Publications
Book
Avery, Tamlyn (2023). The regional development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474489966.001.0001
Book Chapters
Avery, Tamlyn (2024). Notes to literature: scores as musical reproduction in the literary text. The Edinburgh companion to literature and sound studies. (pp. 81-98) edited by Helen Groth and Julian Murphet. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781399502313-007
Avery, Tamlyn (2022). Classical Music. The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South. (pp. 157-161) edited by Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette and Monica Carol Miller. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003009924-41
Avery, Tamlyn (2020). Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman. E. L. Doctorow: a reconsideration. (pp. 33-52) edited by Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Avery, Tamlyn (2020). Current of music in Carson McCullers. Understanding the short fiction of Carson McCullers. (pp. 191-211) edited by Alison Bertolini and Casey Kayser. Macon, GA, United States: Mercer University Press.
Journal Articles
Avery, Tamlyn (2024). Playing amanuensis to inner urges: masculinity, authorial anxiety, and Wallace Thurman’s typewriter. Modernism/Modernity, 31 (4).
Avery, Tamlyn (2024). Passing as white collar: the black typewriter and the bureaucratization of the racial imaginary. PMLA, 139 (1), 66-81. doi: 10.1632/s0030812923001177
Avery, Tamlyn (2021). Fredric Jameson, Richard Wright, and the Black National Allegory. Affirmations: of the Modern, 7 (1).
Avery, Tamlyn (2020). 'Split by the Moonlight': Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature. American Literature, 92 (4), 623-652. doi: 10.1215/00029831-8780863
Avery, Tamlyn (2019). Gretel Adorno, the Typewriter: Sacrificial Lambs and Critical Theory's 'Risk of Formulation'. Australian Feminist Studies, 34 (101), 309-324. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1679020
Avery, Tamlyn (2019). The Métis and the Multiple "Me" in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding. Mississippi Quarterly, 72 (1), 69-93. doi: 10.1353/mss.2019.0002
Avery, Tamlyn (2017). Women’s work: the bildungsromance of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Affirmations: of the Modern, 5 (1), 1-28.
Avery, Tamlyn (2014). Alienated, Anxious, American: The Crisis of Coming of Age in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and the Late Harlem Bildungsroman. Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 20 (2), 1-17.
Conference Papers
Avery, Tamlyn (2024). Season of Rebellion: The American Bildungsroman in the Long 1950s. Coming of Age in the Long 1950's America: Literature, Culture, and Film, Lund, Sweden, 19 June 2024.
Avery, Tamlyn (2023). Jean Toomer and the racial politics of modernist difficulty. Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies: A Series of Online Events Organised by Five International Associations of Modernists, Online, July 2023.
Avery, Tamlyn (2023). Pauline Hopkins and the racial imaginary of typewriter fiction. The American Literature Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, United States, May 2023.
Avery, Tamlyn (2022). Eliot's typewriter and the bureaucratization of the social imaginary. The Waste Land at 100, Adelaide, SA, Australia, April 29-30 2022.
Avery, Tamlyn (2019). Richard Wright, Fredric Jameson, and the Black National Allegory . Fredric Jameson's Allegory and Ideology: a Symposium, UNSW Sydney, 6 December 2019.
Avery, Tamlyn (2018). After Bildung: towards a theory of the Halbbildungsroman. The Bildungsroman: form and transformations, Sydney, NSW, United States, 22-25 November 2018.
Avery, Tamlyn (2017). A Crude Awakening: Capital & the Bildungsromance of Women’s Labour in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. The Idea of Prose Style: A Symposium, UNSW and the University of Sydney, December 13–15 2017.
Avery, Tamlyn (2017). Adapting Wright's Native Son: the intersection of American literary naturalism and film noir. CAMERA STYLO: Intersections in Literature and Cinema, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 10-12 July 2017.
Avery, Tamlyn (2016). Feralized form in the Bildungsroman bloodline: Southern Dynasticism as Eternal Recurrence in O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away. ANZASA postgraduate and early career scholar conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 6-8 July 2016.
Avery, Tamlyn (2015). ‘From Another Distanced Mind': monstrous self-representation in Plath’s The Bell Jar. Reason Plus Enjoyment Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 10-13 July 2015.
Avery, Tamlyn (2014). From ‘Chemical Madness’ to ‘Goddamn Phonies’: voicing consumerist youth in Catcher in the Rye and the New York Bildungsroman. Rocky Mountains Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boise, ID, United States, 9-11 October 2014.
Avery, Tamlyn (2014). Disaffected youth: consumption and the early “Waning of Affect” in Catcher in the Rye and the American Bildungsroman. Australian Association of Literature Conference: Literature and Affect, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2-4 July 2014.
Avery, Tamlyn (2014). Slave to the dollar: capitalist alienation and urban ethnic anxiety in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and the late Harlem Bildungsroman. Fear and Loathing: 9th Annual Limina Conference, Perth, WA, Australia, 20 June 2014.
Avery, Tamlyn (2013). From Joyce to Farrell, or Irish coming-of-age in 20th century American literature. 20th Australasian Conference for Irish Studies: The Ends of Ireland , Sydney, NSW, Australia, 4-7 December 2013.
Newspaper Articles
Avery, Tamlyn (2024, 08 15). Julia Phillips’ Bear is a post-pandemic novel with a fairytale twist The Conversation
Avery, Tamlyn (2023, 03 14). Jean Toomer’s Cane at 100: the ‘everlasting song’ that defined the Harlem Renaissance The Conversation