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Email

colemand@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Robert Wallace Chair of English
School of Culture and Communication
Education
Doctorate (Research)
University of Oxford
Bachelors Degree
University of Oxford
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-4076-2136

Prof Deirdre Coleman

Robert Wallace Chair of English
School of Culture and Communication

81 Scholarly works
13 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Pleasure and Pain in the Pacific
    DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2025.2500500
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific
  • 2024

    Book

    Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Vol 1
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003549963
  • 2024

    Book

    Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Vol 5
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003549604
  • 2024

    Book

    Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Vol 3
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003549598
  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Slavery, Sugar, Race: Australian South Sea Islander Labourers
  • 2017

    Research Grant

    Reconstructing Museum Specimen Data Through the Pathways of Global Commerce
Deirdre Coleman

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2021
University of Melbourne
2018
Barbara Creed Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Supervision, 2017 University of Melbourne
2007
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
2001
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision University of Sydney

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Book

    Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Vol 4
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003550402
  • 2024

    Book

    Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Vol 6
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003551195
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Voyaging in the Pacific
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198834540.013.4
  • 2024

    Journal article

    “Embronzed with the African Tint”: Racial Color-coding and Intergenerational Inheritance in Jamaica, St. Domingo and England in the Age of Abolition
    DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2024.2307136
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Robert Louis Stevenson and German Sāmoa
    DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2024.2331327
  • 2023

    Journal article

    [Review of the book Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Matthew Wale]

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2019

    Internal Research Grant

    George Lyell Collection - McCoy Seed Fund - Prof Deirdre Coleman
  • 2014

    Research Grant

    Romantic India and Indian Romantics: British Romanticism and Colonial Modernity in India, 1780-1840.

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