Professor Carole Ferrier    Professor

	Biography

Professor Carole Ferrier’s research interests include women's studies, especially Black women writers; Australian women writers; feminist and Marxist theory; and theorising of race and ethnicity. Books include: Gender, Politcs and Fiction: Australian Women's Novels; The Janet Frame Reader; Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary; Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History.

Professor Ferrier holds a BA Honours(London) and a PhD (Auckland) and teaches in the School of EMSAH , where she has been since 1973.

She is Director: Centre for Research on Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change; President: Australian Women's Studies Association, and founding and current editor of Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal, as well as of the Australian Women's Book Review and one of the editors of Politics and Culture (both the latter at http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr). On this site can also be found detail of other publications and activities.

Professor Ferrier’s current research includes a book on Jean Devanny's novels and Australasian women's fiction in general; a new variorum edition for CUP of D H Lawrence's poetry; contextualization, theorization and collection of Australian working class writing, leading to an anthology and bibliography.

	Keywords
	Humanities: History, Social Sciences: Women's Studies, Social Sciences: Feminism, Humanities: Literary Criticism, Humanities: Editorial Projects, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Fiction