Bruce Harry Bennett AO FAHA (23 March 1941, Perth – 14 April 2012)^[1] was an Australian specialist in Australian literary studies. A Rhodes Scholar, his professional career was spent largely at the University of Western Australia where he was also director of the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature.^[2]

Awards and recognition

Bennett's biography of Peter Porter won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for non-fiction.^[1]

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995^[2] and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1993 for "service to education and to Australian literature".^[3] He was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001.^[4]

Selected works

• Bruce, Bennett, ed. (1981). Cross Currents: Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire.
• Bennett, Bruce (1991), Spirit in exile, Peter Porter and His Poetry, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-554970-6
• Bennett, Bruce; Strauss, Jennifer, eds. (1998). The Oxford Literary History of Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553737-6.
• Bennett, Bruce (2002), Australian Short Fiction: A History, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3301-2