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Areas of Research Gender, feminism, and modernity; modernism; biography; history and sociology of the culture of social science; American and Australian societies and cultures in comparative perspective; history of film, theatre and intellectual journalism, transnational history and biography, history of the voice. |
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Judith Anderson 1897-1992: Voice and Emotion in the Making of an International Star
Australian-born actor Judith Anderson was renowned for her 'thrilling' voice and portrayal of 'deep' emotion and illicit sexuality and power. This new biographical project, which is funded by the ARC, uses Anderson's transnational life in Australia, the United States and Great Britain to explore three important but neglected themes in the history of gender and modernity: the role of the speaking voice in the development of a new, international, sensory culture; the development of modern emotional repertoires; and the inter-related roles of theatre and film as carriers of these new ideas and practices across borders, creating a 'global sensory vernacular' in which voice as well as vision played an important part.
She is also editing, with Professor Joy Damousi of Melbourne University a volume on Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound (ANU E-Press forthcoming); and with Professor Angela Woollacott, Macquarie University and Associate Professor Penny Russell, University of Sydney, Transnational Lives (under review Duke University Press) and Looking Out: Australian Lives in the World (under review ANU E-Press).
Major Publications Forthcoming "Becoming Cosmpolitan: Judith Anderson in Sydney, Australia, 1913-1918" in Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott, eds, Transnational Lives: Biography Across Boundaries (under review Duke University Press). "World English? How an Australian Invented 'Good American Speech'" in Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon eds, Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU E-Press. Mary McCarthy: Four Husbands, A Lover, and A Friend: Stories of Love and Loss in Twentieth-Century America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2007 - "An Affair to Remember: Mary McCarthy and Philip Rahv", Meanjin, Vol.66, No.1, March 2007. 2006 - "Cosmopolitans at Home: The International Aspirations of JC Williamson Stock Company Members 1897-1918". Refereed conference paper, Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers International Conference, University of Queensland, December 2006. 2006 - "'Films as Foreign Offices': Transnationalism at Paramount in the Twenties and Early Thirties". In Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake. Canberra: ANU E Press, 129-146. 2004 - "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment: The Marriage of Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson". Australian Feminist Studies, March 2004. 103-115. 1998 - "Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Elsie Clews Parsons". Gender and American Social Science. Helene Silverberg ed. Princeton University Press. 1997 - Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life. University of Chicago Press. 1997 - "Elsie Clews Parsons and Me." Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement. Barbara Laslett & Barrie Thorne eds. Rutgers University Press. 1996 - "Political Arithmetic: The Nineteenth Century Census and the Construction of the Dependent Woman". Gender and Scientific Authority. Barbara Laslett et al eds. University of Chicago Press. 1989 - "Politicizing Gender." Genders 6 (Fall): 1-19.
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