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DR ELIZABETH ANNE MAXWELL



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/anne-maxwell.html
Work: +61 3 8344 5481
Fax: +61 3 8344 5494
Room: 244
Level: 02
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Colonial visual cultures; race theory; eugenics Photography & visual objects Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, Germany
African American Literature United States of America
Genetic engineering in literary science fiction Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
New Zealand literature; postcolonial & colonial literature; Race & American literature; travel writing New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The University of Auckland 31-Dec-1975
Master of Arts The University of Auckland 31-Dec-1983
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Photography & eugenics: an historical investigation of photography's role in the development & popularisation of the eugenics movement Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Maoriland Stories
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Ngaio Press(Wellington)
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  • Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics 1870-1940
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Sussex Academic Press(Sussex)
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Book Chapters

  • Alfred Grace and Maoriland Stories
    Year: 2008
    Book: Maoriland Stories
    Publisher: Ngaio Press(Wellington)
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Journal Articles

  • Postcolonial Literary Criticism and Global Warming
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-20
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  • Public Intellectuals and their Publics
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Humanities Review
    Volume: 44
    Issue: March
    Page numbers: 113-120
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • White/Aboriginal relations on the colonial frontier: reading the anthropometric photographs of Paul Foelsche
    Year: 2007
    Book: Australia: who cares?
    Publisher: API Network(Perth)
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Journal Articles

  • Encountering the Cultural Other: Virginia Woolf in Constantinople and Katherine Mansfield in the Ureweras
    Year: 2007
    Journal: ARIEL - A Review of International English Literature
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2-3
    Page numbers: 19-40
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • A young writer's journey into the New Zealand interior: Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera Notebook
    Year: 2006
    Book: Travel writing in the nineteenth century: filling in the blanks
    Publisher: Anthem Press(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of Eye contact: photographing indigenous Australians by Jane Lydon. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 142-143
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  • Review of Terry Collits, Postcolonial Conrad: paradoxes of empire (London, Routledge, 2005)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Thesis Eleven
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 145-148
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Review of A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 774-775
    Publisher: Routledge - Taylor & Francis(Abingdon)
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  • Review of Picturing place: photography and the geographical imagination
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cultural Geographies
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 112-113
    Publisher: Hodder Arnold Journals
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Photographs of Racial Types: W.E.B. Du Bois' Challenge to American Society
    Year: 2004
    Book: Unsettling America: Crisis and Belonging in United States History
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination ed. by James Ryan and Joan Schwartz
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cultural Geographies
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 112-113
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Melancholy in Dr Wooreddy's Prescription
    Year: 2002
    Book: Contemporary issues in Australian Literature
    Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers(London)
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  • Montrez L'Autre: Franz Boas et les Soeurs Gerhard / Showing the Other: Franz Boas and the Gerhard Sisters
    Year: 2002
    Book: Zoos humains: X!Xe et XXe siècles [Human zoos: 19th and 20th centuries]
    Publisher: Editions la Decouverte(Paris)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • In the shadow of imperialism: photography and the colonised body in Australia and New Zealand
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Art New Zealand
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 82-87
    Publisher: Art Magazine Press(Auckland)
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