Dr Joy Wallace
Sub-Dean Learning & Teaching and Acting Associate Head of School
Joy Wallace
Bio
Joy is the Sub-Dean Learning and Teaching of the Faculty of Arts. She is also Acting Associate Head of the School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies.
Joy did her BA at the University of Melbourne and her doctorate at Oxford University. She has held a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of New South Wales and a Lectureship at the University of Sydney. She has been at Charles Sturt University since 1994.
Joy has taught widely across programs in the Arts Faculty and was for several years Chair of the School Learning and Teaching Committee. She has experience on many committees at School, Faculty and University level. She is a member of the Steering Committee that set up the Associate Deans' Learning and Teaching Network (ADLTN) at the 2009 Conference of the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH).
As Sub Dean Learning and Teaching, Joy is partiularly committed to representing the interests of the teaching staff at Charles Sturt University, to curriculum development, and to the implementation of the university's Indigenous Education Strategy.
Joy's research interests range from medieval literature through nineteenth-century medievalism, Australian literature and psychoanalytic theories. She has published a short monograph on the nineteenh-century poet Alfred Tennyson and articles on medieval romance. She is the author of the entries on Lacan and Kristeva in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Semiotics. She has actively promoted the work of Hazel Smith, an important poet, sound-text and multimedia artist working in Australia and the UK. Her current project in Australian literature (with John O'Carroll) is on the politically engaged literature of the 1940s.
