Clea Butcher

Thesis title: Tragic Modernity in the Australian literary imagination

Qualifications

BA, English Language and Literature, University of Oxford

MA, English Literature, University of Sydney

Current research interests

My current research explores the relationship between the tragic mode and modernist narrative techniques in the early to mid-twentieth century Australian novel.

Papers delivered

"The Tubercular Body in Dymphna Cusack's 'Say No to Death' (1951)", Marginalised Voices in Modernism, Aestheticism, and Decadence Conference, 2026. 

"Tuberculosis and Tragic Modernity in Australian literature", International Conference on Medical Humanities, 2026