 'Morality at bay: the lesson of the Americas in Murray Bail's Homesickness'. Antipodes, 28 (2):275-288. [DOI] ...
"Reality is monstrous": Christina Stead's critique of the triumphant West in The Puzzleheaded Girl
2013
Ackland, Michael (2013) 'Reality is monstrous: Christina Stead's critique of the triumphant West in . Antipodes, 27 (1):11-17. [DOI] ...
Ackland, Michael (2012) ''We are all philosophers; we cannot help being': Credos, Lifechoices and Ph. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 12 (3). ...
Ackland, Michael (2012) 'I am thinking I am free: intransigent reality versus utopian thought in the. Southerly, 72 (1):159-180. ...
Ackland, Michael (2011) 'Beneath the camouflage: mimicry and settler false consciousness in the fict. 17 (2):72-90. ...
Ackland, Michael (2011) 'Dreaming of the Middle Ages: the place of the 'mittelalterlich' and social. Australian Literary Studies, 26 (3-4):54-68. ...
Ackland, Michael (2011) 'Behold Burton's tomb: mortality and escapism in Murray Bail's homesickness'. Southerly, 71 (3):23-39. ...
Ackland, Michael (2011) 'Politics, clichés and the lurky country: Murray Bail's critique of national. 25 :27-41. ...
"Hedging on Destiny": history and its marxist dimension in the early fiction of Christina Stead
2011
Ackland, Michael (2011) 'Hedging on Destiny: history and its marxist dimension in the early fiction . 41 (1):91-109. ...
Ackland, Michael (2011) ''Matisse is jammed with confidence': painting and creative inspiration in t. Westerly, 56 (1):198-215. ...
Ackland, Michael (2011) 'Socialists of a new socialism?: Christina Stead's critique of 1930s America. 78 (2):387-408. ...
Ackland, Michael (2010) 'Christina Stead and the politics of covert statement'. 43 (1):127-142. ...
Ackland, Michael (2008) 'Realigning Christina Stead: A 'red Stead''. Overland, 192 :49-53. ...
Ackland, Michael (2008) 'A cold coming we had of it: the reception of T. S. Eliot, literary modernis. 18 (1):112-121. ...
Ackland, Michael (2008) 'What a history is that? What an enigma ...?: imagination, destiny and socia. Southerly, 68 (3):189-212. ...
A view from the Orient Hotel: phobias, federation, and Albert Dorrington's Asia-Pacific nightmares
2008
Ackland, Michael (2008) 'A view from the Orient Hotel: phobias, federation, and Albert Dorrington's . Antipodes, 22 (1):25-30. ...
Ackland, Michael (2007) 'Love and the great beyond: The spiritualist beliefs that sustained the love. Meanjin, 66 (1):72-77. ...
Ackland, Michael (2007) 'For love alone Review of Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and W. Meanjin, 66 (1):78-82. ...
Ackland, Michael (2006) 'Breeding reptiles of the mind: Blake's dialectics of vision and Stead's cri. 38 (2):234-249. ...
Ackland, Michael (2006) 'The lesson of The Yellow Sand: Robert Drewe's dissection of The Good Old Pa. Westerly, 51 :88-107. ...
Ackland, Michael (2006) 'The triumphant word: Malouf's Heideggerian vision in An Imaginary Life
'. 12 (1-2):239-244. ...
Ackland, Michael (2006) 'Winning the peace?: rewriting Quadrant's past'. Overland, 184 :18-22. ...
Ackland, Michael (2005) 'Henry Handel Richardson's years in Wilhelmine Germany: the most cultured la. 48 (1):147-163. ...
Ackland, Michael (2005) 'In the service of complex truths: the aims and art of Robert Drewe's fictio. Westerly, 50 (0):26-41. ...
Ackland, Michael (2005) 'Only 'a well-schooled interpreter': Henry Handel Richardson's final year at. Australian Literary Studies, 22 (1):51-60. ...
Ackland, Michael (2004) 'Passion by proxy: Henry Handel Richardson's sapphic investment in her early. Antipodes, 18 (2):147-152. ...
Ackland, Michael (2004) 'Polemics anonymous: James McAuley's nom de plume contributions from Hermes . Southerly, 64 (3):180-190. ...
'The argument of the broken pane': Henry Handel Richardson's response to the suffragette movement.
2004
Ackland, Michael (2004) ''The argument of the broken pane': Henry Handel Richardson's response to th. Overland, 174 :51-57. ...
Whatever happened to Coppelius?: antecedents and design in Christina Stead's The Salzburg Tales
2003
Ackland, Michael (2003) 'Whatever happened to Coppelius?: antecedents and design in Christina Stead'. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2 :53-66. ...
Ackland, Michael (2003) 'Wishing papa was dead?: Henry Handel Richardson's recasting of her troubled. Westerly, 48 (0):102-116. ...
Ackland, Michael (2003) 'More than 'a henna gaijin': the shaping of Harold Stewart's affinity with J. 11 :85-95. ...
Ackland, Michael (2022) Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami. Amherst, NY, USA: Cambria Press. ...
Ackland, Michael (2016) Christina Stead and the Socialist Heritage. New York, NY, USA: Cambria Press. ...
Ackland, Michael (2012) The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail. Amherst, NY, USA: Cambria Press. ...
Ackland, Michael (2004) Henry Handel Richardson: a life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ...