Prof. Robert Dixon

BA (Hons), PhD (Sydney), FAHA
Professor of Australian Literature

+61 2 9036 9231

Robert Dixon is a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Books

The Course of Empire: Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales 1788-1860 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001).

Editor of:

Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008, co-edited with Veronica Kelly)

CanonOZities: the Making of Literary Reputations in Australia. Published as a special issue of Southerly 57.3 (Spring 1997, with Delys Bird and Susan Lever).

Australian Literature and the Public Sphere (Canberra: ASAL, 1998, with Alison Bartlett and Christopher Lee).

Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001, with Delys Bird and Christopher Lee).

Research Interests

  • colonialism and its culture
  • Australian literature and literary criticism
  • Australian cultural studies
  • postcolonial studies
  • Australian art history.

Current Research

An illustrated edition of Frank Hurley's diaries, and the book Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley and Colonial Modernity, both to be published by Melbourne University Press in 2008.

Research Group

Nineteenth-Century Studies