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DR ANTHONY BIRCH



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Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN CREATIVE WRITING
Email:
Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/tony-birch.html
Work: +61 3 8344 5483
Fax: +61 3 8344 5494
Room: 137
Level: 01
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Professional Creative Writing: fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction Australia
Australian and Indigenous Literatures and Cultures Australia
Australian and Indigenous Literatures and Cultures Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 01-Dec-2000
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

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

Creative Works

  • Carlton versus Adelaide


    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Footy Almanac 2008
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9780670073306
    Publisher: Malarkey Publications(Fitzroy)
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  • Carlton versus Brisbane


    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Footy Almanac 2008
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9780670073306
    Publisher: Malarkey Publications(Fitzroy)
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  • Carlton versus Essendon


    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Footy Almanac 2008
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9780670073306
    Publisher: Malarkey Publications(Fitzroy)
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  • Carlton versus Fremantle


    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Footy Almanac 2008
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9780670073306
    Publisher: Malarkey Publications(Fitzroy)
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  • Carlton versus Fremantle


    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Footy Almanac 2008
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9780670073306
    Publisher: Malarkey Publications(Fitzroy)
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  • Gardening for Pleasure
    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Best Australian Stories 2008
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9781863952958
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  • The last time I saw Cherry
    Year: 2008
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Heat 16 (2008): 61-70
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 9781920882426
    Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Company(Artarmon NSW)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • 'The Invisible Fire': Sovereignty, History and Responsibility
    Year: 2007
    Book: Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters
    Publisher: Allen & Unwin(Crows Nest)
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  • High Noon In Brendan Lee's Proving Ground
    Year: 2007
    Book: NewO7
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art(Melbourne)
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  • Locks of hair to untangle: speaking but not being heard
    Year: 2007
    Book: Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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  • The Dolls House
    Year: 2007
    Book: Making Space: Artist-run initiatives in Victoria
    Publisher: Victorian Initiative of Artists Networks(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Questions For A Good Citizen
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Right Now
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 33-34
    Author(s):
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Creative Works

  • How Sweet The Sound
    Year: 2007
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Deja Vu: Antithesis 17 (2007): 40-48
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 1030-3939
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Songs That Changed Your Life
    Year: 2007
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Sleepers Almanac 2007 - The Family Affair
    Edition: 3
    ISBN: 978 1 74066 504 9
    Publisher: Hardie Grant Books(South Yarra)
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  • The Return
    Year: 2007
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (Maps of Reconciliation Literature and the Ethical Imagination)
    Edition: 19.2
    ISBN: 1045-7909
    Publisher: University of Hawaii Press(Honolulu)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • 'Finger prints marking time': a Tandurrum for contemporary Australia
    Year: 2006
    Book: Common goods: cultures meet through craft
    Publisher: Craft Victoria(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • 'I could feel it in my body': war on a history war
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Transforming Cultures eJournal
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-32
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  • All our days
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Parity
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 8
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  • Boxing history
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Southern Review
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 110-113
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Creative Works

  • Bulldozers
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Manoa
    ISBN: 1527943X
    Publisher: University of Hawaii Press(Honolulu)
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  • Gifted
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Overland
    ISBN: 097751711X
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  • Hygiene for a nation's soul
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Stolen wealth poster series
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Breakdown Press(Carlton)
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  • Our father's house
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The South Project
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: http://www.southproject.org/Wellington/Wellingtonresponses
    Publisher: The South Project(Melbourne)
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  • Shadowboxing
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Shadowboxing
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 1920769706
    Publisher: Scribe Publications(Melbourne)
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  • The good Howard
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Heat
    ISBN: 1920882162
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  • The true history of Beruk (William Barak)
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Meanjin
    ISBN: 0815953X
    Publisher: Meanjin Company(Melbourne)
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  • waterfrontcity
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Suburban fantasies: Melbourne unmasked
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 174097090X
    Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • 'Death is forgotten in victory': colonial landscapes and narratives of emptiness
    Year: 2005
    Book: Object Lessons: Archaeology & Heritage in Australia
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002919/
  • Black on White
    Year: 2005
    Book: Black on White: an exhibition of photographs by Aboriginal artists representing non-Aboriginality
    Publisher: Centre for Contemporary Photography(Melbourne)
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  • Surveillance, Identity and Historical Memory in Ivan Sen's Beneath Clouds
    Year: 2005
    Book: Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Creative Works

  • Chroming
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Agenda
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 00020796
    Publisher: Agenda(London)
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  • Hygiene for the nation's soul
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Agenda
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 00020796
    Publisher: Agenda(London)
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  • Meeting with the toe-cutter.
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Antithesis
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 10303839
    Publisher: Department of English, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Scenes of domestic life
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Imprint 8
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 2005
    Publisher: Queensland Government, Department of Education and the Arts(Brisbane)
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  • The Station
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Overland
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 00307416
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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  • White Nation
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The Quarterly Sydney Pen Centre
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 2005
    Publisher: Pen Centre(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

Creative Works

  • A songline for Minoru
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Cultural Studies Review
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 14468123
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • At the creek
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Postcolonial Studies
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 14661888
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Oxfordshire)
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  • Footnote to a History War (Archive Box no.2)
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Meanjin
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 00256293
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • June 16
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Vintage : celebrating ten years of the Mildura Writers' Festival
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 1740661893
    Publisher: Hardie Grant Books(South Yarra)
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  • Like a Paintbox
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Spinach7
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 14479753
    Publisher: Spinach7 Media(Melbourne)
    Authors/Performers:
    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002018/
  • Two Kitchens
    Year: 2004
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Mumma's Kitchen- Recipes and Stories
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 073331418X
    Publisher: ABC Books(Sydney)
    Authors/Performers:
    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001672/

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

Creative Works

  • 1988
    Year: 2003
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: West of the West: Writing, Images and sound from Melbourne's West
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 1863355367
    Publisher: Common Ground Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Archive Box
    Year: 2003
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Law / Text / Culture
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 13229060
    Publisher: Centre for Research into Textual & Cultural Studies, University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
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  • Mahzar
    Year: 2003
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Arena Magazine
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 10391010
    Publisher: Arena Printing and Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Razor Wire Nation
    Year: 2003
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Overland
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 00307416
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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  • The Colony of the Dead
    Year: 2003
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Law / Text / Culture
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 13229060
    Publisher: Centre for Research into Textual & Cultural Studies, University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

Creative Works

  • Ashes
    Year: 2002
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Salt. v16
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 1876857587
    Publisher: Salt Publishing(Applecross)
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  • The Butcher's Wife
    Year: 2002
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Strange Cities
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 14474670
    Publisher: Crooked Styles Press(Melbourne)
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  • The lesson
    Year: 2002
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Overland
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 00307416
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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  • traces
    Year: 2002
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Antithesis
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 10303839
    Publisher: Department of English, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Creative Works

  • Small Hands
    Year: 2001
    Edition: 20
    ISBN: 1863350152
    Publisher: Common Ground Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • The Red House
    Year: 2001
    Edition: 20
    ISBN: 13231677
    Publisher: John Libbey Publishing(Eastleigh)
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