Paul Giles is Professor of English in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He works mainly on American and other Anglophone literature and culture within an international context. His most recent book is The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Experience
2022–present
Professor of English, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
2010–2022
Challis Professor of English, University of Sydney
2002–2009
Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford
1999–2002
University Lecturer in American Literature, University of Cambridge
Education
1985
University of Oxford, D Phil.
1979
University of Oxford, B.A. English, First Class
Publications
2021
The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions, Oxford University Press
2019
Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture, Oxford University Press
2013
Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature, Oxford University Press
2011
The Global Remapping of American Literature, Princeton University Press
2010
Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion, Edinburgh University Press
2006
Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature, Oxford University Press
2002
Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary, Duke University Press
2001
Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860, University of Pennsylvania Press
1992
American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press
1986
Hart Crane: The Contexts of The Bridge, Cambridge University Press
Grants and Contracts
2015
Chronometrics: Cultural Representations of Antipodean Time
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2011
Antipodean America: Australasia, Colonialism and the Constitution of U.S. Literature
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
Professional Memberships
American Studies Association
Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association
British Association of American Studies
International Association of University Professors of English
Modern Language Association of America
Research Areas
Literary Studies (2005)
Honours
Director, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2003-2008; President, International American Studies Association, 2005-2007; President, International Association of University Professors of English, 2019-23; Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities.