Geoff Rodoreda

Geoff Rodoreda studierte Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften, Medienwissenschaften und Journalismus in Sydney, Australien. Er arbeitete als Journalist und Redakteur beim öffentlichen Rundfunk (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Adelaide, Sydney und Darwin, bevor er 1996 nach Deutschland zog. In Stuttgart arbeitete er als freier Journalist und Redakteur. Seit 2009 ist er als Lektor in der Abteilung Englische Literaturen angestellt. 2016 hat er seine Dissertation zum Thema postkoloniale Diskurse in der zeitgenössischen, australischen Erzählliteratur an der Universität Stuttgart abgeschlossen. Diese wurde 2018 mit zwei Preisen, einmal von der Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS) und einmal von der Gesellschaft für Australienstudien (GASt), für die beste Dissertation ausgezeichnet. Er unterrichtet sprachpraktische Kurse sowie Seminare zu den Literaturen Australiens, Afrikas, Irlands und Großbritanniens. Er ist aktives Mitglied der GAPS, der GASt und der European Association for Studies of Australia.

“Mabo, History, Sovereignty: The Contemporary Postcolonial Novel.” The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, edited by David Carter, Cambridge UP, 2023, pp. 421-36

“Climate Fiction and Disability: Enabled Futures in James Bradley’s   Clade (2015).”  Antipodes, vol. 36 no. 1, 2022, pp. 94–106.

“ Of Blood and Terror in the Queen’s Own Land: Violence and the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty.”  Postcolonial Text vol. 17 no. 2 and 3, 2022, pp. 1- 18.

“ Sovereignty in Alexis Wright’s   Carpentaria (2006).”  Motifs no. 6, 2022, para. 1-28.

"Review of Polities and Poetics: Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature, by Adelle Sefton-Rowston.” Australian Literary Studies vol. 37 no. 2, 2022, pp. 1-4.

Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia (edited with Eva Bischoff), Anthem, 2021.

(with Eva Bischoff) “Introduction.” Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia, edited by Geoff Rodoreda and Eva Bischoff, Anthem, 2021, pp. 1-13.

“Traces of Territory: Alexis Wright’s Grog War (1997).” Antipodes, vol. 33 no. 2, 2019, pp. 67-78.

(with Catherine Noske) “Rev. of Ashley Barnwell and Joseph Cummins , Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature .” Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 10 no. 2, 2019, pp. 84-87.

The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction. Peter Lang, 2018.

“Sovereignty, Mabo, and Indigenous Fiction.” Antipodes, vol. 31 no. 2, 2017, pp. 344-60.

“Walking the Land: Assertions of Sovereignty in Indigenous Narratives.” Nature and Environment of Australia, edited by Beate Neumeier, Boris Braun and Victoria Herche. KOALAS: Series of the Association for Australian Studies, vol. 14, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2018, pp. 163-75.

“Weal/th in the Land: Re-Imagining Indigenous Land Use in Australia.” Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction, edited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy, Brill Rodopi, 2018, pp. 189-206.

“Orality and Narrative Invention in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria.” Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 16 no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-13.

“Reading Mabo in Peter Goldsworthy’s Three Dog Night (2003).” The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 7 no. 2, 2016, pp. 15-29.

“The Darkest Aspect: Mabo and Liam Davison’s The White Woman.” Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal, no. 30, 2016, pp. 44-60.

“Reflections (in lieu of notes) on Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Münster.” ACOLIT 72, Sep. 2015, pp. 24-27.

“The Swinging Stirrup Iron: Murder Most Pastoral in Queensland Fiction.” The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 5 no.1, 2014, pp. 60-75.

Rev. of Imaginary Antipodes: Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture, by Russell West-Pavlov, Anglistik vol. 24 no. 2, 2013, pp. 202-03.

“Post-Mabo Literature: New Discourses in Australian Fiction.” Australia: Reality, Stereotype, Vision, edited by Henriette von Holleuffer and Adi Wimmer, Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2012, pp. 97-107.

“George Orwell in Stuttgart.” Literaturblatt Baden-Württemberg, no. 4, Juli.-Aug. 2010, pp. 14-15.

“‘That’s not Indigenous?’: Reflections on Ten Canoes.” Gesellschaft für Australienstudien Newsletter, no. 1, June 2009, pp. 7-9.