Dr Philip Butterss

Telephone	+61 8 8303 4562
Position	Senior Lecturer
Email	philip.butterss@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 4341
Building	Napier
Floor/Room	6 10
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	English

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Biography/ Background

Phil studied at the University of Sydney where he completed an Honours degree in Early English Literature and Language, a Master's degree in Middle Welsh, and a PhD in Australian Literature.

His teaching and research interests are Australian Literature and Australian Film.

Publications

Edited Works include:

The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, (with Elizabeth Webby), Ringwood: Penguin, 1993.
Southwords: Essays on South Australian Writing, Kent Town: Wakefield, 1995.

Book Chapters include:

'Introduction' to Steele Rudd, On Our Selection, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1992, v-xiii.
'Fidelia Hill: Finding a Public Voice', in Philip Butterss, ed., Southwords: Essays on South Australian Writing, Kent Town: Wakefield, 1995, 16-26.
'Becoming a man in Australian film in the early 1990s: The Big Steal, Death in Brunswick, Strictly Ballroom and The Heartbreak Kid', in Ian Craven, ed., Australian Cinema in the 1990s, London: Frank Cass, 2001, 79-94.
'"Ar, if a bloke wus only understood!" C. J. Dennis and The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke', Living History: Essays on History as Biography, ed. Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round, Adelaide: Australian Humanities, 2005, 113-26.
'Compounded of incompatibles': The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and The Moods of Ginger Mick', in Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour, ed. Peter Kirkpatrick and Fran de Groen, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008, 16-27.
'Introduction' to C.J. Dennis, The Moods of Ginger Mick, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009, v-ix.

Journal Articles include:

'Wild Colonial Boys' Games: Bold Jack Donahoe to R.J. Hawke', Meanjin 48.3 (1989), 561-71.
'When being a man is all you've got: Masculinity in Romper Stomper, Blackrock, Idiot Box and The Boys', Metro 117 (1998): 40-46.
'Australian Masculinity on the Road', Media International Australia 95 (2000): 227-36.
'Gadding About: C. J. Dennis and the Gadfly', Southerly 64.3 (2004): 158-71.
'"Parnassus Slope": C.J. Dennis's First Years in Victoria', Southerly 67.1-2 (2007): 254-71.
'"Your Vote Is Wanted": C.J. Dennis at the Call', JASAL 7 (2007): 97-106.

Contributions to Reference Works include:

'Broadside Ballads, The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore, ed. Graham Seal and Gwenda Davey, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993, 48-53.
'Ian Mudie', Australian Dictionary of Biography vol. 15: 1940-1980, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000: 437.
'C.J. Dennis, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Literature 1915-1950, ed., Selina Samuels, Columbia: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002, 81-7.

Entry last updated: Friday, 9 Oct 2009

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