Dr Ruth Blair
Honorary Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
Dr Ruth Blair's research interests include Melville; the Pacific; and Environmental writing.
Her current research includes environmentalism and literary studies, and American and Australian environmental writing.
She is the author of articles on Herman Melville and early writing about the Pacific, and the editor of: Oxford World's Classics edition of Melville's Typee.
Book Chapters
Blair, Ruth (2012). Figures of life: Beverley Farmer's The Seal Woman as an Australian bioregional novel. The bioregional imagination: literature, ecology, and place. (pp. 164-180) edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster and Ezra J. Zeitler. Athens, Georgia, USA: University of Georgia Press.
Blair, R. M. (2007). "Transported landscapes": Reflections on empire and environment in the Pacific. Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire. (pp. 85-111) edited by HelenTiffin. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York, U.S.A.: Rodopi.
Blair, Ruth M. (2007). Hugging the shore: The green mountains of South-East Queensland. The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers. (pp. 177-197) edited by Cranston, C. A. and Zeller, R.. Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V..
Blair, R. M. (2006). Jessica Anderson (25 September 1916 - ). Australian writers, 1975-2000. (pp. 16-23) edited by Selina Samuels. Detroit, United States of America: Thomson Gale.
Journal Articles
Blair, Ruth (2015). Introduction: why pastoral?. Australian Literary Studies, 30 (2), 1-10. doi: 10.20314/als.344f7e39e4
Blair, Ruth (2015). Amanda Lohrey's Vertigo: an Australian postoral. Australian Literary Studies, 30 (2), 117-131. doi: 10.20314/als.3eba9632b6
Blair, Ruth (2013). What we leave behind: exploring multiple environmental legacies in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes. Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, 2 (2012/2013), 17-25.
Blair, Ruth (2013). Review of The Soul of the Desert. Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, 2 (2012/2013), 107-108.
Blair, Ruth (2011). Brisbane river poetry. Fryer folios, 6 (1), 3-6.
Blair, Ruth (2010). The writers of Tamborine Mountain. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-2010.
Blair, Ruth (2010). Brisbane River and Moreton Bay: Thomas Welsby. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-2010.
Slovic, Scott and Blair, Ruth (2009). A booklist of international environmental literature: Australia. World Literature Today, 83 (1), 53-53.
Blair, Ruth (2006). Review of Stephen Lang, An Accidental Terrorist.. Island, 41-42.
Blair, Ruth (2005). Finding home: The poetry of Margaret Scott. Australian Literary Studies, 22 (2), 133-145.
Blair, Ruth M. (2005). Enchanted isles: A response to Robert C. Suggs on 'Typee'. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 51 (1-3), 87-92. doi: 10.1353/esq.2010.0008
Blair, R. M. (2003). Logging Melville. Australasian Journal of American Studies, 22 (2), 79-91.
Blair, R (2001). Review of 'Hearts and minds: Creative Australians and the environment'. Australian Literary Studies, 20 (1), 131-132.
Blair, R. M. (2001). Review of 'Where do we come from? What Are We? Where Are We Going?'. Island, 85 (Autumn), 112-114.
Blair, Ruth (1987). Jessica Anderson's mysteries. Island Magazine, 31, 10-15.
Conference Paper
Blair, R. M., Robertson, J. and Kato, K. (2001). Myth management, image-making and whaling. Situating the Environment at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, 15-16 February 2001. St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.