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Prof

Deirdre Coleman

Robert Wallace Chair Of English
Culture and Communication
arts & humanities
literature
literary theory & criticism
social sciences
poetry
humanities, multidisciplinary
arts & humanities - other topics
henry smeathman
slavery
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects from 11 for Deirdre Coleman.

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RECONSTRUCTING MUSEUM SPECIMEN DATA THROUGH THE PATHWAYS OF GLOBAL COMMERCE

This project aims to reconnect zoological specimens with vital collection data. From 1758-1900 millions of specimens were commercially trade..

2017 - 2021
Completed
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GEORGE LYELL COLLECTION - MCCOY SEED FUND - PROF DEIRDRE COLEMAN

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Romantic India and Indian Romantics: British Romanticism and colonial modernity in India, 1780-1840.

This project turns to British Romanticism and to Anglophone texts of early-19th century Bengal to arrive at a deeper understanding of the co..

2014 - 2019
Completed
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Human Kind: Transforming Identity in Australian and British Portraits 1700-1900 in the National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria's outstanding collection of Australian and British portraits, spanning the Enlightenment and the dawn of Fe..

2013 - 2017
Completed
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Human Kind: Transforming Identity in Australian and British Portraits 1700-1900 in the National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria's outstanding collection of Australian and British portraits, spanning the Enlightenment and the dawn of Fe..

2013 - 2017
Completed
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"Empathy and Evolution: The History of Emotions and the Literary and Visual Representation of Animals"

A study of emotions in human and animals is a key area of contemporary research in both the sciences and humanities. It has crucial implicat..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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Romantic India and Indian Romantics

2013 - 2014
Completed
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MINDS, BODIES, MACHINES: A CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This project benefits the intellectual and cultural life of the nation by establishing a unique dialogue between the I.T. community and Univ..

2007 - 2011
Completed
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MINDS, BODIES, MACHINES: A CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This project benefits the intellectual and cultural life of the nation by establishing a unique dialogue between the I.T. community and Univ..

2007 - 2011
Completed
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SEEING CHANGE: SCIENCE, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANTIPODES FROM THE AGE OF DARWIN - A MULTI-MEDIA RESEARCH COLLABORATION

To build a collaboration across the humanities, natural sciences, business technology and public culture sectors that will use new forms of ..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

1

Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 58 for Deirdre Coleman.

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The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750-1834

Trevor Burnard, Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2021  |  ATLANTIC STUDIES-GLOBAL CURRENTS

In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Afri..

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Unlocking the secrets of a colossal collection

Deirdre Coleman, Nik McGrath, Simon Hinkley

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

A team at Museums Victoria investigates a fascinating collection of almost 12,000 butterflies and 40,000 moths, donated to the mus..

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JoEllen DeLucia and Juliet Shields, eds., Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2020  |  BARS Bulletin and Review

Review by Deirdre Coleman (University of Melbourne) of JoEllen DeLucia and Juliet Shields, eds., Migration and Modernities: The St..

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Anti-Slavery, African colonization, and the natural history of ballooning

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2019  |  Romanticism

Henry Smeathman (1742-86) was a self-taught naturalist who collected naturalia in West Africa and the West Indies for wealthy Lond..

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Antislavery Satire before Abolitionism: Two New Images

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2018  |  Wordsworth Circle

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Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the late Eighteenth Century

D Coleman

Book  |  2018

In this book, which draws on a rich and little-known archive of journals and letters, Coleman retraces Smeathman's life as he shut..

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British and Australian portraits at the National Gallery of Victoria

A Inglis, Deirdre Coleman, Vivian Gaston

Journal article  |  2018  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Eighteenth-century West African insects in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney

Deirdre Coleman, Robert Blackburn

Journal article  |  2017  |  ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY

Henry Smeathman (1742-1786), best known for his essay on the west African termites, travelled to Sierra Leone in 1771 to collect n..

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Alfred Deakin's 'Austral-Asia' and the Making of 'History for the Future'

Deirdre Coleman, Sashi Nair

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

In 1893 Alfred Deakin coined the term ‘Austral-Asia’ and argued, in Irrigated India and Temple and Tomb in India, that India and i..

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Book Review: An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750–1850

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2016  |  European Romantic Review

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Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Communication
Understanding Past Societies
Historical Studies
Cultural Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Arts
Evolutionary Biology
Gender Studies

News

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Other awful years in history

Deirdre Coleman, Hayden Dalton, Catherine Kovesi, Frederik Vervaet

Around the world, people can’t wait for 2020 to end. COVID-19 has killed close to a million people globally over the course of the pandemic...

September 18, 2020
pursuit Article
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A bittersweet history

Trevor Burnard, Deirdre Coleman

No single thing is more closely associated with feelings of pleasure and celebration than sugar. Imagine a birthday party without a cake, or..

August 8, 2019
pursuit Article
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The film, Mary Shelley, shows Frankenstein is always a story for our times

Deirdre Coleman

Elle Fanning as the author Mary Shelley. IMDBThe lives of young Romantic artists continue to fascinate filmmakers, from Ken Russell’s Gothi..

July 3, 2018
conversation Article
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Taking on modern slavery and the challenge of making it history

Deirdre Coleman

In the late 18th century, a small band of British Quakers and other humanitarian-minded folk began to build the case against the slave trade..

March 25, 2014
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2001

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision

University of Sydney
2007

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Robert Wallace Chair Of English

Culture and Communication

Council Member

Australian Academy of the Humanities

Vice-President

Romantic Studies Association of Australasia

Member

Marsden Fund (Humanities Panel), Royal Society of New Zealand

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy

University of Oxford

Bachelor of Philosophy

University of Oxford

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

University of Melbourne

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