Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier
Emeritus Professor
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
Carole Ferrier is a Professor of Literature and Women's Studies. Her research interests are in Women's and Gender Studies, and Critical and Cultural Studies, especially Black women authors; Australian women writers and Migrant writers; feminist and Marxist theory, and the theorising of race and ethnicity in relation to culture.
After gaining a BA Honours (London) and a PhD (Auckland), she moved in 1973 to teach in the Department of English (now the School of Communication and Arts) at The University of Queensland.
She was Director of the Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change Research Centre from the 1990s, and President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association in the late 90s and early 2000s. She has been convenor of Women's/Gender Studies at UQ since the early 1990s and contributed to the growth and development of the discipline in Australia and beyond. She was also instrumental in the founding of Creative Writing as an academic research discipline at the University, and served as Director of the Australian Studies Centre.
In 1975 she was the founding editor of one of the first international second-wave feminist journals, Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal , now in its forty-second volume, and also took over the editorship of the Australian Women's Book Review in 1999 (https://hecate.comunications-arts.uq.edu.au). She is also on the editorial boards of eight other national/ international journals.
She has published more than a hundred articles and book chapters, presented papers at seventy conferences in Australia and overseas, and regularly organised conferences at The University of Queensland. Books include: Gender, Politics and Fiction: Australian Women's Novels (UQP); The Janet Frame Reader (London: Women's P); Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary (Melbourne UP); As Good As a Yarn with You; Letters Between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark (Cambridge UP); Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History (Melbourne: Vulgar P).
Publications
Book
Ferrier, C. (1999). Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Book Chapters
Ferrier, Carole (2013). Crossing borders and boundaries: ways of reading some contemporary Asian Australian women's fictions. Comparative Literature: East & West. (pp. 1-17) edited by Shunqing Cao. Chengdu, China: Sichuan University Press.
Ferrier, Carole (2010). Teaching African American women's literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the deep north. Teaching African American women's writing.. (pp. 137-156) edited by Gina Wisker. Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ferrier, Carole (2009). Women's liberation, 1965. Hibiscus and ti-tree : Women in Queensland. (pp. 225-229) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan.. St. Lucia, Qld.: Hecate Press.
Ferrier, Carole and Fuller, Diana (2009). Women's house, Brisbane. Hibiscus and ti-tree : Women in Queensland. (pp. 236-240) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan. St. Lucia, Qld.: Hecate Press.
Ferrier, Carole and Jordan, Deborah (2009). Introduction: Women's narratives of Queensland. Hibiscus and ti-tree: Women in Queensland. (pp. 5-18) edited by Carole Ferrier and Deborah Jordan. St Lucia, Australia: Hecate Press.
Ferrier, Carole (2008). 'Never forget that the Kanakas are men': Fictional representations of the enslaved black body. Bodies and voices : The force-field of representation and discourse in colonial and postcolonial studies. (pp. 205-223) edited by Merete Falck Borch, Eva Rask Knudsen, Martin Leer and Bruce Clunies Ross. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York, United States of America: Rodopi B.V..
Ferrier, C. (2006). Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 - ). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers, 1975 - 2000. (pp. 110-115) edited by S. Samuels. USA: Thomson Gale.
Ferrier, C. (2004). Indentured labour. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 51-55) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Evans, R. L., Ferrier, C. and Rickertt, J. A. (2004). Introduction. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 14-18) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Victoria: The Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. and Mansell, K. (2004). Student revolt, 1960s and 1970s. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 266-272) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. (2004). Afterword. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 317-321) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. (2004). Francis Adams. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 76-77) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. and Fuller, D. (2004). Women's house. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 285-290) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. (2004). Women's liberation. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 254-258) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. and Jordan, D. (2004). Women's suffrage struggles. Radical Brisbane: An unruly History. (pp. 102-109) edited by R. Evans and C. Ferrier. Melbourne: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. (2003). "These Girls on the Right Track" : Hardy, Devanny and Hewett. Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment. (pp. 71-87) edited by P. Adams and C. Lee. Carlton North, Victoria, Australia: The Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. (2002). Jean Devanny (1894-1962). Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1915-1950. (pp. 88-98) edited by S. Samuels. U.S.A.: Thomson Gale.
Ferrier, Carole (2002). 'A whole other story vibrating within it': some approaches to the 'New Literatures'. Crabtracks: progress and process in teaching the New Literatures in English. (pp. 111-140) edited by Collier, Gordon and Schulze-Engler, Frank. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Ferrier, C. (2002). Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers. Socialist Cultures East and West: A Post Cold War Reassessment. (pp. 139-147) edited by D. Juraga and M.K. Booker. Connecticut, USA: Praegar Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.
Ferrier, Carole (2002). Sugar heaven and the reception of working class texts. Sugar Heaven. (pp. 264-272) edited by Nicole Moore. Carlton North, Vic., Australia: Vulgar Press.
Ferrier, C. (1999). White blindfolds and black armbands: The uses of whiteness theory for reading Australian cultural production. Unmasking Whiteness. (pp. 68-78) edited by B. McKay. Brisbane: Qld Studies Cen..
Journal Articles
Ferrier, Carole (2020). Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 51 (3), 351-353. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2020.1786900
Ferrier, Carole (2017). Preoccupations of some Asian Australian women's fiction at the turn of the twenty-first century. eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 16 (2), 118-140. doi: 10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3619
Ferrier, Carole (2017). Editorial. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 42 (2), 4-6.
