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Anne Maxwell

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

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Genetic engineering in literary science fiction
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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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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Thilly Weissenborn: Photographer of the Netherlands East Indies

Elizabeth Anne Maxwell

Journal article  |  2021  |  History of Photography

Thilly Weissenborn (1883–1964) was one of Indonesia’s first woman photogra- phers of significance. She was born in Java but school..

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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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Female Photographers: Elizabeth Pulman, Margaret White, Harriet Brims, May and Mina Moore, Rose Simmonds, Hedda Morris

Elizabeth Maxwell

Reference Work  |  2020

This formidable collective sum, illustrated by 450 images, presents the works of 300 women photographers from all over the world, ..

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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

Scholarly books about New Zealand literature generally attract only New Zealand readers, but this book is arguably relevant to sch..

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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

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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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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Communication
Criminology
Grains and Seeds
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
Literary Studies
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Sociology
Other Chemical Sciences
Other Culture and Society

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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