Associate Professor David Carter
Director, Australian Studies Centre, The University of Queensland
Current ARC Projects
The Making of the Australian Middlebrow: Nationalism, Modernity and Middlebrow Culture in Australia
Popular Cultures and Social Change: Case Studies from Rural Queensland
Building Australian Literary Knowledge Infrastructure
Publications
Edited Books
Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, edited plus General and Section Introductions with T. Bennett (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 364pp.
Judah Waten: Fiction, Memoirs and Criticism. Edited plus critical introduction (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998), 337pp.
Chapters in Books
'The Story of our Epoch, A Hero of Our Time: The Communist Novelist in Post-War Australia', in Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment, eds Adams and Lee, (Melbourne: Red Rag Publications, 2003), pp. 85-107. (In press; accepted 2001.)
'The Public Life of Literature', with Kay Ferres, in Culture in Australia, eds Bennett & Carter (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.140-60.
'Six Theses on Contemporary Australia', in Changing Geographies: Essays on Australia, eds Ballyn et al. (University of Barcelona, 2001), pp.59-71.
'Critics, Writers, Intellectuals: Australian Literature and Its Criticism', in The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature, ed. Webby (Melbourne: CUP, 2000), pp.258-293.
'Past and Future', in The Australian Legend and its Discontents, ed. Nile (University of Queensland Press, 2000), pp.59-77. First published as 'Working on the Past, Working on the Future' in Becoming Australia: The Woodford Forum, eds Nile & Peterson (St Lucia: UQP, 1998), pp.6-25.
'Modest Nationalism, Mundane Diversity and Positive Unoriginality: Models of Cultural Originality and Transfer in Australia', in Australian Nationalism Reconsidered: Maintaining a Monocultural Tradition in a Multicultural Society, ed. Wimmer (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999), pp.72-83. Also published as 'Australian Popular Culture: Models of Influence and Originality', in New Directions in Australian Studies, eds vanden Driesen & Mitchell (New Delhi: Prestige, 2000), pp.68-81.
'Magazine Culture: Notes Towards a History of Australian Periodical Publication 1920-1970', in Australian Literature and the Public Sphere, eds Bartlett, Dixon & Lee (Toowoomba: ASAL, 1999), pp.69-79.
Refereed Articles
'Communism and Carnival: Ralph de Boissiere's Crown Jewel and its Australian Context', To the Islands: Australia and the Caribbean, ed. McDougall, special issue of Australian Cultural History 21, 2002 pp.97-106.
'Going, Going, Gone? Britishness and Englishness in Contemporary Australian Culture', Overland 169 (Summer 2002), pp.81-86.
'Public Intellectuals, Book Culture and Civil Society', Australian Humanities Review December 2001-February 2002, http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/
'Magazine History', Media International Australia 99 (May 2001), pp.9-14.
'Good Readers and Good Citizens: Literature, Media and the Nation', Australian Literary Studies 19, 2 (October 1999), pp.136-51.
'Coleman's Old Cold War', Overland 153 (Summer 1998), pp.4-7.
'The Cultural Meanings of the Republican Debate in Australia', Journal of Australian Studies (Japan), 11 (December 1998), pp.47-59.
'The Wide Brown Land on the Small Grey Screen: The Nature of Landscape on Australian Television', Journal of Australian Studies 58 (1998), pp.116-26.
Current Research Interests
Australian cultural history
studies in print culture
rural popular cultures