Dr Jennifer Livett is an Honorary Research Associate with the School of English and European Languages and Literatures at the University of Tasmania. She was a lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania part-time for nine years and then full-time for nine years until the end of 1996. Her major teaching areas were the Romantics, the nineteenth-century novel, modernism, the Australian novel, and literary theory.

A reading-junkie and narratoholic, among other obsessions she is a Patrick O'Brian fan, loves Russell Hoban's work and has just discovered Rose Tremain. She wishes Mike Leigh would make a film of Pynchon's Mason and Dixon and believes it would sweep the Oscars.

Her publications include:

• "An Object All Sublime: Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy." siglo 13: Opera, Winter 2000, 54-58.
• "The Same Sky: an Irene Briant installation." Artlink Vol. 20 no 2 July 2000, 93.
• "Nobody's Perfect". (Review-article on Kate Grenville's The Idea of Perfection.) Island 82, Autumn 2000, 29-32.
• "Live Space." Review of Ian Bonde's installation 'cul-de-sac', in siglo 12, summer 2000, 31-35.
• "When Less is More: Nayantara Saghal's The Day in Shadow," Ch 4 in Nayantara Saghal, ed Ralph Crane, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1998.
• Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J.G. Farrell, (with Dr Ralph Crane), Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997.
• "Two Answers to Every Question: Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction, Ethics, and Criticism." Australian Literary Studies Vol 17 No 1 (1995).
• "Jenny Turner's INCAT Commissions," craftarts international No 34, 1995.
• "Minds of Winter: Arctic Landscapes in E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow," siglo 4, 1995.
  

Links:

• An interview with Russell Hoban
• An interview with Mike Leigh
• Patrick O'Brian web resources

Jennifer Livett can be contacted through the School of English and European Languages and Literatures at the University of Tasmania.