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Kristyn Harman
PhD Candidate
School of History and Classics / Riawunna Centre for Aboriginal Eduation
University of Tasmania

Kris's research interests are contact history of New Zealand, Australia and the Cape Colony; indigenous convicts; and representations of identity.

The working title of her PhD dissertation is 'Superior Natives': Maoris in Van Diemen's Land 1830-1855.

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.

"Post-Coloniality and the Feminine in Modern Indonesian Literature" in  Clearing a Space: Post-Colonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature. Keith Foulcher and Tony Day. eds, Leiden: KITLV Press 2002.

"Women, Gender and Popular Culture in Indonesia" in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Editor Suad Joseph, Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming.

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Research Interests:

Anna's main research interests are in:

Colonialism and its aftermath, particularly in non-fictional writing
Missionary writing and empire
Colonial and postcolonial travel writing
Australian literature
Interdisciplinary connections between literature, cultural studies and history

She also has interests in postcolonial literatures and theories, and in autobiography.

Current Projects:

The "Paper War": Missionary Textuality and Early Nineteenth Century Australian Colonial Culture
This research is funded by an ARC Discovery Grant for 2003 - 2005. This project conducts archival research into texts produced by a linked netowrk of religious/missionary figures, focusing on the Lake Macquarie mission run by Lancelot Threlkeld, and analyses these through theories of colonial discourse and tectuality. Research outcomes include original, innovative contirbutions to Australian literary/cultural studies and international colonial/postcolonial studies.

Tasmanian Stories
This research, conducted in collaboration with Ralph Crane, incolces a survey of short stories with a significant Tasmanian focus, from the nineteenth century to contemporary writing. In addition to compiling an important archive of regional Australian literature, we will publish an anthology that will have appeal to students, researchers and tourists.

Flora Annie Stel and the Punjab
This project, co-authored with Ralph Crane, will appear as a chapter in Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall's forthcoming collection In the Margins of Anthropology: Writing, Travel, Empire. Steel's best known workis her novel of the Indian Mutiny, One the Face of the Waters (1894). As Jenny Sharpe puts it, "Flora Annie Steel, perhaps more than anyone else, embodies the memsahib in all of her contradictions". This chapter will focus on Steel's collection of stories for young readers, Tales from the Punjab (originally published in India under the title Wide-Awake Stories). This book, with extensive notes by Captain R.C. Temple and illustrations by Lockwood Kipling, consists of the tales she had listened to around village fires. Steel's collection of juvenile stories provides an interesting case study for the exploration of the folklore movement in relation to anthropology, and the importance of empire writing for younger audiences. it also enables us to think about the role of imperialwomen and their 9travel) writing in relation to broader debates about imperial history, biography and anthropology.

Recent Publications include:

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire (edited collection, with Helen Gilbert). New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

"British Missionary Publishing: Missionary Celebrity and Empire". Nineteenth Century Prose 32.2 (Fall 2005): 1-29.

"The 'little empire of Wybalenna': becoming Colonial in Australia". Journal of Australian Studies. 81 (July 2004): 17-31.

"Missionary Men: Forming Identities in Imperial Evangelical Britain" in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 9 (2003): 89-105.

"The Bookeaters: Textuality, Modernity, and the London Missionary Society." A Vanishing Mediator: The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism, a special issue of Semeia 88 (2001), ed. Roland Boer and Gerald West: 13-40.

"Antipodean Heathens: The London Missionary Society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-1850." Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies. Ed. Lynette Russell. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester UP: 2001. 68-81.

"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.

"Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth Century Polynesian LMS Stations" in Empire and Environment Anthology. Ed. Helen Tiffin. Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming

"Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth Century Australiasia". Travel in the 1800's. Ed: Tim Youngs. London: Anthem Press, forthcoming.

'"A Blister on the Imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia" in Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed: Alan Lester and David Lambert. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.

