Dr Victor Marsh
Honorary Associate Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
Researcher, writer, editor, television producer.
Originally graduated from University of Western Australia, 1967. Awarded PhD University of Queensland 2007. Intervening careers in theatre and television (in Australia and the United States) and a decade as a modern day monk, teaching meditation on behalf of his guru in a dozen countries of the Asia Pacific region.
Books
Marsh, Victor (2014). The boy in the yellow dress. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Clouds of Magellan Press.
Marsh, Victor (2010). Mr Isherwood changes trains: Christopher Isherwood and the search for the 'home self'. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Clouds of Magellan.
Book Chapters
Marsh, Victor (2020). “Enlarging their clearing in the jungle”: the political significance of Christopher Isherwood’s My Guru and His Disciple. Isherwood in transit. (pp. 202-220) edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press. doi: 10.5749/j.ctv1220r9f.19
Marsh, Victor (2015). Isherwood and the psycho-geography of home. The American Isherwood. (pp. 107-120) edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press.
Marsh, Victor (2013). Searching for the ‘home-self’: autobiography and the que(e)rying of ‘religion’. Heaven Bent: Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex experiences of faith, religion and spirituality. (pp. 76-96) edited by Luke Gahan and Tiffany Jones. Melbourne, Australian: Clouds of Magellan.
Marsh, Victor (2012). Writing the spirit: testimony and the unauthorized voice in the queer spiritual memoir. Queer religion: homosexuality in modern religious history. (pp. 251-275) edited by Donald L. Boisvert and Jay Emerson Johnson. Santa Barbara, CA, United States: Praeger.
Marsh, Victor (2011). Love matters: Editor's introduction. Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage. (pp. xxvii-xxxii) edited by Victor Marsh. Melbourne, Australia: Clouds of Magellan.
Journal Articles
Marsh, Victor (2020). Dis-locations and re-locations: Christopher Isherwood and the search for the "Home Self". Journal of Literary Studies, 36 (1), 125-136. doi: 10.1080/02564718.2020.1738720
Marsh, Victor (2018). "Testimony of the Child at Play". Infinite Rust Literary Journal
Marsh, Victor (2014). The evolution of a meme cluster: a personal account of a countercultural journeying through The Age of Aquarius. M/C Journal, 17 (6), 1-8.
Marsh, Victor (2013). A touch of silk: a (post)modern faerie tale. Griffith Review (42), 159-169.
Marsh, Victor (2011). Bent kid, straight world: Life writing and the reconfiguration of 'queer'. Text, 15 (1). doi: 10.52086/001c.31315
Marsh, Victor (2010). On ‘The problem of the religious novel’: Christopher Isherwood and A single man. Literature & Theology, 24 (4), 378-396. doi: 10.1093/litthe/frq048
Marsh, Victor (2010). Writing the spirit: Testimony and the unauthorised voice in the queer spiritual memoir. Polari Journal (2), e1-e29.
Marsh, Victor (2009). Advaita Vedanta and the Repositioning of Subjectivity in the Life-Writing of Christopher Isherwood, "Homosexualist". Theology & Sexuality, 15 (1), 97-120. doi: 10.1558/tse.v15i1.97
Marsh, Victor (2008). The disobedient subject: Advaita Vedanta and the disruption of authorized subject positionings in Christopher Isherwood’s life-writing. Postscripts, 4 (3), 259-302. doi: 10.1558/post.v4i3.259
Marsh, Victor E. (2008). Authority, disobedience and dissent: First-person testimony and the que(e)rying of religion. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 4 (3), 233-242. doi: 10.1558/post.v4i3.233
Marsh, Victor (2008). The disobedient subject: masculinity and spirituality in Christopher Isherwood's life writing. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 39 (1-2), 71-88.
Marsh, Victor (2007). Border crossings? Queer spirituality and Asian religion: a first person account. Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 3 (2), 97-108.
Marsh, V. (2007). The boy in the yellow dress: Re-framing subjectivity in narrativisations of the queer self. Life Writing, 5, 263-285.
Conference Papers
Marsh, Victor (2018). Reality shifts: The political and ontological potencies of life writing. Peripheral Visions, Perth, WA, Australia, 28–30 November 2018.
Marsh, Victor (2017). Dis-locations and Re-locations: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the 'Home self'. Representations of Home: Conflict and/or Belonging: Thinking with Stories and Images, Faculdade de Letras, Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal, 16-17 November 2017.
Marsh, Victor (2016). Life writing, identity, and the politics of spiritual praxis. Australian Homosexual Histories Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 25-26 November 2016.
Marsh, Victor (2015). Carrying coals to Newcastle? life writing and identity, beyond the anglo paradigms. Locating Lives: The Inaugural Conference for the IABA Asia-Pacific Chapter, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 1-3 December 2015.
Marsh, Victor (2015). "Enlarging their clearing in the jungle": the (modest) significance of Isherwood's "My Guru and His Disciple".. "My Self in a Transitional State". Isherwood in California., The Huntington, San Marino California., 13-14 November 2015. San Marino, CA, United States: The Huntington.
Marsh, Victor (2014). Who's telling my life?: life writing and the re-signification of culturally contested (queer) subjectivities. Religious Genderings: The Socio-Spiritual [Dis-]Empowerment of Women and Men, Orange, CA, USA, 26-28 February, 2014.
Marsh, Victor (2010). Bent kid, straight world: Life writing and the reconfiguration of 'queer'. 2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia’s Conference, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, 7-9 December 2010. Lismore, N.S.W., Australia: Southern Cross University Press.
Thesis
Marsh, Victor (2007). The Journey of the Queer 'I': Spirituality and subjectivity in life narratives by gay men.. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland.