Dr Jonathan Walker
PhD (Cambridge), MA (Glasgow)
International Research Fellow
Room J409, Quadrangle Building
jonathan.walker@arts.usyd.edu.au
+61 2 9351 6830
Research areas
- Spies and diplomats in early seventeenth-century Venice
- noble crime and criminal law in early modern Venice
- historical fiction (novels and films)
- photography and history
- modernization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Venice.
Current projects
I recently finished a book on the theme of the spy as storyteller in early seventeenth-century Venice. It is entitled Pistols! Treason! Murder! and will be published in early 2007. I am about to finish an extended photo-essay about modernization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Venice, entitled ‘Let Us Burn the Gondolas’: Venice as a Modern City. After that, I shall be working on an experimental project in collaboration with an illustrator, the results of which will be presented in comic strip form.
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Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007.
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‘Gambling and Venetian Noblemen, c. 1500-1700’, Past and Present, 162 (1999), 28-69.
‘Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies’, Rethinking History, 5.2 (2001), 305-34; and now republished in R. Rosenstone and A. Munslow (eds), Experiments in Rethinking History, London 2004.
‘James Ellroy as Historical Novelist’, History Workshop Journal, 53 (2002), 181-204.
‘Political and Legal Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Venice’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44 (2002), 800-26.
(With Filippo de Vivo and James Shaw), 'A Dialogue on Spying in 17th Century Venice', Rethinking History, 10.3 (2006), 323-344.
'Let's Get Lost: On the Importance of Intineraries, Detours and Dead-Ends', Rethinking History, 10.4 (2006), 573-597.
'An Interview with A.S. Byatt and Lawrence Norfolk', Contemporary Literature, 47.3 (2006), 319-342.
I recently attended the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in Cambridge. In 2007 I will be speaking at the ANZMEMS conference in Adelaide and at a conference on 'Re-Enactment and the Arts' at ANU.
Other Professional Contributions
I am on the editorial board of the journal Rethinking History
From February to April 2007, I shall be at ANU as a Visiting Fellow.
See the web site http://www.jonathanwalkervenice.com