Research grants:

2003-2005 ARC Grant "The 'Paper War': Missionary Textuality and Early Nineteenth-Century Australian Colonial Culture"

2002 IRGS Grant "The Travelling Conscience of Empire: The LMS Deputation of Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet in Australia 1824-25"

2001 IRGS Grant "Colonial textuality and controversy in the writings of the Quaker missionaries James Backhouse and George Walker, Van Diemen's Land, 1832-1838."

Awards:

Teaching Merit Certificate (2002)
Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (2004)

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Elizabeth Leane
Lecturer
School of English, Journalism, and European Languages
University of Tasmania
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Research Interests:
Representations of Antarctica

Science and literature, particularly science popularization and science fiction

Current research includes an investigation of the role of reading, creative writing and theatre in the experiences of Australian Antarctic Expeditioners past and present.

Recent Publications:

"The Adelie Blizzard: the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition's Neglected Newspaper" in Polar Record 41.1 (Jan 2005): 11-20.

"Romancing the Pole: A Survey of Nineteenth Century Antarctic Utopias" in ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia. 23 (2004): 161-184.

"Science Faction: Mixing Genres in Brian Aldiss's White Mars" in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 34 (March 2005) forthcoming

"Antarctica as a Scientific Utopia." Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 32 (Autumn 2003): 27-35.

"Antarctica in the Australian Imagination." Polar Record 38 (Oct. 2002): 309-312. [Co-authored with Stephanie Pfennigwerthl]

"Antarctic Theatricals: The Frozen Farce of Scott's First Expedition." Theatre Notebook 27.3 (Oct 2003), 143-157.

"Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy." Ariel, Special Issue "A Postcolonial Odyssey" A Review of International English Literature 33.1 (2002): 83-104.

"Knowing Quanta: The Ambiguous Metaphors of Popular Physics." Review of English Studies 52 (Aug. 2001): 411-31.

"Popular Cosmology as Mythic Narrative: A Site for Interdisciplinary Exchange." Crossing Boundaries: Thinking Through Literature. Ed. Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. 84-97.

"'Stirring Things Up': Chaos, Complexity and the Hard-Boiled PI." Essays in Arts and Sciences 32 (Oct. 2003).

Research Grants:
2004-2006: ARC Discovery Grant: "Antarctic Imaginations: A Study of Creative Responses to the 'Continent for Science'"

2002: U. of Tasmania Internal Research Grant: "Representations Of Antarctica As A Scientific Utopia: A Pilot Project For A Book-Length Study Of Fictional Antarctic Utopias"

2001: U. of Tasmania Internal Research Grant: "Comparative Analysis of Fictional and Popular Non-fictional Representations of Antarctic Science and Scientists since 1950"

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• Colonial and post-colonial visual arts and popular imagery in the British colonies, generally;
• The development of vernacular expression in landscapes, gardens, architecture and everyday objects;
• Public and commemorative art in the landscape, in particular the form and placement of statues of 'founding fathers' and reference to colonial and pioneering myths and values in 21st century public art;
• Dialogues between post-colonial and post-imperialist natural sciences and the arts, and the beginning of conservation movements for both the natural and built heritage of Australia.

My research and writing is multi-disciplinary, based in the visual arts but drawing on disciplines such as history, philosophy, geography, architecture, design, and mass media. Before taking over the running of the Theory Program at SVPA in 2000 I had a number of 'careers', most recently as a researcher and cataloguer for a major Sydney-based private collection of 19th century Australiana (1989-2000), as co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (1999-2001) and as a lecturer in histories and theories of visual arts, architecture and design at the Universities of Sydney and UTS-Insearch. Current research projects include: aspects of post-imperialist sciences and the arts, related particularly to Russell Drysdale's Tasmanian connections in the 1950s and 60s; and the expression of regional identity, history and place in public art, based on a case study of the Great Western Tiers Sculpture Trail.

