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A publisher's archive are full of scandal and intrique as well as providing a powerful insight into understanding ourselves and what we read and what we will pay for. In the wider field of cultural history and the history of the book, Deborah contributes her analysis of the University of Queensland Press to two projects, one of the halcyon days of Australian publishing 1965-1995, the other on American edition of Australian books. She continues her research on the Palmers, with a transcription of their love letters, 1909-1964 and a reading of their work in terms of the environmental imagination. Nettie Palmer: Search for an Aesthetic - came out in 1999.
The inter-relationships of ideas, place, community and spirituality resonate with Deborah's other recent projects. With Carole Ferrier she has been exploring Queensland women's history. There's a Woman in the House is a collection of newspaper articles written by her mother, Jean Lynette Jordan, on women's issues in the 1950s and 1960s. Deborah has also written about Australian Sea Lions, in an account of six years on South Neptune Island in South Australia.
Deborah has worked as researcher, professional historian, writer and teacher in the university, government and private sectors - in local history, maritime heritage, disabilities, cultural heritage, Queensland women's history and so on. Publications include The World of Work in South Australia, EastCoast Shipwrecks, The Independent Schools of South Australia. She contributed to Onkaparinga Heritage and has written and reviewed widely in women's history and the environment.
Deborah's post-doctoral work examined the Aboriginal Household Economy from 1836 to 1980. Deborah taught The Foundation of Australia and New Zealand to 1850 at Flinders University for many years and also in a multi-disciplinary course 'Nuclear Peace and Nuclear War'. She continues this strand of interest in imperialism, race relations, postcolonialism and cultural boundaries.
Recent publications include Hibiscus and Ti-Tree Women in Queensland Hecate Press 2009 and
'Emerging Black Writing and the University of Queensland Press' in Robert Dixon and Katherine Bode(eds) Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press 2009.
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