Mandy Treagus

Mandy Treagus is of Welsh, Scottish and Cornish descent, and lives on the unceded lands of the Peramangk peoples. She is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, where she teaches and researches literature, culture, and visual studies. Her publications include Empire Girls: The Colonial Heroine Comes of Age, and the co-edited collections Changing the Victorian Subject and Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter.

All essays by Mandy Treagus

Provocations Essay: Mandy Treaguson Banaba

The Flight of the Frigate Bird

The story of abuse and exploitation by a British firm of a small group of people from a little-known Pacific island may seem like an unremarkable one in the history of the colonial project, but it exemplifies in microcosm the fast-approaching condition of the whole world.