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Dr Daniel Hourigan

Dr Daniel Hourigan
Name Daniel Hourigan
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Lecturer (English Literature)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office Q231
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4687 5766
Extension 5766
Email
Qualifications BA Griffith , BA(Hons) Griffith , PhD Griffith
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/811yq/dr-daniel-hourigan
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Dr Daniel Hourigan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Humanities & Communication. His research focuses on the intersections of Australian law and culture, contemporary literatures, and psychoanalysis. He is currently writing about the use of psychoanalytic critique in Speculative Fiction criticism.


  • Cultural Theory ( 200204 )
  • Literary Theory ( 200525 )
  • Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation ( 180122 )
  • Legal Theory ( 480410 )
  • Literary Theory ( 470514 )
  • Cultural Theory ( 470207 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Literary Studies ( 470500 )
  • Law In Context ( 480400 )

Contemporary literature
Comparative literature
Speculative fiction
New Weird fiction
European philosophy
Lacanian psychoanalysis
Philosophy and literature
Law and literature
Cultural legal studies
Law and the Humanities


Australasian Association of Literature
Law and Literature Association of Australasia Inc.


Deputy Editor, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities, Edinburgh University Press
Advisory Board, Law and Visual Jurisprudence, Springer


  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

ENL2010 Fantastic Fictions
ENL3004 The Literary Canon
ENL3007 Law and Literature
ETH2000 Ethics in Everyday Life
ETH3000 Ethics and the Body
HMT4006 Advanced Theories and Debates in the Discipline
HMT4007 Becoming a Researcher


15 Years


Academic Integrity Lead, School of Humanities & Communication


  • Cultural Theory ( 200204 )
  • Literary Theory ( 200525 )
  • Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation ( 180122 )
  • Legal Theory ( 480410 )
  • Literary Theory ( 470514 )
  • Cultural Theory ( 470207 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Literary Studies ( 470500 )
  • Law In Context ( 480400 )