Dr Peta Mitchell    Senior Lecturer

	Biography

Peta's research interests include online publishing, new media technologies, poststructuralist and spatial theories, twentieth-century fiction, cartography, metaphor, and rhetoric. Her research has resulted in a number of book chapters and journal articles on critical theory and twentieth-century literature, as well as a recent monograph on cartographic metaphor. She is also co-chief investigator The Cultural Atlas of Australia, an ARC-funded project (2011–2013). Selected publications:

Monographs:

• Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• Contagious Metaphor. London: Continuum, forthcoming 2012.

• Pockets of Change: Cultural Adaptations and Transitions. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2011. (co-edited with Jane Stadler, Tricia Hopton, and Adam Atkinson).

• “Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives.” (With Jane Stadler). Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Robert Tally. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011.
• “‘The Stratified Record upon Which We Set our Feet’: The Spatial Turn and the Multilayering of History, Geography, and Geology.” Geography and the Humanities. Ed. Michael Dear, et al. New York: Routledge, 2011. 71–83.
• “Digital Literacy, New Media, and the Spaces of Academic Discourse.” Learning the Virtual Life. Ed. Peter Trifonas. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2011.
• “Evolving the Field: Adaptation Studies in Transition.” (With Adam Atkinson, Tricia Hopton, and Jane Stadler.) Pockets of Change: Cultural Adaptations and Transitions. Ed. Tricia Hopton et al. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2011.
• “Geographies/Aerographies of Contagion.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29 (2011): 533–50.
• “Building Sensitising Terms to Understand Free-play in Open-ended interactive Art Environments." (Co-authored with Ann Morrison and Stephen Viller.) CHI2011: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press, 2011. 2335-44.
• “Never-Never Land: Affective Landscapes, the Touristic Gaze and Heterotopic Space in Australia.” (With Jane Stadler.) Studies in Australasian Cinema 4.2 (2010): 173–87.
• “Imaginative Cinematic Geographies of Australia: The Mapped View in Charles Chauvel’s Jedda and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.” (With Jane Stadler.) Historical Geography 38 (2010): 26–51.
• “On-line Publishing,” “Interactive Fiction,” “Vanity Publishing,” and “Self-publication.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010.
• “Ethnography Considered Useful: Situating Criticality.” (With Ann Morrison and Stephen Viller.) OZCHI 2010. New York: ACM Press, 2010.
• “Academics and the New Public Intellectual.” (With Angi Buettner.) The Knowledge Economy Academic and the Commodification of Higher Education. Ed. Tom Giberson and Greg Giberson. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2009. 13–26.
• “The Politics of Open-Access Publishing.” M/C Journal 11.4 (2008): http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/38.
• “Evoking Gesture in Interactive Art.” (With Ann Morrison and Stephen Viller.) ACM Multimedia 2008. New York: ACM Press, 2008. 11–18.
• “The Lens of Ludic Engagement: Evaluating Participation in Interactive Art Installations.” (With Ann Morrison and Margot Brereton.) ACM Multimedia 2007. New York: ACM Press, 2007. 509–12.
• “Artefact and Iteration.” (With Ann Morrison.) OZCHI 2006. Baulkham Hills, NSW: HFES Australia, 2006. 22–25.
• “Talk2Me: The Art of Augmenting Conversations.” (With Ann Morrison and Ralf Muhlberger.) ACM Multimedia 2006. New York: ACM Press, 2006. 197–200.
• “Constructing the Architext: Georges Perec’s Life A User’s Manual.” Mosaic 37.1 (2004): 1–16.
• “Spatial Metaphor as Spatial Technique in the Work of Michel Foucault.” Interruptions: Essays in the Poetics/Politics of Space. Ed. Lorraina Pinnell. Gazimagusa: EMU P, 2003. 47–55.

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