Rate My Professor Tanya Dalziell

Professor Tanya Dalziell is a Professor in the School of Humanities' Discipline of English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia, where she serves as Discipline Chair and Chair of the Department of English and Cultural Studies. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, elected in November 2023, she teaches and conducts research in English and Literary Studies. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, postcolonial studies, literary theory, cinema studies, modernism, Australian literature and film, postcolonial and transnational literatures, and literary, gender, and cultural theory. She continues her work on historical and contemporary women's writing in Australia.

Dalziell has held prominent editorial positions, serving as co-editor of Australian Literary Studies with Julieanne Lamond since August 2019 and previously as co-editor of the Journal for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature with Paul Genoni. She is a member of the executive of the Australian University Heads of English Group and Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Her honors include the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction on October 23, 2019, for Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964, co-authored with Paul Genoni; the Walter McCrae Russell Award in July 2005; shortlisting for the Australian University Heads of English Award in November 2021; and shortlisting for the Walter McRae Russell Award in July 2021. Key publications feature monographs Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (2005), Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics (2020), and Joan London (2024), as well as chapters in The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009), The Oxford History of the World Novel in English (2016), The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature: Oceania (2017), and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (2020). A co-authored article with Paul Genoni appears in The Conversation Yearbook 2019. She has published over 50 academic essays, and her book Half the Perfect World is being adapted into a feature film, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.