Dr Anne Maxwell
Senior Lecturer, English
Qualifications
BA, MA (Auckland), PhD (Melbourne)
Biography
Anne Maxwell gained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English and Art History from the University of Auckland. She has a Doctorate from the University of Melbourne. She teaches Colonial and Postcolonial literature, Modern literature and American literature.
Current research projects
- Literature and Citizenship in Australia and New Zealand, 1880 to 1918.
- Racial Futures: A study of Eugenics and Genetic Engineering in Literature.
- Colonial Photography in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
Knowledge transfer
- Member of the Book Publications Committee of the Melbourne based Postcolonial Institute.
- Member of the Council of the Melbourne based Postcolonial Institute.
Recent research papers delivered at conferences and seminars
- ‘The “Colonial Gothic”: a comparison of Australian and New Zealand fiction of the 1890s.’ Paper delivered at “Flogging a Dead Horse: Are National Literatures Dead? Conference,’ Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. Dec 11-13, 2008.
- ‘Photography and Travel: Blanche Baughan’s “Uncanny Country.” Paper delivered at “The New Zealand Photography Symposium”, University of Otago, Dec 2007,
- ‘Postcolonial Criticism and Climate Change: A Tale of Melbourne Under Water in 2030.’ Guest Lecture at Massey University, Albany campus, September 17, 2007.
- ‘Moko Mokai (Shrunken, Baked, Maori heads) and Imperialist Discourse.’ Paper delivered at the “Imperial Curiosity: Objects, Representations, Knowledges Conference,” University of Tasmania, Hobart 27-29 June 2007.
- ‘Eco-postcolonialism: Global Warming, Environmentalism and Literature.’ Paper delivered at the “Postcolonial Politics Conference,” University of Otago, 2006.
- ‘A future human Beauty: Philip K Dick’s “The Golden Man” and Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis”, ’ Paper delivered at the “Imagining the Future: Dystopia and Science Fiction Conference,” Monash University, December 7-8, 2006.
- ‘Encountering the Cultural Other: Virginia Woolf in Constantinople and in Katherine Mansfield in the Ureweras.’ Paper delivered at New Zealand House, London, July 2nd 2004.
- ‘Perfecting the Race: The Eugenic Ideas Behind Francis Galton's Composite Photographs.’ Guest Lecture at Massey University, Auckland Campus, Cultural Studies Program, 2004.
Teaching
- 106-102 Modern Literature
- 106-033 Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
- 106-458 Post Colonial Writing and Theory
- 106-459 The 'Black' Presence in American Literature
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Publications
Monographs
- Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics 1870-1940, (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008). [314 pp, 120 illustrations]
- Colonial Photography and Exhibitions, (London: Leicester University Press, 1999-2000). [219 pp, 55 illustrations]
- Maoriland Stories, by Alfred A. Grace (new edition originally published 1895) edited with introductory essay by Anne Maxwell (Wellington: Ngaio Press, 2008).
Articles and essays in refereed journals
- ‘Oceana Revisited: J.A. Froude's 1884 Journey to New Zealand and the Pink and White Terraces,’ Victorian Literature and Culture vol 36.1, 2009.
- ‘Postcolonial Criticism, Eco Criticism and Climate Change: A Tale of Melbourne Underwater in 2035,’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol 45, No 1. March 2009: 15-26.
- ‘Eugenics and the classical ideal of Beauty in Philip K. Dick's “The Golden Man,”’ Science Fiction Studies (March, Vol 36, 2009).
- ‘Postcolonual Literary Criticism and Global Warming,’ Sites 44, new series Vol 5.1 2008.
- ‘Encountering the Cultural Other: Virginia Woolf in Constantinople and in Katherine Mansfield in the Ureweras,’ Ariel (April-June, 2007).
- ‘A Young Writer's Journey into the new Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera Notebook,’ in Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Tim Young (London: Anthem Press, 2006).
