Dr Philip Butterss

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

For a full listing of Phil Butterss's publications, see attached file below.

 

Edited Works include

Southwords:  Essays on South Australian Writing. Adelaide: Wakefield, 1995.

 

The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, (with Elizabeth Webby). Ringwood: Penguin, 1993. [New edition 2003]

 

Songs of the Bush:  The First Collection of Australian Folk Song. Kuranda: Rams Skull, 1991.

 

Book Chapters include

‘“Compounded of Incompatibles”: The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and The Moods of Ginger Mick’. Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour, ed. Peter Kirkpatrick and Fran De Groen. St. Lucia: UQP, 2009. 16-27.

 

‘Introduction’ to C.J. Dennis, The Moods of Ginger Mick. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009. v-ix.

 

.“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.

 

‘C.J. Dennis’, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Literature 1915-1950, ed. Selina Samuels. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 81-7.

 

‘Becoming a man in Australian film in the early 1990s: The Big Steal, Death in Brunswick, Strictly Ballroom and The Heartbreak Kid’, Australian Cinema in the 1990s, ed. Ian Craven. London: Frank Cass, 2001. 79-94.

 

‘Representation, Power and Genre in The Piano’. eXtensions: Essays in English Studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls, ed. Sue Hosking and Di Schwerdt. Adelaide: Wakefield, 1999. 158-71.

 

‘From Ned Kelly to Queens in the Desert:  Masculinity in Australian Film’. Social Justice: Politics, Technology and Culture for a Better World, ed. Susan Magarey. Adelaide: Wakefield, 1998. 65-79.

 

‘Broadside Ballads’, The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore, ed. Graham Seal and Gwenda Davey. Melbourne: OUP, 1993. 48-53.

 

‘Introduction’ to Steele Rudd, On Our Selection, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1992. v-xiii.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals include

‘Ada Street, Adelaide: a History’, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 37 (2009): 98-112.

 

‘“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’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 7 (2007): 97-106.

 

‘“Where a youth dreamed dreams”: C.J. Dennis’s early days in South Australia’, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia 34 (2006): 26-38.

 

‘Gadding About: C. J. Dennis and The Gadfly.’ Southerly 64.3 (2004): 158-71.

 

‘A “careful little housewife”: Masculinity in The Sentimental Blokes’, Screening the Past 16 (2004), http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr_16/pbfr16.html

 

‘Australian Masculinity on the Road’, Media International Australia 95 (2000): 227-36.

 

‘When being a man is all you’ve got: Masculinity in Romper Stomper, Blackrock, Idiot Box and The Boys’, Metro 117 (1998): 40-46.

 

‘“Banished from the girl I adore”:  “Moreton Bay” and Irish Transportation Love Songs’, Australian Celtic Journal 3 (1991): 5-11.

 

‘Longing for Harmony:  The Resolution of Conflict and Contradiction in the Songs of the Victorian Goldfields’, Australian Folklore 5 (September 1990): 7-35.

 

‘Wild Colonial Boys’ Games:  Bold Jack Donahoe to R.J. Hawke’, Meanjin 48 (3/1989): 561-71.

 

‘“Bold Jack Donahoe” and the Irish Outlaw Tradition’, Australian Folklore 3 (1989): 3-9.

 

Entries in Reference Works

‘C.J. Dennis’, The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, ed. Wilf Prest. Adelaide: Wakefield, 2002. 147.

 

‘The Jindyworobaks’, The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, ed. Wilf Prest. Adelaide: Wakefield, 2002. 288.

 

‘Ian Mudie’, Australian Dictionary of Biography vol. 15: 1940-1980. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2000. 437.

 

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Entry last updated: Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012