Dr Tony Hughes d'Aeth

Lecturer

Research Interests:

Comparative media studies, including new media theory, film and television studies

Cultural studies centred on textuality and mediation

Australian literature and culture, especially nineteenth-century literature and Australian film from 1970 to the present

Publications:

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth is the author of Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886-1888, Melbourne University Press, 2001, which received the Ernest Scott Prize for best work of Australian or New Zealand History and the Hancock Prize for best first work of Australian History.

He has also published the following essays and articles:

'Thematising the Global: Recent Australian Film', co-author Tanya Dalziell, PostScript 24.2 (2005) 112-124.
'Old Walls and New: The Australian Poet in the Asia-Pacific.' Chitra Sankaran, Leong Liew and Rajeev Patke, eds. Complicities. (Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2003) 65-76.
'History by Instalment: Australian Centenary and Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886-1888', in Julie Codell, ed., Divided Selves: The British Press and Imperial Co-Histories (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002) 219-241.
'Australian Writing, Deep Ecology and Julia Leigh's The Hunter', Journal of the Association for Studies in Australian Literature 1 (2002) 19-31.
'Which Rabbit Proof Fence? Empathy, Assimilation, Hollywood.' Australian Humanities Review (September-November 2002) http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2002/hughesdaeth.html
'Entangled Worlds: Australia and its Contexts in Recent Non-Fiction', Westerly 46 (November 2001) 17-32.
'A Prospect of Future Regularity: Spatial Technologies in Colonial Australia' in Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan, eds., Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry (Nedlands, WA: UWA Press, 1999) 47-58.
'Edges Movements Themes: The Future of Australian Literary Studies', Southerly, September 59.3&4 (September 1999) 37-42.
'Do You Want to Know More? Narrative in Australian Multimedia,' Journal of Australian Studies 63 (1999) 71-79.
'Legibility and Little Bourke Street in Cassell's Picturesque Australasia,' Beyond the Divide, 2.1 (Winter 1999) 26-37.
'Pretty as a Picture: Australia and the Imperial Picturesque,' Journal of Australian Studies 59 (1997) 99-107.