Dr Simone Drichel
MA (Freiburg) PhD (Vic)
| simone.drichel@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 7474 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1S8 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
New Zealand and postcolonial literature, postcolonial theory, deconstruction, ethics.
Teaching
ENGL 125 Nation and Narration in New Zealand Literature
ENGL 276 Individual and Community in New Zealand Literature
Possible Supervision
Topics in contemporary NZ and postcolonial writing, postcolonial theory, as well as theoretically driven topics in the areas of deconstruction, ethics and subjectivity.
Current Research
Dr Simone Drichel lectures in New Zealand literature and postcolonial literature and theory. She has supervised Honours and MA theses on Patricia Grace, Maurice Gee and Margaret Atwood, and is currently co-supervising several PhD theses with foci on Janet Frame. Simone has research interests in the area of continental philosophy and postcolonial theory, with a particular focus on questions of ethical subjectivity and deconstruction in a postcolonial context. Some of her recent work in this area appeared in 2008 in Philosophy & Social Criticism and in the “Levinas & Narrative” special issue of Modern Fiction Studies. She is the co-editor (with Jan Cronin) of Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame (Rodopi 2009), and is now working on a monograph on postcolonial theory and deconstructive ethics. Entitled “The Other Other: Postcolonialism and Ethics,” this project is funded by a Fast-Start Marsden Grant (2009–2011). Simone is a founding member of the Postcolonial Studies Research Network at Otago University. She was the principal organiser of the Postcolonial Studies Masterclass “Ethics and Hospitality” in 2007 and is responsible for the Network's 2010 event "Vulnerability: A Symposium." Simone is also currently the New Zealand representative (with Matheson Russell) for the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) and a co-editor of borderlands e-journal.
Publications
Edited Books
Cronin, Jan and Simone Drichel (eds). Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009.
Refereed Journal Articles
Drichel, Simone, "The Time of Hybridity." Philosophy & Social Criticism 34,6 (July 2008): 387–615.
Drichel, Simone, “Regarding the Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm.” Levinas and Narrative. Spec. Issue of Modern Fiction Studies 54,1 (Spring 2008): 20–49.
Drichel, Simone, “Of Political Bottom Lines and Last Ethical Frontiers: The Politics and Ethics of 'the Other.'” borderlands e-journal 6,2 (October 2007).
Drichel, Simone, “From Sameness to Difference: Reclaiming Maori Identity in Patricia Grace's Mutuwhenua.” antiTHESIS 10 (1999): 147-166.
Book Chapters
Drichel, Simone. “'Signposts to a world that is not even mentioned’: Janet Frame’s Ethical Transcendence.” Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Ed. Jan Cronin and Simone Drichel. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. 181–212.
Cronin, Jan and Simone Drichel. “Introduction.” Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Ed. Jan Cronin and Simone Drichel. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. ix–xxvii.
Drichel, Simone. “Explorations of 'Other' Identities in the Novels of Patricia Grace.” Compr(om)ising Post/colonialism(s): Challenging Narratives and Practices. Eds. Greg Ratcliffe and Gerry Turcotte. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 2001. 207–216.
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
Drichel, Simone. “No Border, No Nation? Reframing Border Politics,” presented at the Second International Derrida Today Conference, London, 19–21 July 2010.
Drichel, Simone. “The Other Other: Postcolonialism and Ethics,” presented at York Postcolonial Theory Conference: “What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say,” University of York, 3–5 July 2010.
Drichel, Simone. “Janet Frame's 'hinterland of truth': Knowledge and Memory in The Carpathians,” presented at ASCP Conference 2009: “Philosophy and the Work of Art,” Monash University, Melbourne, 29 November–1 December 2009.
Drichel, Simone. “The Other Other: Levinas and Postcolonial Critique,” presented at North American Levinas Society Conference 2009: “Philosophy and its Others,” University of Toronto, 28–30 June 2009.
Drichel, Simone. “'Don’t we all live in mirrors, for ever?' On Not Knowing the Other in Janet Frame's The Carpathians,” presented at “The New Exotic? Postcolonialism and Globalisation” Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, 24–26 June 2009.
Drichel, Simone. “Post/Human Subjectivities: Janet Frame & Emmanuel Levinas,” presented at ASCP Conference 2008: The Post/Human Condition, University of Auckland, 3–5 December 2008.
Drichel, Simone. “The Politics of Inhospitality: Postcolonial Encounters with Derrida,” presented at Derrida Today Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 10–12 July 2008.