Visiting Fellow
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Professional Background
Kathie Barnes has a BA (Hons), M.Litt and PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra, and a Diploma of Education from the Canberra CAE (now University of Canberra).
She has taught English at the ANU and UNSW@ADFA. She has also taught secondary English in Canberra and the UK, in both public and private schools.
She is ACT representative on the executive of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL).
Research Interests
Christopher Brennan
Australian literature
Literary history including history of the book
Romanticism and Symbolism, including their persistence as literary influences into the twentieth century. Special interest in Novalis and Mallarmé.
Western esotericism (including Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, alchemy and Hermeticism) in relation to literature
Religion and literature
Consulting Interests
Australian literature
Western esotericism and literature
Publications
The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan’s Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism, Aries Series Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism, Leiden: Brill, 2006.
http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id25978.htm
Words for Their Own Sake: The Pursuit of Literature in an Economic Rationalist World, ed. Katherine Barnes and Jan Lloyd Jones (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2004)
“Christopher Brennan’s “Lilith” and the Creative Imagination” in Words for Their Own Sake: The Pursuit of Literature in an Economic Rationalist World, ed. Katherine Barnes and Jan Lloyd Jones (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2004)
“Christopher Brennan and the Religion of Symbolism” in Seeking the Centre: 2001 Australian International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference Proceedings, ed. Colette Rayment and Mark Levon Byrne (Sydney: RLA Press, 2002)
Courses Taught
2007
Creative Writing and Reading
Romanticism and Revolution
Persuasive Speaking and Writing (GE)
English 1B, several lectures for English 1A
2006
Century’s Corpse (with Paul Eggert)
Creative Writing (GE)
Modernism and After
English 1B, several lectures for English 1A