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Professor Emeritus Robert Dixon

BA (Hons), PhD Syd, FAHA

Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature
Discipline of English and Writing

Email

robert.dixon@sydney.edu.au

Address

A20 - John Woolley Building

The University of Sydney

Websites

Australian Literature Program

Resume

Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

Robert Dixon is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (1995-7), a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2008-10), judge of the Miles Franklin Literary Award (2004-9), chair of the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, and a consultant to ACARA on the Australian Curriculum: English. He has held an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (2003-7) and an ARC Discovery Outstanding Research Award (2013-16). He is general editor of the Sydney University Press Studies in Australian Literature series.

Research interests

Australian literature and literary criticism
colonialism and its culture
Australian cultural studies
postcolonial studies
Australian art history, photography and early cinema.

Research group

Nineteenth-Century Studies

Current projects

Scenes of Reading: Australian Literature and the World Republics of Letters (ARC DORA, 2013-15).

Selected publications

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays

(Sydney University Press, 2018)

Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time

(Sydney University Press, 2014)

Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurleys Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (Paperback)

(Anthem Press, 2013)

Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature

(Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013)

Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurleys Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (Paperback)

(Anthem Press, 2012)

Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia

(Sydney University Press, 2012)

The Novels of Alex Miller: An Introduction

(Allen and Unwin, 2012)

The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941

(Anthem Press, 2011)

Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories

(Sydney University Press, 2010)

Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age

(Sydney University Press, 2009)

Impact of the modern: vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s to 1960s

(Sydney University Press, 2008)

Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000

(University of Queensland Press, 2001)

Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance

(University of Queensland Press, 2001)

Publications

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Books

Dixon, R. (2014). Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2013). Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurleys Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (Paperback). London: Anthem Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2012). Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurleys Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (Paperback). London: Anthem Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R., Bird, D., Lee, K. (2001). Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Dixon, R. (2001). Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance. Australia: University of Queensland Press.

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Edited Books

Dixon, R. (2018). Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R., Rooney, B. (2013). Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, P., Dixon, R. (2012). Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2012). The Novels of Alex Miller: An Introduction. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
Dixon, R., Lee, C. (2011). The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941. London: Anthem Press.
Dixon, R., Birns, N. (2010). Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Bode, K., Dixon, R. (2009). Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R., Kelly, V. (2008). Impact of the modern: vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s to 1960s. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