- ‘Reconstructing Aboriginal/White Relations on the Colonial Frontier: the Racial Type Photographs of Paul Foelsch,’ in Australia Who Cares? ed. David Callahan, (Perth: API Network, 2007).
- ‘Photographs of Racial Types: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Challenge to American Society,’ in Katherine Ellinghaus, David Goodman and Glenn Moore, (eds.), Unsettling America: Crisis and Belonging in United States History (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004).
- ‘Montrez L'Autre: Franz Boas et Les Soeurs Gerhard,’ Zoos Humain, eds. N. Bancel, P. Blanchard, G.Boetsch, E. Deroo and S. Lemaire (Paris, Ed. La D'ecouverte, 2002):116-127.
- ‘In the Shadow of Imperialism: Photography and the Colonised Body in Australia and New Zealand,’ Art New Zealand, (February, 2001).
- ‘Melancholy in Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World,’ Journal of Australian Studies (Summer, 2000):114-52.
- ‘The Spectacle of the Colonized Body,’ The Body in the Library, Proceedings of the Body in the Library Conference, University of Queensland July 12-13, 1994, eds. Simon Ryan and Leigh Dale (Amsterdam: Rudolphi, 1998): 117-35.
- ‘Ethnicity and Difference: Biculturalism and New Zealand Education Policy,’ Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity, ed. David Bennett (London: Routledge, 1998): 195-207.
- ‘Theorising Settler Identities: Images of Racial and Cultural Difference in Colonial Exhibitions and Photographic Tourism,’ Asian and Pacific Inscriptions, ed. Suvendrini Perera. Special issue in book form of Meridian (October, 1995): 193-211.
- ‘History in the New Zealand Novel and Film Today,’ Opening the Book, ed. Mark Williams and Michele Leggott (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995) 232-48.
- ‘Fallen Queens and Phantom Diadems,’ Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 38.3 (Fall, 1997): 247-58. Special issue on Gender and the Pacific.
- ‘Revisionist Histories and Settler Colonial Societies,’ Southern Review, 20.1 (Summer, 1994): 383-402.
- ‘Rewriting the Nation,’ Meanjin, 53.2 (Winter, 1994): 315-26.
- ‘Remaking Histories and Identities: Negotiating the Subjects of Postcolonial Nationalism and Postmodern Theory,’ Literature and History, 3.1 (Spring, 1994): 64-82.
- ‘Native Women and Tourism: The Contested Site of Orientalism,’ Third Text, 25 (Winter, 1993-94): 21-32.
- ‘The Debate on Current Theories of Colonial Discourse,’ Kunapipi, 13.3 (1992): 70-84.
- ‘From Cannibalism to Biculturalism,’ Arena, 96 (1991): 89-104.
- ‘Reading The Bone People: Toward a Literary Postcolonial Nationalist Discourse,’ Antithesis, 1.1 (1987): 63-92. reprinted in Antic, 3 (November, 1987) 23-45.
- ‘Poststructuralist and Feminist Literary Theories: The Problematic Relation,’ Antic 1 (June, 1986): 59-72.
- ‘Feminist Film Theory,’ with Susan Davis, Alternative Cinema (Summer, 1983-84): 18-20.
Recent book reviews
- ‘Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand,’ ed. Laurence Simmons, Auckland University Press, 2007; and ‘Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual,’ ed. by Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly Melbourne University Press, 2007. Long Review article, Australian Humanities Review, April, 2008.
- ‘Review of Terry Collitts’ “Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire,’ Thesis Eleven, June, 2006.
- ‘Review of Jane Lyman’s “Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians,” Australian Historical Studies, vol 37, no. 128 (April, 2006).
- ‘Review of “A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-unification to the present,” ed. Patrizia Palumbo,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 28.4 (July, 2005).
- ‘Review of “Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination”,’eds. James Ryan and Joan M. Schwartz, Cultural Geographies, vol. 11.1 (Jan, 2004).