Dr. Melinda Harvey

Biography

Melinda Harvey completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and PhD in English Literature at the University of Sydney. She has held lectureships at the University of Sydney, European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin (now Bard College, Berlin), the Australian National University, and RMIT University. Her research primarily focuses on women's writing, specifically the intersections of modernism, post-World War II New York intellectuals, and the contemporary literary scene. Melinda is an established book critic, contributing to major Australian newspapers and literary magazines. She was a finalist for the Pascall Prize for Criticism in 2020, which recognizes excellence in arts criticism in Australia. She also served as a judge for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017. In collaboration with Dr. Julieanne Lamond at the ANU, she contributes to the Stella Prize Stella Count, an initiative that quantifies gender bias in Australian book pages. Currently, her projects include an examination of the unique contributions of women to public literary criticism, focusing on figures such as Susan Sontag, Renata Adler, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Jean Stafford.

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