Ann Vickery is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University. She is the author of Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry (2007) and Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2001), and co-author with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman of The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers (2009). With Margaret Henderson, she edited Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines (2009).