Selected List of Publications

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Books

The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) by Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner. Coedited with Ralph Crane. Oxford World Classics Ser. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010.

Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to Friendly Mission. Co-edited with Mitchell Rolls. Hobart: Quintus, 2008. Listen to Ramona Koval's interview with Anna on ABC Radio National's The Book Show: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2009/2592798.htm

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-5218-2699-3

Gilbert, Helen, and Anna Johnston, eds. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

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Chapters in Books
“Settler Postcolonialism and Australian Literary Culture” (with Alan Lawson). Contemporary Australian Criticism and Theory. Ed. David Carter and Wang Guanglin. Literary Theory and Criticism in English Ser. Edinburgh University Press and China Ocean University Press. Forthcoming 2009 [5000 words].

 “Reading Friendly Mission in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction.” (with Mitchell Rolls). Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to Friendly Mission. Hobart: Quintus, 2008. 13-25.

“Flora Annie Steel in the Punjab.” (with Ralph Crane). Writing, Travel, and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology. Ed Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 70-95.

“The Bible Trade: Commerce and Christianity in the Pacific.” Economies of Representation 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce. Ed. Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 32-39.

“Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations.” Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007. 149-63.

“A Blister on the Imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia.”Colonial Lives across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. David Lambert and Alan Lester. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 58-87.

 “Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia.” Travel in the 1800s. Ed. Tim Youngs. London and New York: Anthem P, 2006.  201-18.

Gilbert, Helen, and Anna Johnston. Introduction. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. Ed. Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 1-20.

“‘Tahiti, “the desire of our eyes”’: Missionary Travel Narratives and Imperial Surveillance.” In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. Ed. Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 65-83.

“Antipodean Heathens: The London Missionary Society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-1850.” Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies. Ed. Lynette Russell. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester UP: 2001. 68-81.

Johnston, Anna, and Alan Lawson. “Settler Post-Colonialism.” A Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Massachusetts and Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 360-76.

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Articles in Journals
“George Augustus Robinson, the ‘Great Conciliator’: Colonial Celebrity and its Postcolonial Aftermath.” Fame and Power: Celebrity and the Cultures of (Post) Colonialism spec. issue of Postcolonial Studies 12.2 (2009): 153-72.

“The Strange Career of William Ellis.” South Pacific Forum. Victorian Studies 49.3 (Spring 2007): 491-501.

“British Missionary Publishing, Missionary Celebrity, and Empire.” Empire spec. issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose 32.2 (Fall 2005): 20-47.

“The ‘little empire of Wybalenna’: Becoming Colonial in Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 81 (July 2004): 17-31.

“Missionary Men: Forming Identities in Imperial Evangelical Britain.” Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 9 (2003): 89-105.

“The Bookeaters: Textuality, Modernity, and the London Missionary Society.” A Vanishing Mediator: The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism, a special issue of Semeia 88 (2001), ed. Roland Boer and Gerald West: 13-40.

“On the Importance of Bonnets: The London Missionary Society and the Politics of Dress in Nineteenth-Century Polynesia.” (un)fabric/ating empire, a special issue of New Literatures Review 36 (winter 2000), ed. Paul Sharrad: 114-27.

“Unbecoming Post-Colonial Narratives: Eric Michaels’ Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary.” Southern Review 32.1 (1999): 60-71.

“‘God being, not in the bush’: The Nundah Mission (Qld) and Colonialism.” Queensland Review 4.1 (1997): 71-80.

“Australian Autobiography and the Politics of Making Post-Colonial Space.” Westerly, no. 4 (1996): 73-80.