Research

Bethany’s PhD in creative writing and history is using her grandmother’s against-the-odds divorce as a case study for exploring the use of gothic literature to communicate critical family histories, with a focus on women. 

Her research interests include gothic literature, critical family history, women’s history, and creative practice.

Watch her presentation on contemporary Australian gothic and its use of landscape to illustrate our discomfort of living on stolen land: https://youtu.be/Q3xPtePuJrg

Two old photo albums opened, slightly overlapping, and presented on a red carpeted background. You can see the photos show a family
Recent photo of an old farmhouse with a rusty roof and rusty water tank in the foreground
Scan of a photo in an album where you can still see the fastenings at the corners. The photo is a young woman holding an infant and posting for the camera
Front door, painted white, where a green vine is starting to take over the metal screen door
a woman and three young children on a rug outside. there's a car in the background on the other side of a fence. it's sepia toned
black and white photo of children having a picnic on the verandah of a house
inside an old farmhouse looking through the hallway to the front door. it's gloomy and partially lit by the windows in the front door.
sepia toned photo of a woman wearing a coat and pearl-like necklace. there's a handbag on her shoulder.
black and white portrait of a man in a three piece suit smoking a pipe (or at least miming the smoking)