Richard Nile Professor and Director Australia Research Institute Curtin University of Technology

Richard Nile is Professor of Australian Studies and Director of the Australia Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology. He has widely recognised credentials and a proven track record of significant research in the field of Australian cultural history. Nile has been successful in attracting competitive grants and consultancies and has been significantly involved in large-scale research collaborations, productions and project management. His most recent books are The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination (UQP 2002, short-listed for the 2003 Western Australian Premier's Award) and, as general editor, the six volume cultural history, Australia: the Common Culture (forthcoming 2004). Nile has published several other books (with a range of national and international publishers: UQP, OUP, Andromeda Oxford, UWAP, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Wayland, University of London, Penguin) and around fifty scholarly articles/chapters. The CI and senior-author of Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific project (published by Andromeda Oxford), Nile has been centrally involved in several other large-scale research projects on Australian Culture (variously published by OUP, Penguin and UQP), in addition to The Encyclopaedia of Censorship (OUP), Nations of the Twentieth Century (Andromeda Oxford), and the Oxford Companion to the Second World War (OUP). Nile is highly regarded for his innovative work on Australia's literary culture. His major contribution to Western Australian cultural history is his co-authored and edited volume The Gate of Dreams (Fremantle Arts Centre Press), with Ffion Murphy

Books

Australia: the Common Culture, general editor, 6-book series, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, in press/production (publication July 2004).*

The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 2002 (Short-listed for the 2003 Western Australian Premier's Award).*

Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Andromeda Press, Oxford, 1997-2003 [with Christian Clerk]. In several international reprints and translations, including, German, French, Spanish, Japanese.*

The Australian Legend and its Discontents, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001.*

Becoming Australia, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1998 ed [with Michael Peterson].*

Paul Hasluck in Australian History, ed. with Tom Stannage and Kay Saunders, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1998.*

Editor of 20 volumes of the Journal of Australian Studies (UQP) over the past five years.

Series Editor of 10 scholarly titles in the book series, UQP Australian Studies (UQP) over the past five years.

Chapters

'Postgraduate Training in History' in Simon Marginson (ed), Investing in Social Capital: Postgraduate Training in the Social Sciences, forthcoming, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2002

'The Paternoster Row Machine and the Australian Book Trade 1890-1945'; and 'The Mystery of the Missing Bestseller', with David Walker, in Martyn Lyons and John Arnold (ed.), The History of the Book in Australia: A national culture in a colonial context, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, pp. 3-18 and 235-254.*

'Introduction'; 'Civilisation'; 'Tell them that Henry Lawson is Dead'; 'War of Words'; 'Images of Industrialism', in Richard Nile (ed.), The Australian Legend and its Discontents, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 2001, pp.1-10, 42-58, 95-104, 183-199, 286-296.*

'Kathy Come Home' in Bronwen Levy and Ffion Murphy (ed), Story/telling, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, pp 223-232.*

'The Australian Legend and its Discontents' in Becoming Australia, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1998, pp 155-172.*

'Here's Luck', in Tom Stannage, Kay Saunders and Richard Nile (eds), Paul Hasluck in Australian History, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1998, pp.13-27.*

'The Young and the Vulnerable' in Richard Nile (ed), War and Other Catastrophes, JAS 60, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1999, pp 1-8

'Pulp Fiction' in Richard Nile and Raymond Evans, Everyday Wonders, JAS 58, University of Queensland Press, 1998, pp 66-75.*

'The Fatal Sure', in James Jupp and Richard Nile (ed), The Fatal Shore, JAS 53, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1997, pp 1-8

Ten career-best publications

Books

Australia: The Common Culture, general editor, 6-book series, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, in press/production (2004)*

The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 2002. (Short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Award for 2003)*

Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Andromeda, Oxford, 1997. With several translations (German, French, Spanish, Japanese) and international English reprints and editions.*

Australian Civilisation, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994. (Translated into Chinese, Beijing Foreign Studies University 1999), ed.*

Paul Hasluck in Australian History, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1998. ed [with Tom Stannage and Kay Saunders].*

Indigenous Rights in the Pacific and North America, University of London, 1992 ed [with Henry Reynolds].*

The Gate of Dreams: the Western Mail 1897-1955: Stories, Poems, Illustrations, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 1992 [with Ffion Murphy].*

Chapters

'The Paternoster Row Machine and the Australian Book Trade 1890-1945' and 'The Mystery of the Missing Bestseller', in Martyn Lyons and John Arnold (eds.), The History of the Book in Australia: A national culture in a colonial context, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, pp. 3-18 and 235-254.*

'Introduction'; 'Civilisation'; 'Tell them that Henry Lawson is Dead'; 'War of Words'; 'Images of Industrialism', in Richard Nile (ed.), The Australian Legend and its Discontents, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 2001, pp.1-10, 42-58, 95-104, 183-199, 286-296.*

'Introduction', JM Harcourt, Upsurge. Perth: UWAP, 1986, vii-xxix.*

Nile has edited and contributed to more than 25 book length volumes of the Journal of Australia since 1996, co-edited with David Walker Australian Cultural History (1998-2002), and is editor of the book series UQP Australian Studies and of Symposia. He is the co-founder of the API Network and its various publications including, New Talents 21C, Creative Arts Review, JAS Review of Books, and Journals Australia. In 2002/3, he founded the Australian Scholarly Classics imprint initiative utilising print on demand technology. The founding director of the Woodford Institute, he became co-chair of the Perth International Writers Festival in 2002. Richard Nile is the inaugural chair of the Western Australian Writers Centre, incorporating the Fellowship of Australian Writers, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre and the Peter Cowan Writers Centre. He has held academic appointments at the University of New South Wales (1983-1987), University of Western Australia (1988-1989), University of London (1989-1992), University of Queensland (1993-2000) and Curtin University of Technology (2000-) where he was appointed Professor and Director of Australian Studies in 2000.