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Prof Simon Cottle
Honorary Research Professor
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Simon will be an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Tasmania during the period 2006-2009.
Simon is Professor of Media and Communications and Director of the Mediatized Conflicts Research Group in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK and he is also a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Yale University. He was formerly Director and Inaugural Chair of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne (2002-2006). He has published eight books including, most recently, Mediatized Conflict: New Developments in Media and Conflict Studies (Open University Press, 2006), The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence: Media Performance and Public Transformation (Praeger, 2004), Media Organization and Production (Editor) (Sage 2003) and News, Public Relations and Power (Editor) (Sage 2003). He is currently writing Global Crisis Reporting (Open University Press, 2008) and Humanitarian Disasters and the Media (Peter Lang, 2009) and is Series Editor for a new collection of 10 books currently being commissioned under the Media and Global Crises series for the publisher Peter Lang.
Simon is the Chief Investigator of a major six-country research project, ‘Television Journalism and Deliberative Democracy: A Comparative International Study of Communicative Architecture and Democratic Deepening ' (DP0449505) funded by the Australian Research Council, a project that examines how major global issues – ecology, war on terror, migrations, human rights, trade flows – are shaped and publicly elaborated through the communicative architecture of television journalism. Simon's recent research also includes writings on the changing nature of mediated protests and demonstrations, mediatized rituals in contemporary society and the interactions between Aid NGOs and the news media – research interests that build on his earlier work in the sociology of journalism, news ethnography and the study of mediatized conflicts including: war, terror, environment/risk society, riots and urban unrest, race and racism, and demonstrations and protest.
Alternative Contact Details
Simon's contact details in Cardiff are:
The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Cardiff University
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3NB,
Wales, UK
Email: CottleS@cardiff.ac.uk
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Dr CA Cranston
Honorary Associate
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CA will be an Honorary Associate at the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during 2008.
Career Summary
CA was a Lecturer at UTAS from 1991-2007. She received an Australia-India Council Fellowship and was Visiting Professor at the University of Madras in 2008. During 2006 she was Visiting Professor at the Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; and a Visiting Professor at the Alps-Adriatic University, Klagenfurt, Austria in 2004. She has qualifications in literature and disability (the body and the text) and has taught British and USAmerican literature. Her current allied focus is in place-based literature within the framework of ecocriticism (ecology and literature). She edits the ASLE-ANZ newsletter.
Her publications include:
Books:
2007 The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers. Intro and co-edited with Robert Zeller, Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 319
2000 Along These Lines: From Trowenna to Tasmania. Cornford Press: Tasmania. A place-based anthology of writings about Tasmania.
Recent Articles and Chapters:
2008 ‘Wet, in the Mindscape of the Dry’ in Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations. Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volpp (eds). Wissenschaftliche Verlag Trier: Germany ISBN: 978-3-8-821-049-1
2008 ‘Literary Ecoconsciousness’ in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (eds.) New Delhi: SSS Publications.
2008 (Under consideration): ‘Go Calculate That: Sustainability be Blowed’. Special issue
2007 ‘Setting the Scene: Littoral and Critical Contexts’, with Robert Zeller, in The Littoral Zone. CA.Cranston and Robert Zeller (eds). pp. 7-29
2007 ’Islands’, in The Littoral Zone. CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller (eds). pp, 219-260
2007 ‘Water From the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch by Jean-Francoise Vernay’. Commissioned, JASAL, Vol.7, 116-121
Recent Academic Papers:
2008 April ‘Ecocriticism Down Under’. Public lecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
2008 April ‘Pre-Colonial Imaginings, Post-Colonial Footprints’. Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Tamil Nadu.
2008 July ‘From Shanty to Shanti: Teaching Australian Studies in Asia’, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), University of Wollongong
2008 Sept ‘Sustainable Communities: A Military Brat’s Perspective’, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-ANZ) symposium, RMIT, Victoria.
2007 June ‘Black Politics, Green Behaviour: the Legacy of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Dr Sylvia Martin
Honorary Associate
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Sylvia will be an Honorary Associate at the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during the period 2007-2008.
Career Summary
Sylvia's research interests include women involved in the Australian literary scene in the first half of the twentieth century and theoretical questions around the genres of auto/biography. Sylvia's recent book publications include Ida Leeson – A Life: Not a Blue-Stocking Lady (Allen & Unwin, 2006) and Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin (Onlywomen Press, 2001). Sylvia won the 2008 Magarey Prize for Biography for Ida Leeson: A Life. Not a Blue-Stocking Lady. The prize is awarded biennially and administered by ASAL and AHA.
Her current research focuses on Aileen Palmer, writer and political activist and daughter of writers Vance and Nettie Palmer, and she continues to write an auto/biographical manuscript that explores the boundaries between autobiography and biography and considers questions of identity and belonging.
Alternative contact details
sylviamartin@bigpond.com
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Prof Cassandra Pybus
Honorary Research Professor
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Cassandra will be an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Tasmania during the period 2007-2010.
Career Summary
Cassandra she has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. Her interests span as broadly as Australian social history, colonial history in North America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia, slavery and the history of labour, and the history of Tasmanian Aborigines. She has won numerous awards, most recently the Adelaide Festival Prize for Non Fiction in 2001 for her controversial book The Devil and James McAuley. Her most recent book publications include: Other Middle Passages, ed. (with Marcus Rediker and Emma Christopher), University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007, Epic journeys of freedom: Runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (Boston: The Beacon Press, 2006) and Black Founders: The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers (University of New South Wales Press, 2006).
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