Dr Clara Tuite
Senior Lecturer, English
Biography
Clara Tuite completed her BA at the Australian National University (1988) and her PhD at the University of Sydney (1996). She joined the Melbourne Department of English in 1997.
Teaching
- 106-060 Decadent Literature
- 106-230 Reverberations of Terror: 1789-1900
- 106-457 Literary Pleasure
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Current research
- “Lord Byron and the Rites of Scandalous Celebrity”, funded by ARC Discovery Grant (2003-5).
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“Women writers and the production of British history, 1763-1886”, collaborative interdisciplinary project with Mary Spongberg (History, Macquarie University), funded by ARC Discovery Grant (2007-9).
Principal publications
Monographs and Edited Books
- Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2008).
- The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2008).
- Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840, ed. Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite (Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2006).
- An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832, General Editor, Iain McCalman, Associate editors, Jon Mee, Gillian Russell, Clara Tuite (Oxford University Press, 1999, 2001).
Book chapters
- “Trials of the Dandy: George Brummell’s Scandalous Celebrity,” in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, ed. Tom Mole (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009).
- “Historical Fiction,” in Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, ed. Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine and Ann Curthoys (London: Palgrave, 2005).
- "Period Rush: Queer Austen, Anachronism and Critical Practice," in Re-Drawing Austen, ed. Beatrice Battaglia and Diego Saglia (Naples: Liguori, 2004), 294-311.
- “Introducing Romantic Sociability” (with Gillian Russell), in Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 1-23.
- “The Byronic Woman: Anne Lister’s Style, Sexuality and Sociability,” in Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 186-210.
- “Decadent Austen Entails: Forster, James, Firbank and the 'Queer Taste' of Sanditon,” in Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees, ed. Deidre Lynch (Princeton University Press, 2000), 115-139.
- “Domestic Retrenchment and Imperial Expansion: The Property Plots of Mansfield Park,” in The Postcolonial Jane Austen, eds. You-me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (London: Routledge, 2000, 2004), 93-115.
- “Domesticity,” in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832 (General Editor, Iain McCalman, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2001), 125-32.
- “William & Mary: Muse, Editor and Executrix in the Shelley Circle” (with Judith Barbour), in The Textual Condition: Rhetoric & Editing, eds. Maurice Blackman, Frances Muecke and Margaret Sankey (Newtown: Local Consumption Press, 1995), 92-109.
Edited Journals
- “Women and the Writing of British History,” Special Issue, Women’s History Review, ed. Mary Spongberg and Clara Tuite (forthcoming 2009).
Journal Articles
- “Late Disturbances: Figuration, Temporality and Empire in An Essay on Irish Bulls,” Women’s History Review (forthcoming 2009)
- “Maria Edgeworth’s Déjà-Voodoo: Interior Decoration, Retroactivity and Colonial Allegory in The Absentee,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 20: 3 (Spring 2008): 385-413.
- “Tainted Love and Romantic Literary Celebrity,” ELH 74:1 (March 2007): 59-88.
- “Frankenstein's Monster and Malthus’s ‘Jaundiced Eye’: Population, Body Politics and the Monstrous Sublime,” Eighteenth-Century Life Vol 22 n.s. 1 (February 1998): 141-155.
- “Cloistered Closets: Enlightenment Pornography, The Confessional State, Homosexual Persecution and The Monk,” Romanticism on the Net 8 (November 1997).