Emeritus Professor David Carter
Emeritus Professor

David Carter

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Background

Professor David Carter's research interests include Australian literature and publishing history, cultural history, the history of the book, magazines and periodical studies, middlebrow cultures, and studies in modernity.

Professor Carter was Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2006, then Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History in the School of Communication and Arts.

He is the author of Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, 1840s-1940s (2018) with Roger Osborne, Almost Always Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013), Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (2006) and A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997), winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award for literary scholarship. His edited books include the co-edited Fields, Capitals, Habitus: Australian Culture, Inequalities and Social Divisions (2020); Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing (2007) with Anne Galligan; The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life (2004); Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, with Tony Bennett (2001); and Outside the Book: Contemporary Essays on Literary Periodicals (1991).

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Series Editor, Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture, Anthem UK.

Professor Carter has extensive experience in teaching and developing programs in Australian Studies internationally. He was President of the International Australian Studies Association from 1997 to 2001; Manager of the Australian Studies in China program of the Australia-China Council (2002-16); a board member of the Australia-Japan Foundation (1998-2004); and Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Tokyo University (2007-08 & 2016-17). He is a Board Member of the Foundation for Australian Studies in China.

Availability

Emeritus Professor David Carter is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Literary studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Melbourne
  • Postgraduate Diploma, University of Melbourne
  • Masters (Coursework), University of Melbourne
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University
  • Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Research interests

  • Australian Literature

    Australian publishing history, 20th-century Australian literature, periodicals and book culture, Australian modernity

  • The history of the book

  • Publishing and print culture studies

  • Modernity

  • Immigration and multiculturalism

  • Australian Indigenous Cultures

Search Professor David Carter’s works on UQ eSpace

114 works between 1991 and 2021
All (114) Journal Article (43) Book Chapter (41) Conference Publication (3) Book (13) Other Outputs (7) Edited Outputs (7)

21 - 40 of 114 works

2014

Journal Article

'A peacock’s plume among a pile of geese feathers': Rosa Praed in the USA

Carter, David (2014). 'A peacock’s plume among a pile of geese feathers': Rosa Praed in the USA. Queensland Review, 21 (1), 23-38. doi: 10.1017/qre.2014.5

'A peacock’s plume among a pile of geese feathers': Rosa Praed in the USA

2013

Book Chapter

Culture and media

Carter, David and Griffen-Foley, Bridget (2013). Culture and media. The Commonwealth of Australia. (pp. 237-262) edited by Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CHO9781107445758.041

Culture and media

2013

Book Chapter

Drawing the line: Art in Australia and the contemporary modern

Carter, David (2013). Drawing the line: Art in Australia and the contemporary modern. Always almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity. (pp. 45-66) edited by David Carter. North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Drawing the line: Art in Australia and the contemporary modern

2013

Journal Article

Traduit de l'americain: Thomas Keneally and the mechanics of an international career

Carter, David (2013). Traduit de l'americain: Thomas Keneally and the mechanics of an international career. Book History, 16 (1), 364-386. doi: 10.1353/bh.2013.0013

Traduit de l'americain: Thomas Keneally and the mechanics of an international career

2013

Book

Always almost modern: Australian print cultures and modernity

Carter, David (2013). Always almost modern: Australian print cultures and modernity. North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Always almost modern: Australian print cultures and modernity

2013

Book Chapter

'Screamers In Bedlam': Vision 1923-1924

Carter, David (2013). 'Screamers In Bedlam': Vision 1923-1924. Always almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity. (pp. 81-111) edited by David Carter. North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

'Screamers In Bedlam': Vision 1923-1924

2013

Book Chapter

1982. Publishing in the Big Apple: Thomas Keneally's amazing American adventure

Carter, David (2013). 1982. Publishing in the Big Apple: Thomas Keneally's amazing American adventure. Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935-2012. (pp. 385-391) edited by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.

1982. Publishing in the Big Apple: Thomas Keneally's amazing American adventure

2013

Book Chapter

The wide brown land on the silver screen

Carter, David (2013). The wide brown land on the silver screen. Always almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity. (pp. 232-252) edited by David Carter. North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

The wide brown land on the silver screen

2013

Book Chapter

Antipodean romance, crime and sensation: Australian popular fiction in British and American markets 1890-1925

Carter, David (2013). Antipodean romance, crime and sensation: Australian popular fiction in British and American markets 1890-1925. Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature?. (pp. 86-100) edited by Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney. North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Antipodean romance, crime and sensation: Australian popular fiction in British and American markets 1890-1925

2012

Journal Article

The long Twentieth Century: an introduction

Carter, David and Garvey, Nathan (2012). The long Twentieth Century: an introduction. Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, 36 (4), 197-199.

