Professor Robert Dixon
ARC Professorial Fellow, Australian Studies Centre, The University of Queensland
Current ARC Projects
2003 ‘Frank Hurley: The Making of a Modern Cultural Icon’.
Publications
Single-authored books
Prosthetic Gods: Travel, representation and colonial governance. UQP Australian Studies Series. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001.
Edited Books
Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001. (with Delys Bird and Christopher Lee)
Chapters in Books
‘Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in In L. Idriess’ Coral Sea adventures’, in Body Trade: Captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific, edited by Jeanette Hoorn and Barbara Creed. London and Sydney: Routledge in association with Pluto Press, 2001, pp.112-25.
‘Introduction’. Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 edited by Delys Bird, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001.
‘The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, globalisation and the environment’, in Helen Tiffin, ed. Colonialism and the Environment. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
‘Frank Hurley’s Pearls and Savages’: Travel, represeentation and colonial governance’, in In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire edited by Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston. New York: Peter Lang, 2002, pp. 191-216.
‘Kingsley’s Geoffry Hamlyn and the Art of Landscape’. Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism vol. 107, edited by Edna M Hedblad and Russel Whitaker. Acton, Mass: Gale, 2002, pp.239-250. [Reprint of article originally appearing in Southerly 37.3 (September 1977): 274-99].
‘Travelling in the West: The Writing of Amitav Ghosh’. In Tabish Khair, ed. Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003, pp.9-35. [Reprint of article originally appearing in Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31.1 (1996): 3-24].
‘Neoclassicism and Early Colonial Australia’. Lectures La Fontaine. St Petersburg: University of St Petersburg, 2003.
‘Two Versions of Australian Pastoral: Les Murray and William Robinson’. In Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe, eds, Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. (forthcoming)
Refereed Articles
‘The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalisation and the Nation-State’. The UTS Review, 5.2 (November 1999): 85-100.
‘The Prosthetic Imagination: Frank Hurley and the Ross Smith Flight’. Journal of Australian Studies: Vision Splendid 66 (2000): 1-22, 250-1.
‘Citizens and Asylum Seekers: Emotional Literacy, Rhetorical Leadership and Human Rights’. Cultural Studies Review 8.2 (November 2002): 11-26.
‘Pictures at an Exhibition: Frank Hurley’s In the Grip of the Polar Pack Ice (1919) and the exhibitionary context of early cinema’. Journal of Australian Studies 78 (2003): 122-37; 217-8.
‘Australian Literary Studies and Post-colonialism’. AUMLA 100 (November 2003): 117-130.
Entries in Reference Books
‘Richard Sydney Porteous’. Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 16 1940-1980 Pik-Z.
Current Research Interests
an illustrated edition of Frank Hurley’s diaries
a book on Frank Hurley and colonial modernity