Key researchers A-D:

Pam Allen

Senior Lecturer in Indonesian

School of Asian Languages and Studies

Research Interests

My research interests fall mostly into the category of ‘post-colonial’ studies, although I do have an interest in colonial literature of the Indies - in particular novels written by Dutch colonials based on their experience. My particular interest in post-colonial hybridity, specifically as it is expressed through literature but also as evoked through the experiences of Eurasians in Indonesia. In this respect I am interested in the displacement and repositioning that occurs as a result of colonialism, and also the evolution of neo-colonialisms.

Current main research interest is the recent writing of Chinese-Indonesians, which has entailed a close examination of the somewhat ambivalent position of the Chinese in the Indies during the 350 years of Dutch colonial rule.

Recent Publications include:

• "Kebangsaan dan pencitraan dalam tiga roman Mangunwijaya." Menjadi Generasi Pasca Indonesia: Kegelisahan Y.B. Mangunwijaya. Ed. Sindhunata,. Yogyakarta: Kanisius, 1999. 163-203.
• "An Activist in New York." Silenced Voices: New Writing from Indonesia Manoa 12:1 (2000): 169-182. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press .
• "Nationalism, Essentialism and the Yearning for National ‘Wholeness’: Post-colonial Constructions of ‘Nation’ in Indonesia." Proceedings of the NZASIA 1999 Conference (2000).

Richard Blythe

Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head
School of Architecture

Research Interests
His PhD thesis is the history of a colonial Australian 'wild' park, the Cataract Gorge, near Launceston. It considers the influence of this landscape on the city that developed around the gorge during the nineteenth century (Launceston). This history is placed in the context of the development of a particular garden type, the English wilderness garden, and draws on examples from literature and garden history.

Recent Publications

• 'Wilderness in the Garden: the development of an English garden typology and its influence on the establishment of the Cataract Gorge Park in the Antipodes '. in Macarthur, J., Additions: papers of the 19th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Darwin Australia, The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (forthcoming 2002).
• 'Wild at Heart', Architectural Review, No. 79, Autumn, pp. 26-27. (as editor) Papers of the Wild Cities/Urbane Wilderness Symposium, Launceston, University of Tasmania (2002)
  
• 'Magic Realist Tendencies in Architecture?', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 1, (2000) pp. 92-104.
• 'The Idea of the Town'. in Green, K., In the Making: Architecture's Past: papers of the 18th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Darwin Australia, The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2001. pp. 160-165.
• 'Wild Cities/Urbane Wilderness', in Leach, A. and Petrovic, E., Formulation and Fabrication the architecture of history: papers of the 17th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2000, pp. 331-336. F 1
  
• 'The Legislation of the Town as Idea'. The Geography of Law: Landscape and Identity. (Ed. Taylor, William). The International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Oñati, Spain 2001.
  
• 'The Dressing and Re-Dressing of the Cataract Gorge Launceston', in Frascari, M. and Emmons, P., Portraying Landscape, Alexandria, USA, 2000.
  

Jan Critchett:

Adjunct Professor: Faculty of Arts, Deakin University;

Honorary Research Associate, University of Tasmania

(See separate page.)

Tom Dunning,

Senior Lecturer, School of History and Classics

 

Research Interests

• Ganged convict labour and the international aspects of convictism.
• Vandemonium Convicts, especially Americans and Canadians.
• I am also a partner on ARC grants on penal probation with Hamish Maxwell Stewart and Cassandra Pybus.

Recent Publications include

• "The Adventure of Patriot Hunters: Danger, Memory, Place and Virtue at the Windmill." Canadian Journal of American Studies 29.1 (1999): 109-121.
• "Convict Bodies in Van Diemen’s Land: The North American Experience." Australian Studies 13.1 (Summer 1998): 134-142.

More Key Researchers:
A-D/E-Go/Gr-J/K-Ma/Me-N/Ph-Po/Py-Z