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Postdoctoral Fellow Australia Research Institute Curtin University of Technology
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Research Projects
1998 ARC small grant, $7,000, for research contributing to The Reform of Time.
1997 ARC small grant, c. $7,000, for research contributing to Australian Almanacs 1806-1930.
1996 Fellowship awarded at the Centre for the Book, British Library, London, for research contributing to 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in Lyndal Roper & Daniel Pick, History and Dreams, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming in 2003.
1995 Publication grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities with the purpose of providing illustrations for Visions of the Future.
Publications
Monographs
The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity (Pluto Press, London, 2001).
Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time, and Cultural Change 1775-1870 (Oxford University Press, Clarendon imprint, Oxford). Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Award, 1997, and the Katharine Briggs Memorial Prize, University College London.
Articles
2003 Forthcoming: 'Australian Mixed Race', European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 7, 2004.
2001 'The Trial of Joseph Powell, Fortune-teller', Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 27-45.
1999 Maureen Perkins & Ian Morrison, 'A Bibliography of Australian Almanacs, 1806-ca. 1920: Notes on Work in Progress', Biblionews vol. 24, no. 1 (March, 1999).
1999 'The Meaning of Dream Books', History Workshop Journal, vol. 48, (Sept/Oct 1999), pp. 102-113.
Book Chapters
2004 'Australian Almanacs' in Wallace Kirsop & Elizabeth Webby, History of the Book in Australia, vol. 1.
2003 Forthcoming: 'False Whiteness', in Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ed., Critical Contexts (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra).
2003 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in Lyndal Roper and Daniel Pick, eds., Dreams and History (Brunner-Routledge, London).
Edited Journals
2004 Life Writing, Vol 1-1, no 1, co-edited with Mary Besemeres.
2003 Mots Pluriels, no. 23, 'Translated Lives', co-edited with Mary Besemeres.
2000 Australian Journal of Politics and History, Spring 2000, edited with Dr Franz Oswald.
Ten Career-Best Publications
2004 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in Lyndal Roper and Daniel Pick, eds., Dreams and History (Brunner-Routledge, London).
2003 with Ian Morrison and Tracy Caulfield, Australian Almanacs 1806-1930, Melbourne: Quiddlers Press.
2003 Forthcoming: 'Australian Mixed Race', European Journal of Cultural Studies.
2001 'The Trial of Joseph Powell, Fortune-teller', Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 27-45.
2001 The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity (Pluto Press, London).
1999 Maureen Perkins & Ian Morrison, 'A Bibliography of Australian Almanacs, 1806-ca. 1920: Notes on Work in Progress', Biblionews vol. 24, no. 1 (March, 1999).
1999 'The Meaning of Dream Books', History Workshop Journal, vol. 48, (Sept/Oct 1999), pp. 102-113.
1998 'Timeless Cultures: the Dreamtime as Colonial Discourse', Time and Society, vol. 7, no. 2 (Sept 1998), pp. 337-53.
1999 With Iain McCalman: 'Popular Culture' in I. McCalman, ed., An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832 (Oxford University Press, 1999).
1999 8 entries in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832: 'Almanacs', 'Astrology', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fortune Telling', 'Joanna Southcott', 'Prophecies', 'Street Literature', and 'Thomas Taylor/Neoplatonism'.
Professional Development and community service
2003 Co-Director, Life Writing Research Unit, co-ordinator of seminar program and e-list.
2003 Chair of 'Gynosophia', women's arts group, mounting exhibition 2005.
2002-3 Adviser to City of Gosnells cross-cultural training programme.
2002 Member of panel at City of Gosnells multicultural forum.
2000-2 Convenor, postgraduate seminar program, School of Communication & Cultural Studies, Curtin University.
2000-3 Guest speaker for various community and academic groups, e.g. Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Migration Research Network, Curtin Humanities postgraduate conference, Centre for Aboriginal Studies research conference, Ora community group, Jewish centre, New Norcia librarians' day.
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