Faculty of Arts School of Culture & Communication

Professor Jeanette Hoorn

Professor of Visual Cultures

Qualifications

PhD (UniMelb) MA (Calif. Berkeley) BA Hons (UNSW)

Biography

Jeanette Hoorn teaches in the Cinema and Cultural Studies and in the 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, Orientalism and Australian art.

Her latest book is Australian Pastoral, the Making of a White Landscape, Fremantle Press, 2007. Short-listed best book, Australian and New Zealand Art History Association.

Current Research

Forthcoming

Hoorn J, Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia forthcoming exhibition, Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne August 14-November 4, 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).

Hoorn J (ed.) Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia (in press Miegunyah Imprint, Melbourne University Publishing, 2009).

Hoorn, J, Two Ingénue in Tangiers: Hilda and Elsie Rix in Morocco,  (Forthcoming, Melbourne University Press).

Ongoing research and writing on Darwinian influences in early colonial films and on the representation of mission civilicatrice in European, British and Australian cinematic texts is underway.

Recent appointments

2008- Professor of Visual Cultures, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

2007- Guest Curator Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Hoorn, J. Strange Fruit, Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowling's Portraits, Ian Potter Art Museum, University of Melbourne, July – September, 2007

2009- Guest curator, Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia (forthcoming), Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, August 14- November 4, 2009.

2008-9 Research Higher Degree Co-ordinator, Cinema and Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication.

Research Grants

2007-2010, Film and the Civilising Mission, ARC Discovery Grant, 3 years $298,000.

2007, Sex Gender and Human Rights, University of Melbourne Teaching Award, $30,000 for design of breadth subject.

2006, Australian Pastoral, The Making of A White Landscape, Publication Grant, University of Melbourne, $6000

Recent awards

Short-listed best book, Australian and New Zealand Art History Association Hoorn, J. Australian Pastoral, the Making of a White Landscape, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2007  ISBN 9781920731540, ISBN 1920731547, 304p.

Short-listed best essay, highly commended, Australian Film and History Association 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. * 2003-2006, The Darwinian Screen, ARC Discovery Grant, 3 years, $198,000.

Publications

Books

Hoorn, J. Australian Pastoral, the Making of a White Landscape, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2007  ISBN 9781920731540, ISBN 1920731547, 304p.

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.

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. ‘Letters from Tangiers: The Creative Partnership between Elsie and Hilda Rix’ in Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly (eds)The impact of the Modern, Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008, pp. 38-51.

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. "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

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.

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.

 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.

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.

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

Teaching

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