Biographical note

Paul Genoni is a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University of Technology. He has a PhD in Australian literature from the University of Western Australia and is author of Subverting the Empire: Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction (2004).Susan Sheridan is Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and English at Flinders University in Adelaide, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has published extensively in feminist studies and Australian cultural history, her books including Christina Stead (1988), Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing, 1880s to 1930s (1995) and Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years (2002).