Contemporary Fiction; Literature and the Visual, Literature and Cinema
Publications
Simmons, R. (2023). Delivering posthumous messages: Katherine Mansfield and letters in the literary biopic Leave all fair (John Reid, 1985). In T. Higgins & C. Fowler (Eds.), Epistolary entanglements in film, media and the visual arts. (pp. 157-171). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. doi: 10.5117/9789463729666_ch08
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2019). 'I want to go to collage': On Ali Smith and John Berger. In E. Jelínková & R. Sumner (Eds.), The literary art of Ali Smith: All we are is eyes. (pp. 147-162). Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/b16712
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2017, September). I want to go to Collage: On John Berger and Ali Smith. Verbal presentation at the John Berger Now Conference, Canterbury, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2017, September). Roundtable: On John Berger's fiction. Panel discussion at the John Berger Now Conference, Canterbury, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2016). Propaganda by deed: Provocation, primitivism, and politics in John Berger's writing. In Y. Gunaratnam & A. Chandan (Eds.), A jar of wild flowers: Essays in celebration of John Berger. (pp. 307-319). London, UK: Zed Books.
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2015, June). What in the world was postmodernism? Or Marxist modernism? Verbal presentation at the What [in the World] Was Postmodernism? Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2014, September). Ways of seeing, gazing and looking. Verbal presentation at the Thinking with John Berger Conference, Cardiff, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2013). Suburban metropolis: The city in Peter Wells' cinema. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 7(1), 77-86. doi: 10.1386/sac.7.1.77_1
Journal - Research Article
Simmons, R. (2012, September). Berger's reconfigured gaze. Keynote presentation at the Ways of Seeing John Berger Conference, held by the British Library and King's College, held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Ways of Seeing and G. London, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2010, March). The city in New Zealand film. Verbal presentation at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) @ 50 Conference: Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past, Los Angeles, California.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2009). The suburb in Jane Campion's films. In H. Radner, A. Fox & I. Bessière (Eds.), Jane Campion: Cinema, nation, identity. (pp. 175-186). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2009, November). Haunted urban spaces in New Zealand cinema. Verbal presentation at the Interdisciplinary Themes Conference: The City: Culture, Society, Technology, Vancouver, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2008). [Review of the book Jane Campion]. Metro, 156, 187-188.
Journal - Research Other
Simmons, R. (2007). The Piano. In G. Mayer & K. Beattie (Eds.), The cinema of Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 149-155). London: Wallflower Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2006). John Berger. In D. S. Kastan (Ed.), The Oxford encyclopedia of British literature: Volume 1. (pp. 178-180). Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2005). The postmodern Piano. In C. Gibson & L. Marr (Eds.), New windows on a woman's world. (pp. 402-417). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of English, University of Otago.
Chapter in Book - Research
Simmons, R. (2004). Michael Ondaatje's, In the Skin of a Lion as a Cubist novel. [Reprinted from Simmons, R. (1998). Michael Ondaatje's, In the Skin of a Lion as a Cubist novel. University of Toronto Quarterly, 67.3: 699-714]. Contemporary Literary Criticism, 180, 235-243.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Simmons, R. (2004, July). The suburb in New Zealand film. Verbal presentation at the Eleventh annual day conference of the New Zealand Studies Association: Imagining New Zealand/Aotearoa: Histories and representations, London.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R., & McGuire, M. (2004, November). Virtual spaces in Don DeLillo's 'White noise'. Verbal presentation at the 3rd Annual Symposium of the Cultural Transformations Research Group: Transl(oc)ations, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Simmons, R. (2003). Border crossings: Representations of North American culture in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61. Cineaction, 61, 58-61.
Journal - Research Article
Simmons, R. (1998). In the Skin of a Lion as a Cubist Novel. University of Toronto Quarterly, 67(3), 699-714.
Journal - Research Article
Simmons, R. (1996). Driving Force: Narrative in Lee Tamahoris Television Advertisements and Once Were Warriors. Media International Australia, 80(May), 27-31.
Journal - Research Article
Simmons, R. (1996). [Review of the books Postmodern theory: Critical interrogations and Beyond Aesthetics: Confrontations with poststructuralism and postmodernism]. AUMLA, 85(May), 113-114. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
