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Elizabeth Maxwell

Professor
Culture and Communication
Photography & visual objects
arts & humanities
art
social sciences
history
literature
literary studies
women photographers
photography
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Elizabeth Maxwell

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Genetic engineering in literary science fiction
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Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Elizabeth Maxwell.

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'The Complete Craze': Women's Photography and Colonial Modernity in the Asia-Pacific, 1860-1930

To date there has been no sustained research into the photography produced by women in the Asia-Pacific region in the late colonial era even..

2014 - 2020
Completed
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Photography & eugenics: an historical investigation of photography's role in the development & popularisation of the eugenics movement

This project analyses the uses of racial type photographs by the eugenics movement. Photography was used as a scientific tool by eugenicists..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Elizabeth Maxwell.

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My Salinger Year, hope and optimism win out

Anne Maxwell

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

(https://theconversation.com/film-review-in-my-salinger-year-hope-and-optimism-win-out-152087) Film review: in My Salinger Year, h..

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Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857-1930

Anne Maxwell

Book  |  2020

This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific..

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Australian Photography and Transnationalism

Elizabeth Anne Maxwell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal For the Study of Ausltalian Literature JASAL

Until very recently, histories of Australian photography have remained primarily (and some would say stubbornly) nation-based, but..

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The many urgent Voices of women writers from Africa

Elizabeth Anne Maxwell

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Age

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The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World

Anne Maxwell

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Journal of New Zealand Studies

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Review of Helen Bones The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World

E Maxwell

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Journal of New Zealand Studies

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Review of Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East by Ali Behdad

E Maxwell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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How the moral lessons of To Kill a Mockingbird endure today

E Maxwell, Elizabeth Maxwell

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

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Mina Moore’s photographic portrait of Nellie Stewart

E Maxwell

Journal article  |  2018  |  National Gallery Victoria Art Journal Edition

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Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman: Photography in Three Australian Novels

L Van, A Maxwell

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Australian Studies

This article traces the practices of photography that have been portrayed in three Australian artists’ novels: Patrick White’s The..

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Keyword Analysis

Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Literary Studies
Art Theory and Criticism
Cultural Studies
Historical Studies
Other Studies in Human Society
Literature Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Other Cultural Understanding

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Culture and Communication

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts

University of Auckland

Bachelor of Arts

University of Auckland

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