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Book Chapters

Dixon, R. (2023). Transnational Optics: The Late Colonial Fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin. In David Carter (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, (pp. 63-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2018). Circles of Violence: Historical Constellations in 'Death of a River Guide' and 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping'. In Robert Dixon (Eds.), Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays, (pp. 21-41). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R., Zavaglia, L. (2018). The Novels of Richard Flanagan: An Introduction. In Robert Dixon (Eds.), Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays, (pp. 1-19). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2017). "The wind from Siberia": Metageography and Ironic Nationality in the Novels of Elizabeth Harrower. In Elizabeth McMahon, Brigitta Olubas (Eds.), Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, (pp. 49-64). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2016). Australian Literature, Scale, and the Problem of the World. In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 173-195). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2016). Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking [reprint]. In Lawrence J. Trudeau (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, (pp. 43-50). Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2016). Home or Away? The Trope of Place in Australian Literary Criticism and Literary History [reprint]. In Lawrence J. Trudeau (Eds.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers Who Died Between 1900 & 1999. Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2016). Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones's 'Five Bells' [reprint]. In Lawrence J. Trudeau (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, (pp. 71-80). Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2015). Frank Hurley, 'Mirror Room in the Golestan, Tehran, 16 April 1944'. In Anne Maxwell, Josephine Croci (Eds.), Shifting Focus: Colonial Australian Photography 1850-1920, (pp. 265-289). North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2014). 'The Great Australian Emptiness' Revisited: Murray Bail's 'Holden's Performance' [Reprint]. In Lawrence J Trudeau (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume353, (pp. 3-9). Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2014). Returning to the Scene of the Crime: On Re-reading The Transit of Venus. In Brigitta Olubas (Eds.), Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays, (pp. 79-93). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R., Hoorn, J. (2013). Art and literature: a cosmopolitan culture. In Alison Bashford, Stuart Macintyre (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 1: Indigenous and Colonial Australia, (pp. 487-510). New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R., Rooney, B. (2013). Introduction: Australian Literature, Globalisation and the Literary Province. In Robert Dixon, Brigid Rooney (Eds.), Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature, (pp. ix-xxxvi). North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2012). Alternative conceptual geographies. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 166-172). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2012). Disestablished Worlds: An Introduction to the Novels of Alex Miller. In Robert Dixon (Eds.), The Novels of Alex Miller: An Introduction, (pp. 1-28). Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
Kirkpatrick, P., Dixon, R. (2012). Introduction: Republics of Letters and Literary Communities. In Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon (Eds.), Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, (pp. v-xix). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2012). Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature? In Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon (Eds.), Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, (pp. 71-83). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R., Lee, C. (2011). Introduction. In Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee (Eds.), The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941, (pp. xi-xxxviii). London: Anthem Press.
Dixon, R. (2010). 'Turning a Place into a Field': Shirley Hazzard's 'The Great Fire' and Cold War Area Studies. In Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns (Eds.), Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories, (pp. 265-279). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2010). Australian Literature and the Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation. In David Carter and Wang Guanglin (Eds.), Modern Australian Criticism and Theory, (pp. 115-126). Qingdao: China Ocean University Press.
Dixon, R., Birns, N. (2010). Introduction. In Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns (Eds.), Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories, (pp. XIII-XXI). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2010). Introduction. In SUP (Eds.), The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, (pp. v-xi). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2009). Australian Fiction and the world republic of letters, 1890-1950. In Peter Pierce (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, (pp. 223-254). Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Dixon, R. (2009). Australian literature in the translation zone: Robert Dessaix and David Malouf. In Bode, Katherine; Dixon, Robert (Eds.), Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age, (pp. 87-104). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2009). Pictures at an exhibition: the exhibitionary context of early Aboriginal cinema and photographic culture. In Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema (Eds.), Creative Nation: Australian cinema and cultural studies reader, (pp. 385-404). Sports & Spirtual Science Publications.
Bode, K., Dixon, R. (2009). Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age. In Bode, Katherine; Dixon, Robert (Eds.), Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age, (pp. 1-27). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R., Kelly, V. (2008). Australian vernacular modernities: people, sites and practices. In Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly (Eds.), Impact of the modern: vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s to 1960s, (pp. xiii-xxiv). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2007). The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State. In Helen Tiffin (Eds.), Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire, (pp. 131-148). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
Dixon, R. (2004). Neoclassicism and Early Colonial Australia. Lectures La Fontaine. St Petersburg: University of St Petersburg.
Dixon, R. (2004). Two Versions of Australian Pastoral: Les Murray and William Robinson. In Judith Ryan, Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Eds.), Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, (pp. 285-304). London, England: Harvard University Press.
Dixon, R. (2002). Frank Hurley's Pearls and Savages: Travel, representation and colonial governance. In Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston (Eds.), In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire, (pp. 191-216). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2001). Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy. In Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn (Eds.), Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, (pp. 112-125). United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.
Dixon, R. (2001). Introduction. In Delys Bird (Eds.), Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. Australia: University of Queensland Press.