Recent Publications include:
'Trailblazing: public art and community in the Meander Valley', Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools, Hobart, October 2003 (in press)

'Still life, poetry...', catalogue essay for, The dish ran away with the spoon: exploring still life, curator Catherine Wolfhagen, Academy Gallery, Inveresk, 2003

'On the mat', catalogue essay for, Placemats...a series of fundamental floors, coordinator John Vella, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, 2003

'Mythic and monumental: revisiting Drysdale and the English moderns', Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, AAANZ and Art Gallery of New South Wales, December 2002

'Backyards', 'Drying grounds', 'Front gardens' and 'Quirky gardens', entries in Richard Aitken and Michael Looker, eds, Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002

'Playing with containment: spatial complexity in the smallest gardens', Proceedings of Gardens of the Imagination, Annual Conference of the Australian Garden History Society, Hobart, 2002

Artefact: material culture and its interpretations, catalog and curated exhibition, in association with CAIA seminar day, History from things, Academy Gallery and Academy of the Arts, Inveresk, 2002

'Bush, garden, fire and the myth of the natural', Proceedings of Wild Cities/Urbane Wilderness, School of Architecture, University of Tasmania, 2002

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Research Interests:

• Aboriginal History in Tasmania
• Van Diemen's Land Company
• Regional History of North West Tasmania

Current Project:

Italian POW's in Tasmania during the Second World War

Relevant Publications:
'Cape Grim' in Robert Manne (ed.) Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of  History. Melbourne. Black Inc Books. 2003.

'Pevay, a Casualty of War' in Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Papers and Proceedings. Hobart. vol.48. no.4.

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Research interests:

Medievalism
Postcolonial theory
Nineteenth-century Australian novels

Current projects:

Medievalism and memory work

A critial edition of The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer (London: Richard Bentley, 1859; Hobart: J Walch & Son, 1860)

Teaching:

Rereading Chaucer (Honours Unit)
HEA277/377 Legend of King Arthur
HEA213/313 Gothic and Medieval Fiction

Recent Publications:

“Medievalism and Memory Work.” Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture. Ed. Stephanie Trigg. Medieval Cultures Series, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney (Melbourne/Turnhout: University of Melbourne Press/Brepols) forthcoming

Caroline Leakey [Oliné Keese]. The Broad Arrow; Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer. Ed and introduction with Notes by Peter Pierce (Hobart: Red Hill Books) forthcoming

Entry for "Amanda Lohrey" in Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Selina Samuels. (Detroit, London: The Gale Group) forthcoming

Recent conference papers :

"The Two Towers by the River" at "Old Worlds and New Worlds" Fifth Annual Conference of ANZAMEMS, University of Auckland, 2-5 February 2005

"Getting Away from it All: Caroline Leakey's The Broad Arrow" at "Escape: An International Conference", Strahan Convention Centre, Strahan, Tasmania, 26-29 June 2003.

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• Tasmanian literary history and culture;
• Intersections of historicist literary studies and heritage policy, as they relate to Tasmanian sites and texts.

Current research focuses on the literature of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania, and its historical, social, regional and cultural contexts.

Recent Publications include:

Mead, P, 'The Strange Narrative Density of Tasmania', Island (87) 15-17 (2001)

Mead, P, 'Foreword.' Margaret Scott Collected Poems. Hobart: Montpelier, xiii-xiv 2000 [rep. 2001]

Mead, P, 'Foreword,' P. Mead, ed. Australian Literary Studies in the21st Century, University of Tasmania, Hobart, v-ix (2001)

Teaching:

HEA 214/314 Literature of Tasmania

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Research Interests:
My thesis concentrates on the post penal period in Tasmania (c.1858-1885) and appropriates as its backbone the life of Alice Gertrude Kenny. She came to the colony as a single female immigrant servant, and over subsequent decades raised her status to Matron of the New Norfolk Hospital for the Insane. She was forced to leave the colony after seeing her position crumble amidst scandal, trials, rioting, and bodily illness.Through this life I am examining the broader British Imperial project, and its propagation through immigration and domesticity in Tasmania. I look at the ascendancy (and convergence) of medical science, law and politics in the colony, and the ways in which their boundaries are both defined and troubled by gender, race and class.

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