Dr Anna Johnston

Anna teaches in the English programme in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages. She teaches undergraduate units in Australian and postcolonial literature, and Honours units in travel writing in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

HEA 205/305: Contemporary Australian Writing
HEA 232/332: Postcolonial Fictions
HEA 235/335 : Colonial Imprints
HEA 419 : Contemporary Travel Narratives

At the University of Tasmania, Anna has been awarded a Teaching Merit Certificate (2002) and a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2004).

She has supervised dissertations and theses at Hons, MA, and PhD levels on various topics including:
* “Invasion Narratives in the Australian Imaginary” (Catriona Ross, PhD in progress)
* “Reappraising Forgotten Fictions: The Tasmanian Romances of Marie Bjelke Petersen” (Toni Sherwood, MA 2004)
* “Provincialising Postmodernism: Jameson and American Exceptionalism” (Jacob Fischer, Hons 2004)
* “Ice Dreaming: Reading Whiteness in Kim Scott’s Benang” (Kris Harman, Hons 2004 [joint supervision with Mitchell Rolls, Riawunna])
* “Writ(h)ing Out of Place: The Reel versus the Real in The Satanic Verses and White Teeth” (Solastri Suyot, Hons 2003)
* “Writing the Nation: Representing Asian-Australian Identities” (Catriona Ross, Hons 2002)
* “Contested Terrains: Re-Writing Suburbia and Nation in Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs and Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework” (Emily Bullock, Hons 2001) [See Emily’s article "Re-Writing Suburbia" in M/C]
* “Portrait of an Aboriginal Artist: The Framing of Aboriginality in Sally Morgan’s My Place” (Amber Meredith, Hons 2000

She is available to supervise in the following areas:
* Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction and Non-fiction
* Travel Writing
* Australian Fiction and Non-fiction
* Autobiography

Anna would be pleased to hear from current or prospective students interested in colonial or poscolonial studies - please feel free to email her.