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Email

benbow@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-5505-7464

Prof Heather Benbow

Professor
School of Languages and Linguistics

58 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Honours programmes in languages
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003742821-14
  • 2026

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Queering Captivity: German Amateur Actors in an Australian Internment Camp
  • 2024

    Journal article

    'Kulturkrieg' behind barbed wire: German theatre in an Australian first-world-war internment camp
    DOI: 10.1111/glal.12407
  • 2023

    Journal article

    “Every historical event has many truths”: Australian Students of German Staging German History”
    DOI: 10.48694/zif.3391
  • 2022

    Book Chapter

    Secrets, Lies and Criminality in Australia’s »German Concentration Camp«
    DOI: 10.5771/9783968219073-211
  • 2022

    Book Chapter

    A Scholar of Secrecy
    DOI: 10.5771/9783968219073-9
  • 2018

    Internal Research Grant

    Research Tools for Understanding the Role of Food in War Time
Heather Benbow

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Book

    Geheimnisse - Secrets Festschrift Für Alison Lewis
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Beyond bully beef: soldiers, food and transcultural interactions in World War I
    DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2021.1884438
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Hunger: how food shaped the course of the First World War
    DOI: 10.1080/19475020.2021.1957418
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Languages at Work: Defining the Place of Work-Integrated Learning in Language Studies
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50925-5_12
  • 2019

    Book Chapter

    5: Transnational Turkish German Travelogues: Turkish German Women Writers’ Millennial Travel Narratives
    DOI: 10.1515/9781787445116-007

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2018

    Internal Research Grant

    Dyason Application: Breaking Bread: German Experiences of Food and War in Transnational Context

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