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 Biography

Dr Tony Thwaites’s research interests include James Joyce and modernist writing; Freud, Lacan and psychoanalysis; literary criticism and theory; philosophy; Derrida; cultural theory; narratology

Dr Thwaites holds an MA (Qld) and a PhD (Syd) and is a senior lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History.

He is the author of Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory (London and Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE 2007), Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises and Countersignatures (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001), and a number of articles on literary studies, and literary and cultural theory. With Lloyd Davis and Warwick Mules, he co-authored Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2002) and Tools for Cultural Studies: An Introduction (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1994).

With Dan O'Neill, he convenes an annual James Joyce Summer School at Duchesne College in the University of Queensland http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/conferences/Joyce).

His latest book, on Freud as cultural theorist, is due to be published by Sage in February 2006.

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