Residential College Staff
Mr Campbell Bairstow, BA UWA, BEd Murdoch
Dean
A graduate in Arts from the University of Western Australia and a member of St George’s College at that University, Campbell also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Murdoch University. He is a former Chairman of the Western Australian Division of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, and a Fellow and Past Australasian President of the Association of Development and Alumni Professionals in Education (ADAPE). He is also a passionate member of the Geelong Football Club.
Dr Deane Blackler, MA, MEd Melb, PhD Tas
Associate Dean
Prior to taking up her role at Trinity at the beginning of 2009, Deane was Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning at Trinity Grammar School, Kew, and has a distinguished record of senior educational and pastoral roles at both tertiary and secondary levels. She taught in the undergraduate program at the University of Tasmania, from Chaucer to postmodernism, and 19thC British Literature. Head of English at two independent schools, including Melbourne Girls Grammar School where she taught over a twenty-year period, she has been a member of panels for the VCAA and AISV for many years. Her PhD is on the prose fiction of W.G. Sebald, and was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2007. She holds Master's degrees in Arts (English) and in Education, examining provisions for students of high intellectual potential. Her most recent publication is forthcoming from Rodopi, Amsterdam, in 2009, a paper given on the cinematics of Sebald’s prose at UNSW, and she is revising a paper on Sebald’s use of J.M.W. Turner given at UEA in Norwich, for publication in 2010, while undertaking further research on Sebald and some disobediently digressive work on Australian writing. She is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Sally Dalton-Brown, MA Wits, PhD Cantab
Head of Academic Programs
Sally was appointed in February 2003 to oversee the mentoring program, and took on the tutorial and visiting scholar programs in 2006. After her MA at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, she went to Cambridge on a Flanagan scholarship (with a semester at Moscow State University), completing her doctorate on contemporary Russian political literature in 1990. She lectured in the Russian departments of Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) and Exeter University (UK) in the 1990s before becoming a senior lecturer and Sub-Dean of the School of European Studies at Sussex University. She taught Russian language and 19th-century literature at Melbourne university across alternating semesters from 2003 to 2007. She has published four books and numerous articles and reviews on Russian and international literature, her last article being on American writing; her most recent research paper was on the prose of Makanin, at the 'Literature of the 20th Century and Beyond' conference in Oxford in late 2008. Currently she is researching genre fiction, nomadology, and emigre literature.
Dr Peter Campbell, BEc, BA, MMus ANU, GradDipLib&InfoMgt Canberra, PhD Melb, JP, AALIA
Registrar
While completing degrees in economics, art history and musicology, and a postgraduate qualification in information management, Peter held teaching, research and administrative positions at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, the Canberra School of Music, and the University of Melbourne, including as a lecturer in music history for Trinity College Foundation Studies. As a musicologist, he has published four books and numerous articles and encyclopedia entries on aspects of music in Australia, and his doctoral research examined aspects of choral singing in Australia's universities. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of the VCA and Music at the University of Melbourne, and was appointed to the staff of the residential College at Trinity in 2004.
Ms Kristie Nevill, BA(Hons) LaTrobe
Administrative Assistant
Ancilliary Staff
Mr Frank Henagan
Director of Sport and Porter Emeritus
Mr Paul McGrath
Caretaker and Night Porter