Dr Jennifer Rutherford
Senior Lecturer, English
Qualifications
PhD UNSW, DEA EHESS, Paris, BA Hons. (First Class), Macquarie, BA Newcastle
Biography
Jennifer Rutherford teaches in the English discipline. Her research encompasses Australian literary cultures, race relations, and social, literary and psychoanalytic theory. She holds degrees in Sociology, the Sciences of Language, and Social Anthropology and has trained as a psychoanalyst with the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne, Paris. She was the Foundation Convener of the Australian Studies Program at ANU from 1994-1998 and has held Research Fellowships in English at the University of Sydney, and in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. From 2004-6 she was a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University where she taught courses in writing and cultural and literary theory. Her specialisations include colonialism and race relations in Australian literature, Australian nationalism in literary and social cultures, melancholy and Lacanian psychoanalysis.She has recently edited Shared Space Brokered Time, a special issueof Southerly on the work of Australian spatial theorist, cultural historian and artist Paul Carter, and The Poetics of Australian Space (with Barbara Holloway) forthcoming UWA press, 2008.
Teaching
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106-102 Modern Literature
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106-046 Australia and the Colonial Imaginary
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106-454 Melancholy in Australian literature
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Current research
- Hansonella; Mytho-poetics and the Nation. (forthcoming Giramondo Press)
- Southern Saturnalia: Melancholy in Australian writing (with Brian Castro)
Recent Appointments
- 2006 Senior Lecturer, English, School of Culture and Communication, University Of Melbourne
- 2006 Chair, Human Rights Ethics Advisory Group, School of Culture and Communications
- 2005 Oz Reader, Australian Research Council
- 2002 Sesqui-Centenary Fellow, University of Sydney
Recent Grants and Awards
- 2004 The Poetics of Australian Space, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The University of Sydney Conference $10,000
- 2003 Race Fellowship (with Dr Judy Lattas) to fund a PhD candidate in the field of democracy and extremism
- 2002 Sydney University Sesqui centenary Grant, $25,000
- 2001 Ordinary People a documentary on the Australian One Nation Party.(with M. Ansara) Film finance for a National interest documentary (with ABC funding and screening) $250,000
- 2000 Ordinary People Australian Film Commission (with Mansard) $100,000
- 2000 Ordinary People (with M. Ansara) Search Foundation grant, $10,000
- 2000 Ordinary People N.S.W. National film and Television Office grant (with M. Ansara), $20,000
- 1998 The Rhetoric, Eros and Morality of Extreme Nationalism Macquarie University, $14,500
- Macquarie University Research Fellow
- 1995 National Priority Reserve seeding grant (with Prof. I. McCalman) to establish a graduate program in Australian Studies, $92,000
Conferences
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The Poetics of Australian Space. Director, (with Dr Lisa Slater) in collaboration with The Art Gallery of NSW and The University of Sydney 2005
- New Writing on the New Right Director (with Dr Judy Lattas) 2000
- The Nation is My Thing Director (with Dr Judy Lattas), in collaboration with RHISS, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University. 2001
- Psychoanalysis and Cultural Malaise, Director, ANU. 1994
Recent Key Notes and Public Lectures
- "Melancholy Encryptions, Remembering Patrick White", Sydney Literary Festival 2007
- "Parrots and Swans", Key-Note, ASAL, 2006
- "Fugitives, Pugilists and Funambulists", Heat at Sydney Grammar, 2005
- Diffusions; Theorising the Politics and Practices of the Global, Key-Note lecture ANU 2005
- "Writing the Square; Paul Carter's Nearamnew, Strange Localities, Utopias, intellectuals and National Identities, International Guest Speaker, Otago University, 2004
- "Cutting Ordinary; An ABC True Story", International Guest Lecture Tour, University of Otago, University of Dunedin, University of Waikato, University of Auckland, 2002
- The Caroline Chisholm Lecture, La Trobe University, 2002
- "Cutting Ordinary; An ABC True Story", The Post Colonial institute, 2002, The Metissage Conference, 2001
- "One Love Too Many; The Rise and Fall of Pauline Hanson", The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry
Films
- Ordinary People, (A Film Australia special Interest project),Documentary film, 52 minutes.Written and Directed by Jennifer Rutherford, produced by Martha Ansara and Jennifer Rutherford, in association with Film Australia, the Australian Film Commission and with the assistance of the NSW Film and Television Office and the ABC. Credits: Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Researcher
Screenings include:
