Prof Jeanette Hoorn
Professor, Art History and Screen Studies
Qualifications
MA (Calif. Berkeley) PhD (UniMelb)
Biography
Jeanette Hoorn teaches in the Screen Studies and Art History programs of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her research encompasses the history of the visual cultures of Australia and the Pacific region. Her specialisations include colonialism and race in Australian film and painting; pastoralism in Australian painting; contemporary Indigenous art; portraiture; gender and modernism; Darwinian theory in film and painting.
Her latest book is Australian Pastoral, the Making of a White Landscape, Fremantle Press, 2007. She has recently curated the acclaimed exhibition Strange Fruit: Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowling's Portraits, at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, July 14-October 14, 2007.
Teaching
- 107-085 Australian Cinema
- 107-269 The Musical: From Hollywood to Bollywood
- 107-429 Ethnographic and Documentary Cinema
- 107-542 The Director's Cut
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Current Research
- Hoorn J, and Creed, B, (Guest Curators), Darwinian Narratives in film and Painting (forthcoming exhibition, Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 2009. This exhibition will be part of the celebrations taking place all over the world to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin).
- 'Darwin's Cornucopia: Charles Darwin in Australia' (in print, Miegunyah Press, 2009).
- Two Ingénue in Tangiers: Hilda and Elsie Rix in Morocco, (Forthcoming, Melbourne University Press).
- Ongoing research and writing on Darwinian references in early colonial films and on the representation of civilising missions in European, British and Australian cinematic texts is underway.
Recent appointments
- 2008- Professor, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
- 2003-8 Associate Professor, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
- 2003-6 Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, EOWW, University of Melbourne
Recent grants and awards
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2007-2010, Film and the Civilising Mission, ARC Discovery Grant, 3 years $298,000.
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2007, Sex Gender and Human Rights, University of Melbourne Teaching Award, $30,000 for design of breadth subject.
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2006, Australian Pastoral, The Making of A White Landscape, Publication Grant, University of Melbourne, $6000.
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Hoorn, J. 'Strong Women Became Weak Under Its Influence': The Uses of Pituri in Charles Chauvel's film, Uncivilised (1936) e Community International Journal of Mental Heath &Addiction, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 40-45, 2005 Copyright - 2005 ISSN 1705-4583. Short-listed best essay, highly commended, Australian Film and History Association.
- 2003-2006, The Darwinian Screen, ARC Discovery Grant, 3 years, $198,000.
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2004, Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, ANU, May-June.
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2002, Fellowship, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, October-December.
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2000, Uncovering the art of Julie Dowling, Ellen Jose and Rachel Perkins, Small ARC grant $8000.
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1998-2001, Captivity Narratives and the Pacific 1770-1995, Large ARC Grant $68,000
Exhibitions
- Hoorn, J, (Guest Curator), Strange Fruit, Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowling's Portraits, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, July 24-Ocotber 14, 2007.
- Hoorn J, and Creed, B, (Guest Curators), Darwinian Narratives in film and Painting (forthcoming exhibition, Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 2009. This exhibition will be part of the celebrations taking place all over the world to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin).
Films
- Blood Brothers: Blood Sisters: The Films of Rachel Perkins, 2003, 50 min interview with Director Rachel Perkins held in National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
Publications
Books
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Hoorn, J. Australian Pastoral, the Making of a White Landscape, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2007 ISBN 9781920731540, ISBN 1920731547, 304p.
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Hoorn, J. Strange Fruit, Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowling's Portraits, Exhibition Catalogue, Potter Art Museum, University of Melbourne, July 2007 ISBN 0734037589, 48p.
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Hoorn, J. The Lycett Album. Aboriginal Life and Scenery, Australian National Library Press, Canberra 1990. ISBN 0642105073, 51p.
Edited Books
- Hoorn, J. and Creed, B. (eds.), Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge, New York, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001; Routledge ISBN 0415938422, Pluto Press ISBN 1864031840; University of Otago Press ISBN 187727612. 396p.
