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 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. Dr Drichel 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 most 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 embarking on a book-length study of the intersection of postcolonial theory and continental 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 and was the principal organiser of the Network’s 2007 Postcolonial Studies Masterclass “Ethics and Hospitality.” She 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. Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. (2009) 
Refereed Journal Articles
"The Time of Hybridity." Philosophy & Social Criticism 34,6 (July 2008): 587–615.
“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 (2008): 20–49.
“Of Political Bottom Lines and Last Ethical Frontiers: The Politics and Ethics of 'the Other.'” Borderlands 6,2 (October 2007).
“From Sameness to Difference: Reclaiming Maori Identity in Patricia Grace's Mutuwhenua.” antiTHESIS 10 (1999): 147-166.
Book Chapters
2009 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. 181–212.
2009 Cronin, Jan and Simone Drichel. “Introduction.” Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Ed. Jan Cronin and Simone Drichel. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. ix–xxvii.
2001 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 Review Articles
“How Newness (Not) Comes into the World.” Rev. of The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature, by Eva Rask Knudsen. Australian Literary Studies 22,4 (October 2006): 507–512.
“Rebuilding the Wharenui.” Rev. of Whanau II, by Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand Books 14,4 (October 2004): 6–7.
“Quo Vadis, Alan?” Rev. of Szabad, by Alan Duff. New Zealand Books 12,1 (March 2002): 3–4.
“Tough Grace.” Rev. of Dogside Story, byPatricia Grace. New Zealand Books 11,4 (October 2001): 4–5.
“Antipodean Postcoloniality, Mosaic-style.” Rev. of Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space, by Radhika Mohanram. Kotare 3,1 (May 2000): 97–104.
Selected Conference Presentations
Drichel, Simone. “The Nation in Question: National Border Insecurity and Un/Conditional Hospitality,” presented at National Literatures Conference: Flogging a Dead Horse: Are National Literatures Finished?, Victoria University of Wellington, 11–12 December 2008 (Plenary Speaker)
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
“Of Alterity and Other Others: Alan Duff and Jacques Derrida,” presented at the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) Conference 2006: New Zealand, France, and the Pacific, Université Paris-Dauphine, France, 29 June–1 July 2006
“'Don't Mess with Mister In-Between': On the Ambivalence of Being Between,” presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) Conference 2006: BetweenThree: Arts—Media—Politics, University of Freiburg, Germany, 5–10 June 2006
“(Un)Saying the Said: The Ethics and Politics of Biculturalism,” presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference 2005: Politics of Being, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 15–17 June 2005
“Of Native Informants, Mimic Men and Neurotic Natives: Alan Duff and the Ambivalence of Ambivalence,” presented at the 9th South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies (SPACLALS) Conference: Culture, Crisis and Change in Oceania, National University of Samoa, Apia, 23–26 November 2004
“Of 'Political Bottom Lines' and 'Last Ethical Frontiers': Negotiating Otherness in Aotearoa/New Zealand,” presented at Dialogues Across Cultures: Identity, Place, Culture, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, 12–14 November 2004