Ferrier, Carole (2016). Resistance and sovereignty in some recent Australian Indigenous women's novels. Ilha do Desterro, 69 (2), 17-31. doi: 10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p17
Ferrier, Carole (2015). Christina Stead's Poor Women of Sydney, Travelling into our Times. The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 15 (3).
Ferrier, Carole (2013). Editorial: a changing climate?. Hecate, 38 (1/2), 5-8.
Ferrier, Carole (2013). Jean Devanny's fictional critique of whiteness and race relations in North Queensland. etropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 12 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.25120/etropic.12.2.2013.3386
Ferrier, Carole (2011). Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms. Margaret Henderson and Ann Vickery, eds, 2009. Wollongong, NSW: Australian Literary Studies. The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers. Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery, 2009. Canberra: Na. Australian Feminist Studies, 26 (67), 153-158. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2011.546334
Ferrier, Carole (2009). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 21 (1-2)
Ferrier, Carole (2009). Jean Devanny as an Australasian 'woman of 1928'. Hecate: An interdisciplinary of women's liberation, 35 (1/2), 187-203.
Ferrier, Carole (2008). Editorial. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 34 (1), 4-5.
Ferrier, Carole (2008). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 20 (1-2)
Ferrier, Carole (2008). "Disappearing memory" and the colonial present in recent indigenous women's writing. JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Special Issue, 37-55.
Ferrier, Carole (2007). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 19 (1-2)
Ferrier, C. (2007). Jean Devanny, 1894-1962. Kotare: New Zealand Notes and Queries, Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography - Women Prose Writers to World War I, Special Issue One, 1-29.
Ferrier, Carole (2007). Editorial. Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 33 (2), 1-3.
Ferrier, Carole (2006). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 18 (1-2)
Ferrier, C. (2006). The best Australian novel for years... Review of Alexis Wright's 'Carpentaria'. Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review, 18 (2)
Ferrier, Carole (2006). Editorial: [From the late 1960s, critical forms of history and literature have opened up a space for marginalised or silenced voices to counteract conservative or repressive regimes and ideologies.]. Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 32 (1), 4-7.
Ferrier, C. (2006). So, what is to be done about the family?. Australian Humanities Review, 39-40, 1-19.
Ferrier, Carole (2005). Women's and gender studies in Australia today. Irish Feminist Review, 1, 15-19.
Ferrier, Carole (2005). Editorial. Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 31 (1), 4-5.
Ferrier, Carole (2005). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 17 (1-2)
Ferrier, C (2005). The dictionary of literary biography, vol 289: Australian writers 1950-1975. Australian Literary Studies, 22 (2), 258-260.
Ferrier, Carole (2004). Editorial. Hecate, 30 (2), 4-10.
Ferrier, Carole (2004). Editorial. Hecate, 30 (1), 5-9.
Ferrier, C. (2004). The travels, trials and travails of the new woman in Australasia. Australian Studies, 17 (2), 95-112.
Ferrier, Carole (2004). Editorial. Politics and Culture, 2004 (4), Online.
Ferrier, C. (2004). Editorial. Politics and Culture, 2004 (4), 1-3.
Ferrier, Carole (2004). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 16 (1-2)
Ferrier, C. (2003). Is Feminism Finished?. Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 29 (2), 6-22.
Ferrier, Carole (2003). Review of Anne Pender, "Christina Stead: Satirist" (Common Ground Publishing) Altona, Vic., 2002. Australian Feminist Studies, 18 (40), 108-110. doi: 10.1080/0816464022000056321
Ferrier, Carole (2003). Editorial: Back to the Fifties?. Politics and Culture, 2003 (4), Online.
Ferrier, Carole (2003). Preface. Hecate, 29 (2), 5-5.
Ferrier, Carole (2003). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 14 (2)
Ferrier, Carole (2003). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 15 (1-2)
Dever, Maryanne and Ferrier, Carole (2003). Editorial. Hecate, 29 (1), 4-6.
Ferrier, C. (2002). Introduction. Politics and Culture (2), 1-5.
Ferrier, C. (2002). Editorial. Australian Women's Book Review, 14 (1)
Ferrier, C. (2002). Editorial. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 14 (2)
Ferrier, C. (2002). Editorial. Hecate, 28 (1), 1-190.
Ferrier, C. (2002). Editorial. Hecate, 28 (2), 4-8.
Ferrier, Carole (2001). Editorial. Hecate, 27 (1), 4-5.
Ferrier, C. (2001). Introduction. Hecate, 27 (1), 6-10.
Ferrier, C. (2001). Jean Devanny in Australia and the Soviet Union. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 35, 113-127.
Ferrier, C. (2001). Literary Lives in Letters. Journal of the National Library of Australia, 14-17.
Ferrier, C. (2001). Editorial. Hecate, 27 (2), 3-6.
Ferrier, C. (2000). 'One of the greatest of our women': Jean Devanny's revolutionary Marxism. Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry (2)
Ferrier, C. (2000). What did Beauvoir mean?. Hecate, 26 (1), 197-204.
Ferrier, C. (1999). Editorial. Hecate: An interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 25 (1), 4-9.
Ferrier, C (1998). Review of 'Writing in hope and fear: Literature as politics in postwar Australia'. Australian Historical Studies, 29 (110), 175-176. doi: 10.1080/10314619808596066
Conference Paper
Ferrier, C. (1999). The uses of whiteness theory in critical discourses of race. Australian Literature & the Public Sphere, Toowoomba, Univ. of Southern Qld, 3-7 July, 1998. Toowoomba: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
Newspaper Article
Ferrier, C. (2002, 07 06). Savage Stead The Courier-Mail