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Dr Roger Osborne’s research interests include international print cultures, scholarly editing, textual theory and world literature of the 1920s. Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Australian Studies Centre (2004)
Roger is currently working on a history of Australian magazine culture (1900-1930).
With limited opportunities for publication in the early 1900s, daily newspapers, weeklies and monthly magazines provided an important outlet for Australian writers and graphic artists. However, the magazine market was dominated by imported titles from Great Britain and the United States of America, suggesting that the interest of Australian magazine readers was frequently directed overseas. Mapping the ways in which imported and local magazines addressed Australian readers will support a substantial analysis of Australia's magazine culture.
In addition to the Bulletin’s influential ‘Red Page’, some of the Australian magazines selected for examination include the Bookfellow, the Lone Hand, Steele Rudd’s Magazine, the Triad and the Australian Journal. Overseas magazines include Munsey's Magazine, the Bookman, T.P's Weekly and John O' London's.
Roger completed his BA (Hons) at the University of New Orleans. His PhD (UNSW), a textual history and scholarly edition of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes, was completed in 1999 and he is currently a volume editor for the Cambridge Collected Works of Joseph Conrad. Since 2000 he has been associated with AustLit: the Australian Literature Gateway, most recently enhancing the records of Australian magazines.
With a strong interest in international print cultures, Roger has presented papers and published articles that concentrate on the processes of literary production in Australia, Great Britain and the United States.
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