Humanities Reserach Centre, RSHA: 2010 Visiting Fellows
Dr Donna MERWICK DENING,
Long Term RSH Visiting Fellow, Melbourne. (26 March 2009 to 25 March 2012). Email: dening@patash.com.au
Dr Glen BARCLAY, Canberra.
(1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010). Email: glen.barclay@anu.edu.au
Professor Penny EDWARDS, University
of California, Berkeley, USA. (1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010).
Email: pennyedwards@berkeley.edu
Dr Mary EDMUNDS, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Perth. (1 January
2010 to 31 March 2010). Email: mary.edmunds@bigpond.com
Mr Peter FAY, Sydney, NSW. (1 January
2010 to 31 March 2010). Email: pkf@idx.com.au
Professor Rosemary JOLLY,
Department of English, IPPH & SARC, Queen's University, Cananda. Humans at the Limit: HIV/AIDS and the En-gendering of Genocide in sub-Saharan Africa. (TBC 18 January 2010 to 15 March 2010). E: jollyr@queensu.ca
A/Professor Shirley LIM, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook, USA. Imaging Race and Gender in Australia: Anna May Wong. (25 January 2010 to 19 April 2010). Email: sjlim@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Dr Matthew CHRISTENSEN, Department of English, University of Texas, USA. Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Rebellion, Black Transnationalism, and Modernity in Sierra Leone and the United States. (25 January 2010 to 19 April 2010). Email: mchriste@utpa.edu
Professor Elizabeth WELLS, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth, UK. Land, Landscape and Identity. (25 January 2010 to 19 April 2010). Email: liz.wells@plymouth.ac.uk
Professor Diana BRYDON, St John's College, Department of English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada. Home in National and Global Imaginaries. (1 February 2010 to 23 April 2010). Email: brydond@cc.umanitoba.ca
Professor Wendy WEBSTER, Education and Social Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, UK. Englishness and Europe, 1939-75. (15 February 2010 - 7 May 2010). Email: wwebster@uclan.ac.uk
Jacqueline MENZIES, Asian Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Satiricla Gaze in India, 18th Century and later. (15 February 2010 to 3 may 2010 plus 12-19 July 2010). Email: jackiem@ag.nsw.gov.au
Professor Paula HAMILTON, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. Biography and the senses: putting the visual into perspective. (8 March 2010 - 31 May 2010). Email: paula.hamilton@uts.edu.au
Professor Stephen CLANCY, Art History, Ithana College, USA. Visualizing the Self and Others: Muslins, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Iberia. (15 March 2010 to 7 June 2010). Email: clancy@ithaca.edu
Dr Luke GARTLAN, School of Art History, University of St Andrews, UK. Photographic Portraiture in Meiji Japan: New Practices, Customers, and Representations. (14 June 2010 to 5 September 2010). Email: lg321@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth CORY-PEARCE, Department of Anthropology, University College London. Form, Surface and Effect: Maori Portraiture in Cross-cultural Perspective. (28 June 2010 to 20 September 2010). Email: elizabeth@corypearce.co.uk
Dr Karen GREENE, Medical Anthropology, Stanford University, USA. Gift of Abandonment: The Value of 'Children' and the Poetics and Politics of Adoption in 21st Century Cambodia. (10 July 2010 to 21 August 2010). Email: greenejobs@gmail.com
Professor Susan CLAYSON, Art History, Northwestern University, USA. Electric Paris: The City of Light in the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic (1870-1914). (2 August 2010 to 27 September 2010). Email: shc@northwestern.edu
Dr Lisanne GIBSON, Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK. Museums and the politics of Urban Redevelopment. (23 August 2010 to 1 October 2010). Email: lg80@le.ac.uk
Dr Petra KUPPERS, Department of English, University of Michigan, USA. Disability Representation in Australia: Imaging Disability Culture. (27 September 2010 to 20 December 2010). Email: petra@umich.edu
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Visiting Fellows Biographies
JOLLY,
Professor Rosemary
Dates: TBC 18 January 2010 to 15 March 2010
Research Project: Humans
at the Limit: HIV/AIDS and the En-gendering of Genocide in sub-Saharan
Africa
Professor Jolly is principal investigator of a project, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, on gender based violence and HIV/AIDS, located in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; and co-investigator of a SSHRCC project comparing syphilis and related STIs prior to penicillin and contemporary HIV/AIDS in the rural South African context. These projects are situated in the nexus of public health, cultural and human rights discourses (see “For Northern Displacements: Understanding the Meaning of Madness in Global Constructions of AIDS,” The Global South 1.1 (Winter 2007):55-65). She is completing an ms. for Chicago and Liverpool University |Presses on the role of South African narratives in conceptualizations of human rights, and the violation of those rights, in post-apartheid culture (see “’Going to the Dogs’: Humanity in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, The Lives of Animals and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” in Poyner, ed. J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual (Ohio UP, 2006): 148-171.
Dr. Jolly is a recipient of the Frank Knox Award for Teaching Excellence.
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Lim, Professor Shirley
Dates: 25 January 2010 to 19 April 2010
Research Project: Imaging Race and Gender in Australia: Anna May Wong
Shirley Jennifer Lim is Associate Professor of History and affiliate faculty in Women’s Studies, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The author of A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960 (NYU 2006), she is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled “Performing the Modern: Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker.”
