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Email

peterjo@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
School of Culture and Communication
Education
PhD
Adelaide University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Adelaide University
ORCID

0000-0002-1037-3850

Prof Peter Otto

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
School of Culture and Communication

108 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Research grants (other domestic)

    BigRep ONE.5X Dual Mode
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    William Blake and 'Allegory addressd to the Intellectual powers': Swedenborgian correspondence, Romantic symbolism, and the metamorphoses of allegory
  • 2026

    Book

    Varieties of Creativity, Imagination and Wellbeing in Australia
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Romanticism, Capitalism, Wellbeing, & the Long Age of Imagination
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15062097
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Catastrophe, sublimity, and digital thinking in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47436-1_9
  • 2022

    Book Chapter

    Romanticism, ‘Real’ Illusions and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity
  • 2018

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Architectures of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, and Worlds
Peter Otto

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
University of Melbourne
2004
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    'Minus Plus' and The Art Project, 1975–1980
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15062039
  • 2022

    Conference Proceedings

    Documentary as Witness, Varieties of Imagination and Wellbeing
  • 2022

    Presentation

    Varieties of Imagination, Creativity and Wellbeing
  • 2022

    Book

    Reading the Vegetarian Vampire
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18350-8
  • 2021

    Book Chapter

    “Second Birth” and gothic fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s “Agnes, " and William Blake’s Vala, or the four zoas

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2012

    Research Grant

    William Blake in the 21st Century: Poetry, Prophecy, the History of Imagination, and the Futures of Romanticism
  • 2008

    Research Grant

    Gothic Fiction and Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity
  • Research Grant

    Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, & the Emergence of Virtual Reality

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