- National Broadcasters ABC, Australia 2001. Repeated 2002 YLE, Finland
Festivals
- Highly Commended - Documentary Category - Dendy Awards, Australia
- Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films (MIFF), India
- Iris Centre, Festival International de Films de Femmes, France; Chauvel Cinema
- Chauvel Cinema, "Real Life on Film" Festival Sydney, May 2002, Melbourne, May 2002
- Ausfest; The Inaugural Australian Video and Film festival, Queensland, October 2002
Publications
Books
- Rutherford J and Barbara Holloway, (eds) The Poetics of Australian Space forthcoming 2008, UWA Press
- Rutherford J. (ed.) "Shared Space; Brokered Time - the work of Paul Carter", Southerly. Vol. 2 2006
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Rutherford, J., The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy, Melbourne University Press, 2000
Monographs
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Rutherford, J. Cutting Ordinary; An ABC True Story
Journal articles and book chapters
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Rutherford, J. "Melancholy Land", The Poetics of Australian Space, ed. Jennifer Rutherford and Barbara Holloway, UWA press forthcoming 2008
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Rutherford, J. "Melancholy Encryptions in Castro"s The Garden Book, forthcoming HEAT, 2008
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Rutherford, J "Melancholy Secrets; Rosa Praed's Encrypted father", Double Dialogues, Summer, 2007
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Rutherford, J. "Clay Cloth Corps", Anatomy and Poetics Double Dialogues 6. 2006.
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Rutherford, J. "It is forbidden", Australian Universities Review, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2006.
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Rutherford J. "The I. The Eye and the Orifice;" An interview with Catherine Millet (Paris 2002), Heat. April 2005.
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Rutherford, J. "The Unusable F. Word, Fascism and the Australian Media", Social Alternative Special Issue: (ed. Peter Manning), February 2005.
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Rutherford, J. "Writing the Square; Nearamnew and the Art of Federation", Portal. An International journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. Special issue Strange Localities: Utopias, intellectuals and National identities in the 21st Century, ed. Alistair Fox and Murray Pratt. Vol 2, no. 2, 2005.
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Rutherford, J. "Cutting Ordinary; An ABC True Story", Australian Humanities Review, 2002
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Rutherford J., "One love too many; the undoing of Pauline Hanson", Special Issue: "Pauline Hanson" The Australian Journal of History and Politics, no 4, 2000.
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Rutherford, J., "Staging Ireland: Ireland as Conceit in contemporary Australian narratives of belonging", in Philip Bull, Frances Devlin-Glass and Helen Doyle (eds), Ireland and Australia, 1798-1998: Studies in Culture, Identity and Migration, Crossing Press, Sydney, August 2000.
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Rutherford, J., "The Colonising Victim", in The Dilemma of Identity and Exile: Myths and Realities in the English Speaking World, Rudopi, Amsterdam, 2000.
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Rutherford, J., "Being for the Nation: Masculine Sacrifice in My Brother Jack", Meridian, vol.17, no. 1, 1998.
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Rutherford, J., "Diana: The Hour of our Death", in Planet Diana; Cultural Studies and Global Mourning, ed. Re: Public, Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney, 1997.
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Rutherford, J., "Identifying an Australian Gaze/Identifying an Australian Perversion: Rereading The Fortunes of Richard Mahony", Meridian, vol. 16, no. 2, 1997.
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Rutherford, J., "'Thursa, Myrtle, Turtle, Tortoise': the discourse of the unconscious speaks from the empty place of das Ding", Meridian, vol. 16, no. 2, 1997.
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Rutherford, J., "Johnno and the Tragedy of Desire," The Australian Mind, ed. Craig Powell, Language and Literature Association, Sydney, 1995.
- Rutherford, J., "Jacques Lacan", in A Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Thomas Mautner, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1997.
Review essays
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Rutherford, J., "Psychoanalysis and the Interpellation of Femininity; some thoughts on Roudinesco's Madness and Revolution" (Review essay), Australian Journal of Psychotherapy, vol. 12, no. 2, 1993.
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Rutherford, J. "Eden Liddelow's After Electra" (Review Essay), Australian Book Review February 2002.