- Hoorn, J. and D. Goodman, (eds.) Vox Reipublicae, Feminism and the Australian Republic, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1996. ISBN 1863244. 183p.
- Hoorn, J. (ed.) Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1994. ISBN 0 522 84567, 200p.
Recent book chapters
- Hoorn, J. Joseph Lycett: Exposing the lie of terra nullius in Radical Revisionism, an anthology of writings on Australian Art', Rex Butler (ed.), IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2005. pp.127-131.
- Hoorn, J. 'Captivity, Melancholia and Diaspora in Marlon Fuentes: Revisiting Meet Me in St Louis' Bontoc Eulogy, in B Creed and J.Hoorn, eds Bodytrade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge, New York, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001, pp.195-207.
- Hoorn, J. (with Barbara Creed) 'Introduction', in B Creed and J.Hoorn, eds Bodytrade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge, New York, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001, pp.vii-xxii.
- Hoorn, J. 'Lyndell Brown and Charles Green', in Laura Murray Cree and Neville Drury (eds) Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000, pp.72-74.
- Hoorn, J. 'Hermannsburg', (eds.) Clark, J & Druce, F , Violet Teague 1872-1951 , Beagle Press, Sydney, 1999, pp.97-106.
- Hoorn, J. "Memory and History in the Art of Gordon Bennett" in Reinink and Stumpel, J. (Eds.)Memory and Oblivion XX1XTH International Congress of the History of Art, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands,1999, pp.1013-1019.
Recent articles
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Hoorn, J. 'Julie Dowling's Strange Fruit: Testimony and the Uncanny in Contemporary Australian Painting' Third Text, vol.19, Issue 3, May 2005, pp.283-296.
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Hoorn, J. 'Comedy and Eros in Michael Powell's They're A Weird Mob and Age of Consent', Screen, 46, 1, 2005, pp. 73-84.
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Hoorn, J. 'White Lubra/White Savage: Pituri and Colonialist Fantasy in Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised', Post Script, Volume 24, Nos. 2&3 Winter/Spring & Summer 2005. ISSN 02279897, pp.48-63.
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Hoorn, J. 'Strong Women Became Weak Under Its Influence': The Uses of Pituri in Charles Chauvel's film, Uncivilised (1936) e Community International Journal of Mental Heath & Addiction, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 40-45, 2005. ISSN 17054583.
- Hoorn, J. 'Julie Dowling's Melbin and the Captivity Narrative in Australia', Australian Cultural History, 2004, V.23, pp.201-212.
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Hoorn, J.'Michael Powell's They're A Weird Mob: Dissolving the 'Undigested Fragments' in the Australian Body Politic' Continuum, Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol, 17, no.2, 2003, pp.159-176.
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Hirst, D. Hoorn, J. and Creed, B. ' Teaching Australian Cinema On-Line: Charles Chauvel's Jedda', Ascilite, 2002, Winds of Change in the Sea of Learning: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Computers and Learning in Tertiary Education, 2002, Auckland, pp.815-18.
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Hoorn, J. Island Paradise: 'Identity and Community in the Art of Ellen Jose', Art and Australia, 39, 1 pp.104-112, 2001.
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Hoorn, J. 'Deep Water: The Particular Pleasure of the Art of Lyndal Jones', in Art and Australia, 38, 4,2001, pp.542-549, 2001.
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Hoorn, J. 'Olympian Bodies and Cinematic Spectacle in the Art of Norman Lindsay', Art and Australia, Vol.38, no.1 pp 118-127, 2000.
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Hoorn, J. 'Strange Displays: Jungle Movies, Captivity and the Department Store', Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1999, pp.33-37.
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Hoorn, J. 'Captivity and Humanist Art History: The Case of Poedua', Third Text, no.42, 1998, pp.14-21.