Dr Maggie MacKellar
PhD (University of Sydney), BA (Hons) (University of Sydney)
Lecturer
Room 813 MacCallum Building
+61 2 9351 2877
Dr Maggie MacKellar graduated from the University of Sydney in 2002. Her main research interests are women, the land and senses of place, particularly in the cross-cultural context of settler societies, Australia and Canada. Theoretically, she is informed by feminist scholarship and interdisciplinary analyses of the self, memory and representation. Dr MacKellar has been published in several distinguished journals. In 2004, University of Melbourne Press published her first book, Core of My Heart, My Country, which had been chosen to be part of the thesis to book scheme co-ordinated by Drusilla Modjeska. She currently teaches in Australian and cross-cultural comparative history and was an early and enthusiastic practictioner of the use of video technology to facilitate cross-institutional teaching in partnership with the University of North Carolina.
Research areas
- Environmental History
- Biography and Autobiography
- Histories of Place
- Rural history
- Women’s history
Current projects
- Women’s role in conservation moments in Australia and Canada
- Art and the Land: Roselie Gascoigne, Emily Carr, Hilda Rix Nicholas
Selected publications
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Core of My Heart My Country, Melbourne University Press, Carlton: 2004
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‘A ‘Wild Free Life’: Susan Allison in response to land and place on the frontier of British Columbia’ Women’s Writing, vol. 8, No. 3, 2001, pp401-418.
‘Looking Through the Fawnskin Window: white women’s sense of place in the New Worlds of Australia and Canada’ Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 33, no. 118, 2002, pp223-238.
“ ‘Jumping the Fence’: women horses and mobility on the frontiers of Australia and Canada” Australian Canadian Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2002, pp115-134.
Areas of teaching and research supervision
- Australian History
- Place
- Comparative Australian and American history
- Histories of the Environment