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.