The long Twentieth Century: an introduction

2012

Book Chapter

Waten, Judah Leon (1911-1985)

Carter, David (2012). Waten, Judah Leon (1911-1985). Australian dictionary of biography. Volume 18 : 1981-1990, L-Z. (pp. x-x) edited by Melanie Nolan and Paul Arthur. Carlton Australia: Melburne University Press.

Waten, Judah Leon (1911-1985)

2012

Book Chapter

Modernising anglocentrism: Desiderata and literary time

Carter, David (2012). Modernising anglocentrism: Desiderata and literary time. Republics of letters: literary communities in Australia. (pp. 85-98) edited by Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.

Modernising anglocentrism: Desiderata and literary time

2011

Book Chapter

Modernity and the gendering of middlebrow book culture in Australia

Carter, David (2011). Modernity and the gendering of middlebrow book culture in Australia. The masculine middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr. Miniver read. (pp. 135-149) edited by Kate Macdonald. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

Modernity and the gendering of middlebrow book culture in Australia

2010

Journal Article

Imagination: how people have imagined Queensland

Carter, David (2010). Imagination: how people have imagined Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-2010

Imagination: how people have imagined Queensland

2010

Book

Modern Australian criticism and theory: A critical guide

David Carter and Wang Guanglin eds. (2010). Modern Australian criticism and theory: A critical guide. Ying wen yuan ban wen xue li lun cong shu, 7., Qindao, China: China Ocean University Press.

Modern Australian criticism and theory: A critical guide

2010

Book Chapter

Transpacific or transatlantic traffic? Australian books and American publishers

Carter, David (2010). Transpacific or transatlantic traffic? Australian books and American publishers. Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories. (pp. 339-359) edited by Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press.

Transpacific or transatlantic traffic? Australian books and American publishers

2009

Journal Article

More than sorry: Indigenous policy under Howard and Rudd

Carter, David (2009). More than sorry: Indigenous policy under Howard and Rudd. オーストラリア研究, 22, 6-22.

More than sorry: Indigenous policy under Howard and Rudd

2009

Book Chapter

Critics, writers, intellectuals: Australian literature and its criticism

Carter, David (2009). Critics, writers, intellectuals: Australian literature and its criticism. Reading down under: Australian literary studies reader. (pp. 67-93) edited by Amit Sarwall and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi, India: Sports and Spiritual Science Publications.

Critics, writers, intellectuals: Australian literature and its criticism

2009

Book Chapter

Structures, networks, institutions: The new empiricism, book history and literary history

Carter, David (2009). Structures, networks, institutions: The new empiricism, book history and literary history. Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture. (pp. 31-52) edited by Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press.

Structures, networks, institutions: The new empiricism, book history and literary history

2009

Journal Article

Colonial modernity and print culture studies: Books and readers in Australian society

Carter, David (2009). Colonial modernity and print culture studies: Books and readers in Australian society. Pacific and American Studies, 9, 63-82.

Colonial modernity and print culture studies: Books and readers in Australian society

Past funding

  • 2016 - 2019
    Genre worlds: Australian popular fiction in the 21st century
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2014
    AustLit - Infrastucture Supporting Studies in Australian Cultural History
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2016
    Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics (ARC Discovery Project led by the University of Western Sydney)
    University of Western Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    The AustLit Resource: supporting research in studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Humanities in the digital age: infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2012
    Mapping World War One Digger Narratives: building a searchable, open access research foundation to support centenary related research outcomes on the literary history of World War One (2014) & the Gal
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - Austlit phase 4
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    eResearch Infrastructure for Humanities Scholars: facilitating literary and narratives studies; children's and popular fictions and film/TV studies
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    History of the Book in Australia: Reconceptualising the Regions: Queensland and Western Australia
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    AustLit Phase Three: Transforming the study of Australian Literature through a collaborative e-Research environment
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    AustLit Phase Two: Research infrastructure for humanities and education researchers
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    AusLit: Phase Two- humanities research infrastructure development, augmentation and expansion
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2009
    America Publishes Australia: Australian Books and American Publishers, 1890-2005
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2009
    Australian literary publishing and its economies, 1965-1995
    University of Western Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2009
    The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2007
    The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2006
    AustLit- humanities research infrastructure development through knowledge based data set building, augmentation of key research elements and ICT developments
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2009
    The Cultural Research Network
    ARC Research Networks
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2007
    Popular Cultures and Social Change: Case Studies from Rural Queensland
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2006
    The Making of the Australian Middlebrow: Nationalism Modernity and Middlebrow Culture in Australia
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2002 - 2003
    An Analysis of the Patterns of Consumption, Community Impacts and Returns on Investment of Rural Popular Cultural Activities
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant

Availability

Emeritus Professor David Carter is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Imagining Australia through Japanese translation: Cultural artefacts and the recreation of Australian literature

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Akiko Uchiyama

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Emeritus Professor David Carter directly for media enquiries about:

  • Australian culture
  • Australian film and TV
  • Australian history
  • Australian literature
  • Australian society
  • Multiculturalism

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