Dr Mandy Treagus

Biography/ Background

In the Discipline of English at Adelaide since 1996.

Qualifications

PhD (1998) University of Adelaide
Honours English (1992)
Grad Dip Teaching (1977)
BA (1976)

Teaching Interests

The Sixties: From the Beats to Bongs

Body Language

Icons of Decadence

Research Interests

Cultural history of the display of Pacific peoples in colonial exhibitions

Literary representations of the Pacific

Literature and culture 1880-1900

Gender, sexuality and postcolonialism

 

Publications

Books

Keown, Michelle, Andrew Taylor and Mandy Treagus. Eds. Discourses of Imperialism in the Pacific: The Anglo-American Encounter. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. forthcoming

 Book Chapters

 Mandy Treagus. ‘It’s Raining in Pago’: Romance, Race and Religion in the Film Adaptations of W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Rain’. Keown, Michelle, Andrew Taylor and Mandy Treagus. Eds. Discourses of Imperialism in the Pacific: The Anglo-American Encounter. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. forthcoming

 Mandy Treagus. ‘The last plane out of Sydney’s almost gone’. Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures, 1935-1912. Ed. Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziel. Melbourne: Monash UP, 2013. In press. 

Mandy Treagus. ‘The South Seas Exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893’. Where All Things Are Possible: Oceania, the East and the Victorian Imagination. Ed. Richard Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. 45-57.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Agents or Objects: Maori Performances in Britain’.  Victorian Traffic. Ed. Sue Thomas.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 124-42.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘‘‘Britons of the South Seas”: The Maori Visit to London, 1911’.  Projections of Britain. Ed. Heather Kerr & Lawrence Warner. Adelaide: Lythrum, 2008. 52-62.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Spectacles of Empire: Maori Tours of England in 1863 and 1911’.  Exploring the British World. Ed. Kate Darian Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey and Stuart Macintyre. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004. 749-764.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Television Gothic: The X-Files’.  Extensions: Essays in English Studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls. Ed. Sue Hosking and Dianne Schwerdt.  Adelaide: Wakefield, 1999. 186-198.

 Refereed Journal Articles

Mandy Treagus. ‘Queering the Mainstream: The Slap and “Middle” Australia ’. JASAL 12.3 (2012).forthcoming

Mandy Treagus. ‘From Whakarewarewa to Oxford: Makereti Papakura and the Politics of Indigenous Self-Representation’. Australian Humanities Review 52 (2012). http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-May-2012/treagus.html.

Mandy Treagus. ‘Pu‘aka Tonga’. M/C Journal 13.5 (2010). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/287.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Representing Pacific Tattoos: Issues in Postcolonial Critical Practice’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.2 (2008): 183-192. 

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Playing Like Ladies: Basketball, Netball and Feminine Restraint’.  The International Journal of the History of Sport 22.1 (2005): 88-105.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Sporting Girls: Exercising Gender Modes’.  Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 10 (2004): 151-167. 

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Not Bent At All: Bend It Like Beckham, Girls’ Sport and the Spectre of the Lesbian’.  M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 5.6 (2002).  Online.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘The Body of the Imperial Mother: Women, Exercise and the Future of ‘the Race’ in Britain, 1870-1914’.  Kunapipi 23.1 (2001): 138-150.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Malu and Fetu: Sia Figiel’s They Who Do Not Grieve and the Postcolonial Tattoo’.  CRNLE New Series 2 (2001): 105-114.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘A Queer Kind of Belonging: Identity and Nation in Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded’.  CRNLE Journal New Series 1 (2000): 219-227.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Australian Literature and the Teaching of ‘Nation”’.  Southerly 60 (1999): 16-21.

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Gazing at the Spice Girls: Audience, Power and Visual Representation’. Outskirts 3 (1998).  http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume3/treagus

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Renegotiating the Australian Legend: “Khe Sanh” and the Jimmy Barnes Stage Persona’. Limina 4 (1998): 59-68.

