Susan Sheridan

Susan Sheridan is Adjunct Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. She has published widely on women’s writing, feminist cultural studies and Australian cultural history. Her books include Christina Stead (1988), Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women’s Writing 1880s to 1930s (1995), and Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women’s Weekly in the Postwar Years (2002).
She is editor of Grafts: Feminist Cultural Criticism (1988), Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (1993) with Sue Rowley and Susan Magarey, and Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds (2006) with Paul Genoni. Her current research project is an ARC-funded study of women writers and modernity in mid-twentieth century Australia.