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Christensen, Dr Matthew
Dates: 25 January 2010 to 19 April 2010
Research Project: Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Rebellion, Black Transnationalism, and Modernity in Sierra Leone and the United States
Matthew Christensen is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas-Pan American, located on the U.S.-Mexico border, where teaches African, postcolonial, and comparative world literature. He is completing his first book, Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Rebellion, Black Transnationalism, and Modernity in Sierra Leone and the United States, which examines the cultural afterlives of the 1839 shipboard rebellion as it has been deployed to confront the legacies of Atlantic capitalism.
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Wells, Professor Liz
Dates: 25 January 2010 to 19 April 2010
Research Project: Land, Landscape and Identity
Liz Wells writes and lectures on photographic practices. She is editor of The Photography Reader, 2003 and of Photography: A Critical Introduction, 2009, 4th ed.; also co-editor of photographies, Routledge journals.
Exhibitions as curator include Uneasy Spaces, an exhibition of work by 19 British-based artists working in photography and photo-video (New York, Sept - Nov. 2006) and Facing East, Contemporary Landscape Photography from Baltic Areas (UK tour 2004 - 2007). Her book, Land Matters: Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity, is due publication 2010. Other publications on landscape include Liz Wells, Kate Newton and Catherine Fehily, eds., Shifting Horizons, Women’s Landscape Photography Now, 2000.
She is Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth, UK, and convenes the research group for Land/Water and the Visual Arts. www.landwater-research
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Brydon, Professor Diana
Dates: 1 February 2010 to 23 April 2010
Research Project: Home in National and Global Imaginaries
Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has published books on Christina Stead and Timothy Findley, edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies and co-edited Shakespeare in Canada and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts. She currently serves as a member of the international convening group for a project on “Building Global Democracy” (www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org) and is conducting research on home in global and national imaginaries and new literacies in cross-cultural contexts.
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Webster, Professor Wendy
Dates: 15 February to 7 May 2010
Research Project: Englishness and Europe, 1935-1973
Wendy Webster’s current project on Englishness and Europe has been supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
Her writing, initially mainly in journalism, led to the publication of Not A Man To Match Her: The Marketing of a Prime Minister (Women’s Press, 1990). Since she turned to academic work, she has published widely on questions of imperialism, race, ethnicity, gender, migration and national identity, in contemporary British history including Imagining Home: Gender, ‘Race’, and National Identity (UCL Press, 1998) and Englishness and Empire, 1939-1965 (Oxford University Press, 2005) which was awarded the International Association for Media and History prize for best work in the field in 2006. Her latest book, co-edited with Louise Ryan is Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-war Britain (Ashgate, 2008). For further information on her current project and her publications, see
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/wendy_webster.php
She is Professor Emerita of Contemporary British History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Clancy, Professor Stephen
Dates: 15 March 2010 to 7 June 2010
Research Project:
Visualizing the Self and Others: Muslins, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Iberia
Stephen Clancy is Professor and Chair of the Art History department at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He began his professional life as a lawyer, before deciding to hang up his “law suits” to don the robes of academia. Professor Clancy teaches the history of Ancient, Medieval, and Northern Renaissance art and architecture, as well as general courses on visual culture and the rhetoric of images. Professor Clancy has published and presented extensively on the French fifteenth-century artist Jean Fouquet, Middle Byzantine ivory carving, and the northern French illuminator and panel painter Simon Marmion; his work on Marmion was supported by Fulbright Scholar and American Philosophical Society Awards in Belgium in 1995-96. His interest in infusing technology into the humanities led him to develop an interactive architectural visualization project entitled "The Virtual Chartres Cathedral" (http://www.ithaca.edu/chartres), created with the aid of grants from the Hewlett and Keck foundations, and a six-month collaboration with Prof. Bharat Dave of the University of Melbourne. For a number of years he has also served as a lecturer and study leader on educational tours sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. His current research project takes a trans-cultural approach to exploring specific ways in which Islamic, Christian, and Jewish cultures of medieval Iberia “[came] to know themselves and make sense of their relations with others” (Thomas Glick, “Convivencia: An Introductory Note,” Convivencia: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (New York, 1992), 1) by reacting inventively – in a continual series of visual responses and counter-response – when confronted with cultural traditions very different from their own. He is particularly interested in the intersection between resistance and appropriation in medieval Iberian visual culture, including post-medieval appropriations of rejected past identities. This research project in part grew out of extensive preparatory investigations for a course he developed entitled “Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Iberia,” which serves both the Muslim Studies and Jewish Studies programs at Ithaca College.
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Gibson, Dr Lisanne
Dates: 23 August 2010 to 1 October 2010
Research Project: Museums and the politics of Urban Redevelopment
Lisanne Gibson is a lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She writes on a range of cultural policy issues including the history of museums, public art, cultural heritage, cultural value, cultural industries, and cultural development. She has published three books: Valuing Historic Environments (Ashgate, 2009, co-edited with JohnPendlebury); Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape, (University of Queensland Press, 2004, co-authored with Joanna Besley); and, The Uses of Art: Constructing Australian Identities (University of Queensland Press, 2001). Lisanne has also co-edited special journal issues on culture-led regeneration- International Journal of Cultural Policy (2004), and, on cultural industries and cultural development- Media International Australia (2004 and 2002). Lisanne is currently working on a monograph Museums and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment. The overarching argument of Lisanne’s work is that cultural management and funding must be clear-eyed about not only its economic or cultural effects but also its social and political effects. For further biographical information and a full publication list see http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/contactus/lisannegibson.html
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