Key researchers Gr-J:

Ian Green

Head, Riawunna
University of Tasmania

(See separate page.)

Barbara Hatley

Professor and Head of School, Asian Languages and Studies

Research Interests

My main research is in colonial/post-colonial literature and theatre in Indonesia, and other Asian and ‘third world’ states. My published work with an identified post-colonial focus has been in the area of women's writing and literary representations of women in relation to colonial/post-colonial experience and understandings of the nation.

Recent Publications include:

• "Nation, ‘Tradition’ and Constructions of the Feminine in Modern Indonesian Literature." Imagining Indonesia: Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture. Ed. J. Schiller and B. Martin-Schiller. Ohio: Center for International Studies, University of Ohio, 1997.
• "A Woman Dares to Speak - Ratna Sarumpaet, Indonesia." Performing Women, Performing Feminisms. Brisbane: Australasian Drama Studies Association, 1997.
• "New Directions in Indonesian Women's Writing?: The Novel Saman." Asian Studies Review 23.4 (December 1999).
• with Susan Blackburn "Representations of Women’s Roles in Household and Society in Women's Writing of the 1930s." Women and Households in Indonesia. Ed. J. Konig, M.Nolten, J.Rodenberg and R. Saptari. Curzon Press, 2000.
• "Female Voices and Constructions of the Feminine." In Search of the Post-Colonial in Modern Indonesian Literature. Ed. Keith Foulcher and Tony Day. KITLV Press, forthcoming.

Anna Johnston

Associate Lecturer, School of English and European Languages and Literatures

Research Interests:

• Postcolonial literature and theory
• Colonial literature & history
• Missionaries and colonialism, particularly in the nineteenth century
• Interdisciplinary connections between literature, cultural studies, and history

I am co-editing a study of colonial and postcolonial travel discourses, entitled Travel, Text, Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Travel Modalities and my own paper examines the missionary deputation led by Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet to the LMS missions in Polynesia and Australia in the 1820s. In 2001 I will be undertaking a research project entitled "Colonial textuality and controversy in the writings of the Quaker missionaries James Backhouse and George Walker, Van Diemen’s Land, 1832-1838."

Recent Publications include

• "On the Importance of Bonnets: The London Missionary Society and the Politics of Dress in Nineteenth-Century Polynesia." (Un)Fabric/ating Empire, spec. issue of New Literatures Review 36 (Winter 2000): 114-27.
• "Settler Post-Colonialism." Coauthored chapter with Assoc. Prof. Alan Lawson. A Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies. Massachusetts and Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 360-76.
• "Unbecoming Post-Colonial Narratives: Eric Michaels’ Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary." Intellectuals and Other Figures. Spec. issue of Southern Review 32.1 (1999): 60-71
• "‘God being, not in the bush’: The Nundah Mission (Qld) and Colonialism." Queensland Review 4.1 (1997): 71-80.
• "The Bookeaters: Textuality, Modernity, and the London Missionary Society." [10 000 words] Special issue of Semeia (USA) entitled A Vanishing Mediator: The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism. Ed. Roland Boer and Gerald West. Forthcoming 2001.
• "Antipodean Heathens: The London Missionary Society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-1850." The Space-in-Between: Frontiers and Boundaries in Colonial Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Ed. Lynette Russell. Manchester UP. Forthcoming April 2001.