![Emeritus Professor David Carter](/sites/default/files/profiles/895.jpeg)
Overview
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
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
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Australian Literature
Australian publishing history, 20th-century Australian literature, periodicals and book culture, Australian modernity
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The history of the book
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Publishing and print culture studies
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Modernity
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Immigration and multiculturalism
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Australian Indigenous Cultures
Works
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1999
Conference Publication
Magazine culture: Notes towards a history of Australian periodical publication 1920-1970
Carter, David (1999). Magazine culture: Notes towards a history of Australian periodical publication 1920-1970. 21st Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Toowoomba Australia, 03-07 July 1998. Toowoomba, Qld Australia: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
1999
Journal Article
Good readers and good citizens: Literature, media and the nation
Carter, David (1999). Good readers and good citizens: Literature, media and the nation. Australian Literary Studies, 19 (2), 136-151.
1999
Journal Article
Looking for the History in Literary History
Carter, David (1999). Looking for the History in Literary History. Australian Literary Studies, 19 (2), 226-230.
1998
Book
Judah Waten: fiction, memoirs and criticism
David Carter ed. (1998). Judah Waten: fiction, memoirs and criticism. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
1998
Journal Article
Coleman's old cold war (The Soviet Union and Australian writers)
Carter, David (1998). Coleman's old cold war (The Soviet Union and Australian writers). Overland, 153, 4-7.
1997
Journal Article
Literary canons and literary institutions
Carter, David (1997). Literary canons and literary institutions. Southerly, 57 (3), 16-37.
1997
Book
A career in writing : Judah Waten and the cultural politics of a literary career
Carter, David (1997). A career in writing : Judah Waten and the cultural politics of a literary career. Toowoomba, Australia: Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
1996
Journal Article
Mother (excerpts from a biography of Judah Waten)
Carter, David (1996). Mother (excerpts from a biography of Judah Waten). Westerly, 41 (4), 114-122.
1996
Journal Article
Reviews
Carter, David (1996). Reviews. Australian Literary Studies, 17 (4), 407-411.
1994
Other Outputs
Gavin Casey, Frank Hardy, Alan Marshall
Carter, David (1994). Gavin Casey, Frank Hardy, Alan Marshall.
1993
Book
The republicanism debate
Wayne Hudson and David Carter eds. (1993). The republicanism debate. Sydney, NSW, Australia: New South Wales University Press.
1992
Book
Celebrating the nation: a critical study of Australia's bicentenary
Tony Bennett, Pat Buckridge, David Carter and Colin Mercer eds. (1992). Celebrating the nation: a critical study of Australia's bicentenary. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
1992
Book
Images of Australia
Gillian Whitlock and David Carter eds. (1992). Images of Australia. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
1991
Book
Outside the book : Contemporary essays on literary periodicals
David Carter ed. (1991). Outside the book : Contemporary essays on literary periodicals. Sydney, Australia: Local Consumption Publications.
Funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Imagining Australia through Japanese translation: Cultural artefacts and the recreation of Australian literature
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Akiko Uchiyama
Completed supervision
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Picture Book Diet: Representations of food and food practices in contemporary Australian picture books
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
"The Women, the Indomitable, the Undefeated": The Mammy, the Belle, and Southern Memory in William Faulkner
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Unlearning Othering: Asian Australian and Asian American Women's Fiction
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Australian press constructions of the 2002 Bali bombing: differing imaginings of the nation and its place in the world
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Jason Jacobs
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The New Australian Poets: Networks and the Generation of 68
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Bronwen Levy
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Tradition, creation and recognition in Australian and Aboriginal literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Principal Advisor
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2006
Master Philosophy
BONZA SCHOOLDAYS: AN ANNOTATED BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL STORIES
Principal Advisor
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2003
Master Philosophy
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN APPROACHES TO THE NOTION OF SPACE
Principal Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
White Russian diaspora from Harbin to Australia: constructing an identity; reconstructing history
Associate Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Reproducing Vietnam: Television and National Imagination in the Post-Reform Era
Associate Advisor
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Made in Suburbia: Intra-Suburban Narratives in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Creating a Scene: The Role of Artists' Groups in the Development of Brisbane's Art World 1940-1970
Associate Advisor
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2014
Master Philosophy
Reconciliation, Identity and Discourses of Futility: The Cultural Politics of Representing Indigenous Youth in Recent Australian Cinema
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Musicians and Aspiration: Exploring the Rock Dream in Independent Music
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
The Phar Lap Story: Representations of the Sporting Past
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gary Osmond, Professor Murray Phillips
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
A Magic Bag: The Power of Confectionery in the Lives of Australian Children
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Toni Johnson-Woods
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
The Storied Landscape: A Queensland Collection
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn, Dr Marion Stell
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
Contemporary Australian Political Satire: Newspaper Cartoonists as Public Intellectuals
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Localism in Australian Radio 1931 - 2007: from commercial radio to 'your' ABC
Associate Advisor
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2008
Master Philosophy
You should've been here yesterday: Tales from Surfing mythology
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
THE NINTEENTH CENTURY IN THE RECENT AUSTRALIAN IMAGINARY
Associate Advisor
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
LITERATURE AND CULTURAL POLICY STUDIES
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner
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2003
Doctor Philosophy
BIRTH OF A NOVELIST, DEATH OF A JOURNALIST
Associate Advisor
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2003
Master Philosophy
METAPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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Doctor Philosophy
HIGHJACKED AGENDA: THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA AND THE GALLERY OF THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS.
Associate Advisor
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