Kate Darian-Smith Associate Professor, Director Australian Centre University of Melbourne

Current ARC Projects

1999 Show time: Social and cultural histories of agricultural shows in Australia

2001, Dr SJ Wills, with Ass Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Knowing their place? A social and cultural history of British migration in late-twentieth-century Australia

Other Externally funded Research Projects

2003/2004 Australian Studies in Indonesia project: funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, DFAT.

2002 Writing Cross-Cultural Australia: collaborative project with Prof Yasue Arimitsu, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, funded by University of Melbourne

Books

Darian-Smith, K and Wills, S, Agricultural Shows in Australia: A Survey, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne (1999) Darian-Smith, K, Gunner L., and Nuttal S. (eds.), Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia, Routledge, London and New York, viii + 280 pp. bibliography, index (1996), includes co-written 'Introduction', pp. 1-20, and sole authored chapter, ''Rescuing' Barbara Thompson and Other White Women: Captivity Narratives on Australian Frontiers', pp. 99-114

Darian-Smith, K and Hamilton, P. (eds.), Memory and History in Twentieth Century Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, viii + 255 pp + illustrations, bibliography, index (1994); includes co-written 'Introduction', pp. 1-6, and sole authored chapter 'War Stories: Remembering the Australian Home Front during the Second World War', pp. 137-57

Darian-Smith, K, Sschaffer, K. and Poignant, R., Captured Lives: Australian Captivity Narratives, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies Monograph, University of London, London, 58 pp. (1993) - includes sole authored chapter, 'The White Woman of Gippsland: A Frontier Myth', pp. 14-34.

Darian-Smith, K, On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945, Oxford University Press, Melbourne: vii + 288 pp + 40 pp illustrations, bibliography, index (1990) – shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, and sections reprinted in various publications

Edited Books

Kate Darian-Smith (ed), Challenging Histories: Reflections on Australian History, Melbourne, 2002 (special issue of Australian Historical Studies)

Chapters in Books Darian-Smith, K, Entry on 'Homefront Historiography' The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Vol 1V, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics, ed. J Beaumont, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001, pp. 311-12

Darian-Smith, K, Entries on 'Showgrounds' and 'Agricultural Societies' for Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, ed by R Aitken, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002

Darian-Smith, K, 'Material culture and the "signs" of captive white women', in Barbara Creed andJeanette Hoorn eds, Body Trade: Captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge in association with Pluto Press, New York, Annandale, 2001, pp. 180-191.

Darian-Smith, K, Entries on 'Postcolonialism', and 'Captivity Narratives', for Oxford Companion to Australian History, eds. G. Davison, J. Hirst and S. Macintyre, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998 , pp. 110-111, 519-520 (revised and updated for 2001/2002 edition)

Refereed Articles

(in press) Darian-Smith, K and Wills, S, 'New Forms of Britishness in Suburban Australia: Beefeaters, Bobbies and a New Varangian Guard?' History of Intellectual Culture, (June 2004)

Darian-Smith, K, and Wills, S, 'Beauty Contest for British Bulldongs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne', Cultural Studies Review, Vol 9, No2, Nov 2003, pp. 65-83

Darian-Smith, K, 'Introduction', special 'Challenging Histories' issue, Australian Historical Studies, vol 118, April 2002, pp. 1-6

Darian-Smith, K, ' Up the Country: Histories and Rural Communities', special 'Challenging Histories' issue, Australian Historical Studies, vol 118, April 2002, pp. 90-99

Darian-Smith, K, and Wills, S, 'From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl: Embodying Rurality in Twentieth Century Australia', Journal of Australian Studies, Vol 71, 2001, pp. 17-32

Darian-Smith, K, 'Imagining' Australia Through Public Spectacles of Nation: From Federation to Sydney 2000', The Otemon Journal of Australian Studies (Japan), vol 27, 2002, pp. 79-97

Darian-Smith, K, Marking Capture: White Women Captives in Australia', in J Damousi and K Ellinghaus, (eds) Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives: Papers Presented at the 1998 International Federation for Research in Women's History Conference, History Department, University of Melbourne. Pp. 71-78 (1999)

Darian-Smith, K, 'War and Australian Society', in Australia's War 1939-1945, ed. J. Beaumont, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. 45-68 + 173-6 (1996)

Darian-Smith, K, 'Remembrance, Romance and Nation: Women's Memories of Wartime Australia', Gender and Memory, International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories Volume 4, special eds. Leydesdorff, S., Passerini, L. and Thompson, P., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, pp. 153-64 (1996)

Darian-Smith, K, 'Remembering Romance: Memory, Gender and the Second World War', Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century, eds. J. Damousi and M. Lake, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 117-32 (1995)

Darian-Smith, K, 'Sexualizing Public Spaces: Wartime Visions of the City', Australian Studies: Journal of the British Australian Studies Association (UK), no. 9, November, pp. 19-34 (1995)

Major Government Reports

Darian-Smith, K and Lindsey, K, Report on Audit of Australian Studies in the Indonesian Tertiary Sector, for Australian-Indonesian Institute, DFAT, October 2004

My impact and contributions to the fields of Australian history and Australian Studies are numerous. My publications have been reviewed critically and positively in national and international journals, and work has been anthologised and short listed for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. I have been an advisor to exhibition and collection development for several cultural institutions, including the State Library of Victoria and Museum Victoria, and am a Research Associate and Advisory Board with the Australian Society and Technology Program at Museum Victoria. I have been an invited keynote speaker at several international and national conferences, and have attracted internal and external funding for research projects.

I am the President of the International Australian Studies Association and prior to that I was the Secretary for some years. I have been involved with numerous Australian Studies projects in Europe and Asia working with government and bilateral organizations, including the Australia-Japan Foundation, the Australia China Council and the IndonesiaAustralia Institute, and have received grants from such bodies. I recently edited a special issue of Australian Historical Studies entitled 'Challenging Histories' and have been on the editorial board of a number of academic journals including Australian Studies (UK), Journal of Australian Studies, Public History Review, am the Australiasia representaive for the Memory and Narrative book series (Transaction Press), and am Chair of the Meanjin Board of Management.

I currently supervise around 15 PhDs (11 as primary supervisor), and 5 MA students.

I am involved in an ARC – SPIRT grant with an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Sara Wills.

I am also involved in mentoring several other postdoctoral fellows – three (Drs Peta Stephenson, Jennifer Jones and Helen MacDonald) on Australian Centre Postdoctoral Fellowships, and one, Dr Caroline Jordan on an ARC postdoctoral fellowship.

I teach in Australian Studies and Australian History subjects in the Australian Centre, the Department of History and within the Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies programs at the Unievrsity of Melbourne. Areas of teachiung museology, cross-cultural studies, public history and survey courses on Australian history and society.