Colonialism and its aftermath

Key researchers Me-N:

Dr Jenna Mead

Senior Lecturer, School of English and European Languages and Literatures

Research Interests

I research in two areas under the rubric ‘Colonial Studies.’ One is in nineteenth-century fiction and specifically the writing of Caroline Leakey’s novel The Broad Arrow: Being Passages in the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer, published under the pseudonym ‘Oliné Keese.. I am engaged in editing the novel and the restored 1859 version will be published with the aid of a Federation Grant. I have also recently completed the entry for Leakey in the Dictionary of Literary Biography due for release in 2001. I am working on a collaborative project with John Frow, Christine Alarvi and Philip Mead, on cultural memory and Port Arthur.

My second area of interest is in postcolonial theory since it enables me to theorise the cultural power and value of English Studies, medievalism and empire. My current research in this area focusses on medievalism in Australia and Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Recent Publications include

"Caroline Leakey, Oliné Keese and Bio/discourse." Australian Feminist Studies 20 (Summer 1994): 53-76.

"Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship." a/b Auto/Biography Studies (US) Special Issue: Feminist Biography 8.2 (Fall 1993): 198-216.

"(Re)producing Caroline Leakey’s The Broad Arrow." Meridian 10.1 (1991): 81-88.

"Reading by Said’s Lantern: Orientalism and Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe." Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Dialogues and Culture (US) 5.3 (2000): 350-57.

"‘ ... anti-imperialist approaches to Chaucer (are there those?)’: An Essay in Identifying Strategies." Southern Review 27.4 (Dec 1994): 403-417.

"Where is the West." Meanjin 52.4 (Summer 1993): 728-40.

Philip Mead

Senior Lecturer, School of English & European Languages & Literatures

Research Interests

Australian literary and cultural studies (including the literature of Tasmania)

contemporary poetry and poetics

intersections of historicist literary studies and heritage policy, as they relate to Tasmanian sites and texts.

Current research focusses on the literature of Van Diemen’s Land and Tasmania, and its historical, social, regional and cultural contexts

Recent Publications include

I am the webpage manager for a previously Large ARC funded project, Tasmanian Culture to 1920, which is represented on the Tasarchivesites website http://tasarchivesites.english.utas.edu.au

Anne Neale

School of Architecture

Research Interests

The history and theory of architecture and gardens in Australia and comparable countries. Current projects include

Design history of Launceston’s major public parks.

Symposium [2001] and exhibition [2003] with QVMAG on the theme ‘Wild Cities/Urbane Wilderness’

‘Shaping Community: An Architectural History of Tasmania’

Recent Publications include

"A J Macdonald: Enigma and Romance in the Public Service." Fabrications [Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians: Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)] 10 (August 1999).

with Robert Sands St Kilda Bowling Club Conservation Analysis. Melbourne: Parks Victoria, 1999.

"Decorative Art and Architecture: Owen Jones and Bateman in Australia." FIRM(ness) commodity DE-light?: Questioning the Canons. Melbourne: SAHANZ, 1998.

with George Tibbits and Gwen Pascoe University of Melbourne System Garden Conservation Analysis. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 1998.

"Rippon Lea: The First Garden." Australian Garden History 9.5 (March /April 1998).

"Edward La Trobe Bateman (1816-1897)." Australian Garden History 9.4 (January/February 1998).

"Bateman’s Book Covers." University of Melbourne Library Journal 3.1 (June 1997).

"Ornamental Gardening and Architecture." On What Grounds? Adelaide: SAHANZ, 1997.

Also entries for the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (in press), including: the Picturesque; E L Bateman; L A Meredith; City Park, Launceston; Prince’s Square, Launceston; and the Cataract Gorge & Cliff Grounds.