Contact Details
| Organization: | Culture and Communication |
| Position: | RESEARCH FELLOW: FROM COLONIAL TO MODERN |
| Email: | |
| Homepage: | http://www.girlsliterature.com |
| Work: | 8344 3359 |
| Room: | 314 |
| Level: | 03 |
| Building: | John Medley Building |
| Campus: | Parkville |
Biography
Michelle Smith is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication who works on femininity, especially as it relates to empire and colonialism, in print culture in the long nineteenth century. Her monograph Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in July 2011. Her research on British girls’ books and magazines has also been published in journals including Victorian Periodicals Review, English Literature in Transition and The Lion and the Unicorn and in edited collections including Victorian Settler Narratives (Pickering & Chatto) and Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time (Palgrave Macmillan).
She has recently published articles in New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (with Professor Jeanette Hoorn, on race and modern femininity in Rudall Hayward's "community comedies"), Continuum (with Dr Elizabeth Parsons, on femininity and environmentalism in animated children's film) and Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to Cultural Icon (on Tarzan of the Apes and Darwinism). She has articles forthcoming in Girls, Texts, Cultures (Wilfrid Laurier Press, on Australian girls in British fiction from 1880-1925), Open Graves, Open Minds (Manchester University Press, on race in HBO's True Blood) and Narratives and Repetition (Palgrave Macmillan, on national identity in the Victorian School Paper).
Michelle is currently working on colonial Australian girls’ print culture as part of an ARC Discovery Project with Dr Kristine Moruzi (University of Alberta) and Professor Clare Bradford (Deakin University), which includes the Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls conference in June 2012. She has written articles, primarily about gender and literature, for The Age, On Line Opinion and The Conversation, has been interviewed numerous times on ABC radio and television, and maintains a blog at www.girlsliterature.com
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest | Country of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Victorian literature and culture | United Kingdom, Australia |
| empire and colonialism | Australia |
| girls' print culture | Australia, United Kingdom, Canada |
International Linkages
| Country | Establishment | Collaboration |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | University of Alberta | Research |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards
Qualifications
| Title | Institution | Date Awarded | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy | University of Melbourne | 31-Dec-2007 | |
| Master of Arts | University of Melbourne | 31-Dec-2003 | |
| Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | The University of Queensland | 31-Dec-2001 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
- British and Irish (LITERATURE STUDIES) (420201)
- Australian and New Zealand (LITERATURE STUDIES) (420202)
- Cultural Theory (CULTURAL STUDIES) (420302)
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality (CULTURAL STUDIES) (420303)
- Screen and Media Culture (CULTURAL STUDIES) (420304)
- Consumption and Everyday Life (CULTURAL STUDIES) (420307)
- History: British (HISTORICAL STUDIES) (430107)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Print Cultures (1840-1940) | Chief Investigator | AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL | Discovery Projects | 01/01/2011 |
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.