About Associate Professor Judith Keene
Associate Professor Judith Keene’s research interests include: Twentieth century European cultural and political history; Inter-war Europe and European cinema.
Associate Professor Judith Keene is the Director of the European Studies Centre at The University of Sydney and a member of the Department of History. Her research and teaching interests are in twentieth century European cultural and political history with a particular interest in inter-war Europe and European cinema. She teaches senior and junior units of study on European history. In the last two years she has taught courses on Fascism and Anti-Fascism; the Spanish Civil War and European Film and History. She also co-ordinates a core course in the Master of European Studies.
Current projects
Associate Professor Keene is completing a study (funded by the Australian Research Council from 2001 to 2004) on the Englishman John Amery executed as a traitor in London at the end of the Second World War for broadcasting for the Axis, and on his contemporaries, Charles Cousens and Iva Toguri, tried respectively in Sydney and San Francisco for broadcasting over Radio Tokyo during the Pacific War. For preliminary work on the Amerys see the special issue of History Australia (July 2004) dealing with Ornamentalism.
Associate Professor Keene also has a research project on the foreign diplomatic corps in Madrid during World War Two (funded by a University of Sydney Sesqui-Centenary Research and Development Grant). For preliminary work on this subject see Estudios de Historia Iberoamericana II, (2004).
Areas of research supervision
- Twentieth century European cultural and political history
- Inter-war Europe
- European cinema