 Mandy Dyson.  ‘The Feminist as Romantic: Schreiner’s Lyndall and the Romance Plot’.  Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 3.1 (1998): 90-98.

 Mandy Dyson. ‘“near the heart of the imperial ethic”: Imperialism, Patriarchy and the Boarding School in The Getting of Wisdom’. Crossing Lines: Formations in Australian Culture. Ed. Caroline Guerin, Philip Butterss and Amanda Nettelbeck. Adelaide. ASAL, 1996. 144-48.

 Mandy Dyson. ‘“those marvellous perhapses”: Form and the Feminine in The Getting of Wisdom’. LiNQ 20.2 (1993): 83-88.

 Entries in Reference Works

Mandy Treagus. Entry on The Orator. Directory of World Cinema. Vol. IV. Australia and New Zealand. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. In press.

Mandy Treagus. Entry on Once Were Warriors. Directory of World Cinema. Vol. III. Australia and New Zealand. Chicago: Intellect, 2010. 268-69.

 Mandy Treagus. Entry on River Queen. Directory of World Cinema. Vol. III. Australia and New Zealand. Chicago: Intellect, 2010. 272-73.

 Mandy Treagus. Entry on Whale Rider. Directory of World Cinema. Vol. III. Australia and New Zealand. Chicago: Intellect, 2010. 277-79.

 Commissioned Research

 Mandy Treagus, Rob Cover & Christine Beasley. Integrity in Sport Literature Review. Australian Sports Commission. 2011.

 Reviews in Refereed Journals

 Mandy Treagus.  Review of Pamela K. Gilbert, Mapping the Victorian Social Body, and Peter K Garrett, Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 11 (2005): 183-87.

 Mandy Treagus.  Review of the Oxford Literary History of Australia Ed. by Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss.  Journal of Australian Studies 66 (2000): 241-242.

 Mandy Dyson.  Review of The Time to Write: Australian Women Writers 1890‑1930.  Ed. Kay Ferres. Australian Feminist Studies 21 (1995): 229-30.

 Mandy Dyson.  Review of The End of a Childhood: The Complete Stories of Henry Handel Richardson. CRNLE Reviews Journal 2 (1993): 58-61.

 Creative Works

 Mandy Treagus. ‘Heart’. Adelaide: Acorn Productions, 27 October, 2011.

 Long list of song writing credits.

 Non-Academic publications

 Mandy Treagus.  ‘Doing The Night Watch with Sarah Waters’.  Dykonoclast Mar-Apr (2006): 18-20.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘The Last Days of Melanie and Lindsey: Lesbians on Queer As Folk’.  Dykonoclast Jan-Feb (2006): 18-20.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘The Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Psycho’.  Dykonoclast Sept-Oct (2005): 18-19.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Flirting With Lesbianism’.  Dykonoclast July-Aug (2005): 18-19.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Coming Out on The Simpsons’.  Dykonoclast May-June (2005): 18-19.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Libertas! Lesbian Arts Festival’.  Lesbian Network 71 (2005): 12-15.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘The L-Word’.  Dykonoclast Jan-Feb (2005): 10-11.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Frocks, Friends and Feminism’.  ‘Saturday’.  The Advertiser  Review Nov 13, 2004.  6-7.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Smooth and Sweet: An Album to Savour.’  S.C.A.L.A News.  98 (2004): 6-7.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Drag Kinging: The New Lesbian Chic?’ Lesbian Network 64 (2001): 14-15.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Why Are Dykes Watching Buffy?’  Lesbian Network 62 (2001): 14-17.

Mandy Treagus.  ‘Non a la bombe’.  New Times 14.10 (1995): 9, 27.

 

Professional Associations

Editorial board: Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies & Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies

Member: Executive, Australasian Victorian Studies Association; Australasian Performing Rights Association & SCALA

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Entry last updated: Sunday, 3 Mar 2013