Strauss, Jennifer (Wallace)

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STRAUSS, Jennifer (Wallace)

STRAUSS, Jennifer (Wallace). Australian, b. 1933. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: University of Melbourne, Lecturer, 1961- 63; Monash University, Melbourne, Sr. Lecturer 1971-91, Associate Professor, 1991-. Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974, and Australian National University, Canberra, 1988; University of Toronto, Ont., Centre for Medieval Studies, Visiting Professor, 1982. Ministry for the Arts, Vic., Member of Literature Committee, 1983-85; Premier's Literary Awards Committee, Chair, 1989-91. Publications: Children and Other Strangers, 1975; (ed. with B. Moore and J. Noble) Middle English Verse: An Anthology, 1976, rev. ed. (with C.A. Stevenson), 1985; Winter Driving, 1981; Labour Ward, 1988; Stop Laughing! I'm Being Serious: Three Studies in Wit and Seriousness in Contemporary Australian Poetry, 1990; Boundary Conditions: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood, 1992, 2nd ed., 1996; (ed.) The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poetry, 1993; Judith Wright, Australian Writers Series, 1995; Tierra del Fuego: New and Selected Poems, 1997; (ed. with B. Bennett) The Oxford Literary History of Australia, 1998; (ed.) Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family, 1998. Address: 2/12 Tollington Ave, E. Malvern, VIC 3145, Australia. Online address: [email protected]

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