Dr Dominique Hecq
Senior Lecturer, Writing
PhD Coordinator

Dominique Hecq attended the University of Liège, Belgium, where she completed two degrees with First Class Honours in English: a Licence (BA Hons) in Germanic Philology and an MA in Literary Translation.

With the help of a LaTrobe University Scholarship, she came to Australia to write a PhD on Exile in Australian Fiction.

Dominique has taught in a wide range of subjects in the areas of Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Psychoanalysis in Australia and overseas. It might therefore come as no surprise that her work crosses borders. Her writing explores notions of sexual, linguistic and cultural identification. It is often experimental. Her research aims at bridging the gap between creative writing and theory: it teases out links between creativity and the psychoanalytic teachings of Lacan whilst examining ethical and political questions underpinning intercultural, feminist, and postcolonial issues. Further, it develops ways of applying psychoanalysis to pedagogy.

Her published work includes one novel, three collections of stories, three books of poems and two short plays, one book on Freud written collaboratively, as well as articles on psychoanalysis, writing and translation.

Dominique was awarded the Martha Richardson Medal for poetry at the 2006 Ballarat Writer's Festival.

Dominique is the Editor of Bukker Tillibul, Swinburne's Journal of Writing and Practice-led Research.

Qualifications:

BA(Hons)( Liège), MA(Hons)(Liège), DipEd, PhD(LaT), NAATI Accredited Translator

Professional Associations:

• Member World Association for Psychoanalysis
• Founding Member Lacan Circle of Melbourne
• Executive Member Australian Association for Writing Programs
• Member International Association for Comparative Literature
• Member International Australian Studies Association
• Active Member Victorian Writers' Centre
• Member Society of Australian Writers
• Member Australian Association of Literary Translators

Selected Publications:

Books - Academic

• With Russell Grigg and Craig Smith, Femininity: Freud and the Early Psychoanalytic Controversies (The Other Press: London, New York, 1999).

Books - Creative Writing

• Couchgrass (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2006)
• Noisy Blood (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2004)
• Good Grief (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2002)
• The Book of Elsa, a novel (Papyrus Publishing: Melbourne, 2000)
• Magic and Other Stories (Woorilla Books: Melbourne, 2000)
• Mythfits: Four Uneasy Pieces (Penfolk: Melbourne, 1999).
• The Gaze of Silence (SideWaLK Collective: Adelaide, 1999)

Shorter Publications: Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

• "Leaving Home", in Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, Vol 5, No 10, pp.22.
• "Follysophy", in Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 1-2 (2006), 311-312, reprinted in Ashton, Bartlett and Clemens, The Praxis of Alain Badiou (re.press, Melbourne, 2006), pp. 388-89
• "Labyrinth", in Best Australian Poetry 2006 (UQP, St Lucia, 2006), pp. 26-27. Selected.
• "The Lining of the Land", in Where Art Thou, Brother (Poetica Christi, Mont Albert, 2006), pp. 21-23. Selected.
• "The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis", in Reading Lacan's Seminar XVII ( Duke University Press, New York, 2006), pp. 247-258.
• "Uncanny Encounters: On Writing, Anxiety and jouissance", Double Dialogues, Vol. 6: Anatomy and poetics, http://www.doubledialogues.com/issue_six/hecq.html
• "The Other Side of Psychoanalysis: of Impossible Power", Journal of Lacanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Nov. 2005), 34-46.
• "Of Litter and Letters", TEXT, Griffiths University Brisbane, Vol 9 No 2 October 2005 http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/oct05/hecq.htm
• "Autofrictions: the Fictopoet, the Critic and the Teacher", Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2005), 179-88.
• "Margins: The poetic text and its theoretical gesturing", TEXT, Vol 9 No 1 April 2005 http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/april05/hecq.htm
• "Hystericising the Voice of Others: A Change of Skies ", Meridian (May 2004), 26-33.
• "This Ineffable State of Refuse : in Defense of Literature", Belgian Essays in Literature (2002), 23-37.
• "Foreclosure", in H. Glowinski, Z. Marks and S. Murphy Eds. A Compendium of Lacanian Terms (Free Association Books, London & NY, 2001), pp. 71-75.
• "Apocalyptic Transpositions", SideWaLK Nos 7/8 (March 2001), 144.
• "Flying up for Air: Australian Artists in Exile", Commonwealth (Spring 2000), 35-45.
• "The Geopsychic Imagination: Exilic Patterns in Australian Literature", Belgian essays in Language and Literature (1998), 75-83.
• "Inventive Writing: an anti-method", in Truth: Writing Courses and the Imagination (Grendon Press: Melbourne, 1998), pp. 68-73.
• "The Doll : This Classic Australian Play", Commonwealth, (Spring 1997), 79-87.
• "Tales of Purloined Letters and Edited Destinies", in Crossing Cultures: Festschrift in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek, M. Delrez & B. Ledent, eds., L3, 1997, 11-27.
• "Myth-taken Paths and Exits in Peter Carey's Bliss", Commonwealth, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring 1996), 99-103.
• "The Inescapable Plain of Trespass: On Translating The Plains", Southerly, (Spring 1995), 63-73.
• "Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World : Mudrooroo's Ideological Claim in the Land of History", Belgian Essays on Language and Literature (1994), pp. 46-54.
• "Louise Forthun: The Elusive Physicality of Spaces", Tolarno Galleries, March 1994.

Units Convened:

Current units:

• LO91 (PhD)