Associate Professor Judith Keene
BA DipEd NE MA PhD University of California
Room 809 MacCallum Building
+61 2 9351 6790
My research and teaching areas are in twentieth century history with a particular interest in the social and cultural history of war and in the history of extreme right movements. As well I write about and teach European cinema.
Research areas
- War and peace in the twentieth century
- Spanish civil war
- Prisoners of war
- Bodies and warfare
- European movements of the Extreme Right
- European cinema
Current projects
I have recently completed a study (funded by the Australian Research Council from 2001 to 2004) on traitors in World War Two. It includes the Englishman John Amery executed in London at the end of the Second World War for broadcasting for the Axis, and his contemporaries, Charles Cousens and Iva Toguri, tried respectively in Sydney and San Francisco for broadcasting over Radio Tokyo during the Pacific War. Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II, was published by Praeger and shortlisted for the 2009 New South Wales Premier's Prize in General History.
Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski and I were invited to be the Australian contributors to an international study funded by the French Ministry of Defence on war and veterans' memory that was led by Olivier Wiervoka and Antoine Prost, from University of Paris 1 and ENS Cachan, respectively. It drew on scholars from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Australia. "La mémoire combattante, un regard international", Centre d'études en sciences socials de la défense (C2SD) Ministère de la Défense, appeared in September 2009.
Professor Peter Read and I, in late 2008, ran a symposium, "Where Are the Bodies", some of the papers from which will appear in 2010 in a special issue of Public History entitled "Where Are The Bodies? A Transnational Examination of State Violence and Its Consequences". The collection has been edited by Peter Read, Professor Heather Goodall and myself.
With a group of film scholars in Victoria, led by Dr Mark Nicholls at Melbourne University, I am working on a project on Cold War cinema. My research contribution covers early franquista cinema in Spain and 1950s Hollywood on the Korean War.
Selected publications
Books
Treason on the Airwaves: John Amery, Charles Cousens and “Tokyo Rose”; Allied Broadcasters of Axis Radio in World War Two. Westport, Conn: Praeger International, 2009.
A una milla de Huesca: Diario de una enfermera Australiana en la Guerra civil española, with V'ctor Pardo Lancina. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005.
Luchando por Franco: Volontarios europeos al servicio de la España fascistas, 1936- 1939, Barcelona: Salvat, 2002.
Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War. London: Leicester University Press; New York, Continuum, 2001.
Last Mile to Huesca: An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1988
Recent Articles and Chapters in Books
"Bodily Matters Above and Below Ground: The Treatment of American Remains from the Korean War" The Public Historian V 32, No 1, February 2010, [forthcoming]
"Fighting for God, for Franco and (most of all) for Themselves: Right Wing Volunteeers in the Spanish Civil War", in War Volunteering in Modern Times, (Basingstoke, Palgrave, [forthcoming 2010]
"Unearthing the Past: The Role of Historical Memory in the Spanish Civil War", in Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War edited by Mark Derby, Canterbury: University of Canterbury Press, 2009, 255- 268.
"Turning Memories into History in the Spanish Year of Historical Memory," Journal of Contemporary History 42 (October 2007): 661-73.
"A la recerca de la vida a Acràcia.Un anarquista català a Austràlia," El Contemporani, 33-34 (gener-desembre 2007): 85-99
“Toreros y canguros: hablando y enseñando español en Australia”, Spagna Contemporanea: Semestrale di Storia Cultura e Bibliografia (Universities of Milan & Turin) 14, no 27 (2005), 187-200.
“Foreign Women in Spain for General Franco during the Spanish Civil War”, in Right Wing Women Around the Globe, edited by Paola Bachetta & Margaret Power, London: Routledge Press, 2002, 183- 196.
“Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War”, in Amazons to Fighter Pilots: Biography and History of Military Women Worldwide, edited by Reina Pennington, 2 vols., Westport Conn: Greenwood Press,2003.
“Fighting on Other Fronts: Daily Diplomacy in Madrid During World War Two”, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical studies Bulletin, XXVIII, (Spring/Fall 2003)
“Feminists, Catholics and Anti-clericals and Spanish Women’s Suffrage”, Australian Feminist Studies Vol 17 No 38 ( 2002),165-175.
“The Filmmaker as Historian, Above and Below Ground: Emir Kusturica and the Narratives of Yugoslav History”, Rethinking History, 5:2 (2001), 233-253.
“Into the clear air of the plaza; Spanish Women Achieve the Vote in 1931”, in Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain, edited by Victoria Enders and Pamela Radcliff, New York, State University of New York Press, 2000, 325-349.
Select Commissioned Media Pieces
ABC Radio, Late Night Live, "Traitors in World War Two" 30 September 2009-11-12
Sydney Morning Herald, Op Ed opinion piece, "Where the War Dead Lie" 10 June 2008
ABC Radio, Australia Talks, "Dealing with Australian and British bodies at Fromelles on the Western Front," 12 June 2008
ABC Radio, Rear Vision, "Spanish women parliamentarians," 29 June 2008
The Australian 2 October 2006: Op Ed opinion piece “Tokyo Rose Was Not a Traitor.”
BBC News Magazine, BBC website, 27 September 2006: “The Other Volunteers in Spain.”
ABC Radio Triple J, 18 November 2006: “ Is Nazism Dead?”
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 29 June 2005: “Russia Lifts the Siege of History.”
Sydney Morning Herald 11 April 2004 : Op Ed opinion piece “Madrid Bombing.”
ABC TV 7.30 Report, 16 December 2004: “World War One and the Christmas Truce.”
Reviews
In the last three years I have reviewed for the Australian Book Review, Journal of Social History, European History Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary History and Military History Review.
Areas of teaching and research supervision
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- HSTY1044 Twentieth Century Europe
- HSTY2608 European Film and History
- HSTY 2626 Fascism and Antifascism
- HSTY2651 Spanish Civil War
- PACS 2002 History and Politics of War and Peace
- EUST 6901 National Cinemas, National Identities
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- War and peace in the twentieth century
- Spanish civil war
- Inter war Europe
- European cinema
Other professional contributions
Among her professional activities, Judith Keene is active in promoting European Studies in Australia. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association which is the professional organisation for historians in Australia. The AHA convenes a bi-ennial conference and publishes History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association.