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Dr Robert Clarke
BA (UQ), BA (Hons., Psych., Flinders), MA (CQU), PhD (UQ), Grad Cert University Teaching and Learning (UTAS)
Lecturer in English
School of English, Journalism and European Languages

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Publications


Books

Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation and Power in (Post)Colonial Cultures.  Ed. Robert Clarke. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, In Preparation).

Contemporary Travel Writing and Australian Aboriginality. (In Preparation).

Book Chapters

“The Idea of Celebrity Colonialism.” Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation and Power in (Post)Colonial Cultures. Ed. Robert Clarke. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (In Preparation).

 “Reconciling Strangers: White Australian Travel Narratives and the Semiotics of Empathy.” Excursions: New Directions in Travel Writing Studies. Ed. Paul Smethurst and Julia Kuehn. New York: Routledge, 2009. 167-79.

“Distant Cousins and Ordinary Australians: Encounters with Aboriginality in the 1990s.”  Text, Travelling, Text.  Ed. Rimli Bhattacharya. New Dehli.  Department of English, University of Dehli, 2004. 115-34.

“Developing Cultural Citizens through Australia’s Young Artists Mentoring Program” in Global Perspectives on Mentoring:  Transforming Contexts, Communities, and Cultures.  Ed. Frances K. Kochan and Joseph T. Pascarelli.Greenwich:  Information Age Publishing, 2004.  (with Dr Mary Ann Hunter).  53-72.

“Australia’s Sublime Desert: John McDouall Stuart and Bruce Chatwin.” In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire.  Ed. Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 149-72.

Journal Articles

“Travel and Celebrity Culture.”  Postcolonial Studies 12.2 (2009): In Press.

“Star Traveller: Celebrity, Aboriginality, and Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines (1987).”  Postcolonial Studies 12.2 (2009): In Press.

“Digital Storytelling in Australia: Academic Perspectives” (With Dr Andrea Adam) (In review).

“An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and ‘Ordinary’ Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s.”. (In review)

 “‘New Age Trippers’: Aboriginality and New Age Australian Travel Books” Studies in Travel Writing, 13.1 (2009): 25-41.

“Intimate Strangers: Contemporary Australian Travel Writing, the Semiotics of Empathy, and the Therapeutics of Race.” Journal of Australian Studies 85 (2005): 69-81.

“Intimate Strangers: Contemporary Australian Travel Writing, the Semiotics of Empathy, and the Therapeutics of Race.” Crossings 9.3 (2004) http://www.inasa-home.net/

“Travel Writing and Globalization.” Writing Queensland, June (2001): 6-7.

“Globalization: Rupturing Totalized Analysis: Review of Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (eds).  The Cultures of Globalization.” Jouvert, 5 (3), 2001, http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v5i3/clarke.htm

Special Issues

“Travel and Celebrity Culture.”  Postcolonial Studies 12.2 (2009) (In Preparation).

Selected Reviews

“Rev. of Number Two Home: A Story of Japanese Pioneers in Australia by Noreen Jones.” JAS Review of Books Online 44 July 2006
            http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1863683682

 “Rev. of Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World ed. Judith Ryan and Chris-Wallace-Crabbe.” Australian Literary Studies 22.3 (2006): 391-93.

“Rev. of Xavier Pons (ed), Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself.” Journal of Australian Studies, 75, 2002. 154.

“Rev. of Prosthetic Gods: Travel. Representation and Colonial Governance by Robert Dixon.” M/C Review, 31 October 2001, http://reviews.media-ulture.org.au/article.php?sid=235

“A Sad Story of the Death of a King: Rev. of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Kind Richard II, Performed by Queensland Theatre Company.” M/C Review, 31 October 2001, http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=104

“Rev. of Ma Jian’s Red Dust: A Path Through China.M/C Review, 26 July 2001, http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=230

“Rev. of The Small Poppies.” M/C Review, 7 June 2001, http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=86

 “Globalization: Rupturing Totalized Analysis: Review of Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (eds).  The Cultures of Globalization.” Jouvert, 5 (3), 2001, http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v5i3/clarke.htm