Carole Ferrier

Carole Ferrier is a Feminist Australian Academic. She is Professor in English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. She has many published works about feminism, socialism, literature and culture. She has been the editor the radical feminist journal Hecate since its inception in 1975.

Early life

Ferrier was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours in London, and a PhD in New Zealand, at the University of Auckland [ [http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/ferrierc.html Biography - uqresearchers] ] .

Academic Work

Ferrier has lectured in English at the University of Queensland since 1973 [ [http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/ferrierc.html Biography - uqresearchers] ] . She is currently Professor in English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. Ferrier is also the Director of the Centre for Research on Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change at the University of Queensland, the president of the Australian Women’s Studies Association [ [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/awsa/contacts.html AWSA Director President: Carole Ferrier/ - uqresearchers] ] and editor of "Hecate" and the "Australian Womans Book Review" [ [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=17750&pid= Professor Carole Ferrier] ] .

Publications and Editorial work

Amongst her many other published works, Ferrier has authored "Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary" (Melbourne University Press, 1999).

She has also edited
* "Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation" ( [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Publ_Hecate/hecate.htm| as foundation editor] )
* (With Raymond Evans), "Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History". Melbourne: Vulgar Press 2004.
* "Gender, Politics and Fiction: 20th Century Australian Women's Novels". , 1992.
* "Point of Departure: The Autobiography of Jean Devanny". St Lucia: UQP, 1986.
* "As Good as a Yarn With You: Letters Between Franklin, Prichard, Devanny, Barnard, Eldershaw and Dark." Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
* "Janet Frame: A Reader." London: [http://www.the-womens-press.com/ Women's Press] , 1995. [ [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=17750&pid= Professor Carole Ferrier] ] .

References

ee also

* List of feminists

External links

* [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=17750&pid= Professor Carole Ferrier]
* [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Home/home.htm Most recent volume of Hecate]