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Dr David Carter’s research interests include Australian cultural history, popular culture, literary studies, and studies in modernity. David Carter has been Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland since moving from Griffith University at the beginning of 2001. He has extensive experience in teaching and developing programs in Australian studies in Australia and internationally, and is currently involved in Australian studies projects in Japan, China, India and Indonesia. He was President of the International Australian Studies Association from 1997 to 2001, and remains a member of its Executive and editor of its e-bulletin Crossings.
Dr Carter’s research interests are in the area of Australian cultural history, and in particular: print culture studies, publishing history, literary history, Australian magazines and periodicals, media/cultural institutions, and modernity. He is currently researching a history of ‘middlebrow culture’ in Australia and leading a project studying ‘rural popular cultures’.
He is the editor of The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life (MUP 2004); Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures (UQP 2004); Stories from Down Under: Nine Short Stories from Australia and New Zealand, with Karin Ikas (Langenscheidt, 2004); Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, with Tony Bennett (Cambridge UP, 2001); Exploring Australia: A Textbook for International Students, with Chilla Bulbeck (Griffith University, 2000); Judah Waten: Fiction, Memoirs and Criticism (University of Queensland Press, 1998); The Republicanism Debate with Wayne Hudson (NSWUP, 1993); Celebrating the Nation: A Study of Australia's Bicentenary with T. Bennett, P. Buckridge and C. Mercer (Allen & Unwin, 1992); Images of Australia: An Introductory Reader to Australian Studies with Gillian Whitlock (University of Queensland Press, 1992); Outside the Book: Contemporary Essays on Literary Periodicals (Local Consumption Publications, 1991). He is the author of A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (ASAL/ Halstead, 1997), winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award for literary scholarship; 'Critics, Writers, Intellectuals: Australian Literature and its Criticism' in the Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (ed. Webby, Cambridge UP, 2000); book chapters, articles and reviews on Australian studies, literature and cultural history.
He has been Visiting Professor in Australian Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Soochow (Suzhou) University, PR China; Project Manager: Australian Studies in Thailand, Australian Studies in Taiwan; Visiting Lecturer in Japan and France; Consultant to Australia-China Council. Supervision of scholars from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Thailand in Australia.
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