Associate Professor Judith Keene

BA DipEd NE MA PhD University of California
Room 809 MacCallum Building

+61 2 9351 6790

Judith Keene is the Director of the European Studies Centre at The University of Sydney and a member of the Department of History. Her research and teaching interests are in twentieth century European cultural and political history with a particular interest in inter-war Europe and European cinema. She teaches senior and junior units of study on European history. In the last two years she has taught courses on Fascism and Anti-Fascism; the Spanish Civil War and European Film and History. She also co-ordinates a core course in the Master of European Studies.

• Twentieth century European cultural and political history
• Inter-war Europe
• European cinema

Assoc Professor Keene is completing a study ( funded by the Australian Research Council from 2001 to 2004) on the Englishman John Amery executed as a traitor in London at the end of the Second World War for broadcasting for the Axis, and on his contemporaries, Charles Cousens and Iva Toguri, tried respectively in Sydney and San Francisco for broadcasting over Radio Tokyo during the Pacific War. For preliminary work on the Amerys see the special issue of History Australia (July 2004) dealing with Ornamentalism.

Judith Keene also has a research project on the foreign diplomatic corps in Madrid during World War Two (funded by a University of Sydney Sesqui-Centenary Research and Development Grant). For preliminary work on this subject see Estudios de Historia Iberoamericana II, (2004).

Among Judith Keene's recent publications are Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War (Continuum, 2001) and in Spanish, Luchando por Franco: Voluntarios europeos al servicio de la España fascista, 1936-1939 (Salvat, 2002); on the enfranchisement of Spanish women in Australian Feminist Studies, 2002; on speaking and teaching Spanish in Australia in Spagna Contemporanea (Spring 2005); and on European cinema, Emir Kusturica and the narratives of Yugoslav history in Rethinking History (Summer 2001).

• HSTY2051 The Spanish Civil War

• Twentieth century European cultural and political history
• Inter-war Europe
• European cinema

Among her professional activities, Judith Keene is active in promoting European Studies in Australia. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association which is the professional organisation for historians in Australia. The AHA convenes a bi-ennial conference which in 2005 will be part of the International Congress of Historical Sciences, in Sydney from 3 to 10 July 2005. The AHA also publishes History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association.