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Journals

Dixon, R. (2018). Figures in Geometry: The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones. Sydney Review of Books, 7 September 2018. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2017). "Communications from Below": Scalar Transformations in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) and Steven Carroll's A World of Other People (2013). Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, 31(1), 184-205. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2015). Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures. Australian Literary Studies, 30(3), 6-27.
Dixon, R. (2015). National Literatures, Scale and the Problem of the World. JASAL, 15(3), 1-10. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2015). Navigating the Global: Theories of Global and Local Spaces, and Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country. Metaphor, 2015 (2), 5-11.
Dixon, R. (2014). "A Nation for a Continent": Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era. Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, 28(1), 141-154.
Dixon, R. (2014). Review of 'Photography and Exploration' by James R. Ryan and 'Photography and Travel' by Graham Smith. History of Photography, 38(3), 319-321.
Dixon, R. (2014). Shooting in Occupied Space: Frank Hurley in the Middle East, 1940-46. History of Photography, 38(1), 40-55. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2013). Australian Literature and the World Republic of Letters. Metaphor, 1 (2013), 3-11.
Dixon, R. (2013). Reading Patrick White's "The Aunt's Story". Metaphor, 2 (2013), 5-13.
Dixon, R. (2013). Review of Brigitta Olubas, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. Australian Literary Studies, 27(3-4), 146-148.
Dixon, R. (2012). 'English' in the Australian Curriculum: English. Australian Journal of English Education, 47(1), 19-25. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2012). Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones's Five Bells. JASAL, 12(3), 1-17.
Dixon, R. (2012). Review of David Hempleman-Adams, Sophie Gordon and Emma Stuart, The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography (London: Royal Collection Publications, 2009). History of Photography, 36(1), 128-130.
Dixon, R. (2011). Ground zero: Nicholas Rothwell's natural history of destruction. Studies in Travel Writing, 15(2), 177-188. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2010). Peter Carey's and Ray Lawrence's Bliss (1985): fiction, film and power. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 3(3), 279-294. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2009). Home or away? The trope of place in Australian literary criticism and literary history. Westerly, 54(1), 12-17.
Dixon, R. (2009). Travelling mass-media circus: Frank Hurley and colonial modernity. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 31, 9-29.
Dixon, R. (2008). Australian literature and the new empiricism: a response to Paul Eggert, "Australian classics and the price of books". JASAL, 2008 (Special Issue: The Colonial Present), 158-162.
Dixon, R. (2008). Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking. JASAL, 8, 121-137.
Dixon, R. (2007). Australian Literature-International Contexts. Southerly, 67(1-2), 15-27.
Dixon, R. (2007). Cosmopolitanism and Australian Studies. Australian Studies, 19(2), 66-77.
Dixon, R. (2007). Spotting the fake: C. E. W. Bean, Frank Hurley and the making of the 1923 photographic record of the war. History of Photography, 31(2), 165-179. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2007). What Was Travel Writing? Frank Hurley and the Media Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century Australian Travel Writing. Studies in Travel Writing, 11(1), 59-81. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2006). Review of Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation. Studies in Western Australian History, 24, 133-135.
Dixon, R. (2006). Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurleyâ€™s Synchronized Lecture Entertainments. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 33(1), 60-87.
Dixon, R. (2005). Internationalizing Australian Studies: The Year's Work in Non-Fiction 2004-2005. Westerly, 50, 128-143.
Dixon, R. (2005). Tim Winton, Cloudstreet and the field of Australian literature. Westerly, 50, 245-260.
Dixon, R. (2004). 'Where are the dead?' Spiritualism, photography and the Great War. History of Photography, 28(3), 247-260.
Dixon, R. (2004). Boundary Work: Australian Literary Studies in the Field of Knowledge Production. JASAL, 3, 27-43.
Dixon, R. (2004). Cosmopolitan Australians and Colonial Modernity: Alex Millerâ€™s Conditions of Faith, Gail Jones's Black Mirror and A. L. McCann's The White Body of Evening. Westerly, 49, 122-137.
Dixon, R. (2003). Australian Literary Studies and Post-Colonialism. AUMLA, 100, 108-121. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2003). Making Oz Lit (LITERARY CRITICISM - Richard Nile: The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination). Australian Book Review, 248(February 2003), 45-46.
Dixon, R. (2003). Review of A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945: A National Culture in a Colonised Market. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 97(3), 400-401.
Dixon, R. (2003). Review of Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony. Social History, 28(3), 401-403.
Dixon, R. (2003). Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments. Journal of Australian Studies, 78, 123-137-217-218.
Dixon, R. (2002). citizens and asylum seekers: Emotional Literacy, Rhetorical Leadership and Human Rights. Cultural Studies Review, 8(2), 11-26.
Dixon, R. (2002). Review of Andrew Hassam, Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 4(1), 110-113.
Dixon, R. (2001). Review of Alfred J Gabay, Messages from Beyond: Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age 1870-1890. Journal of Australian Studies, (2), online.
Dixon, R. (2000). Review of Paul de Serville, Rolf Boldrewood: A Life. Historical Studies, 32(116), 176-178.
Dixon, R. (1999). Review of Patricia Clarke, Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist. Coppertales: a journal of rural arts, 7, 111-114.
Dixon, R. (1996). Travelling in the West: The Writing of Amitav Ghosh. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 31(1), 3-24.
Dixon, R. (1990). Kingsley's Geoffry Hamlyn and the Art of Landscape. , 239-250.

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Other

Dixon, R. (2016), Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE, 1924-2016. In Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Report, 2015-16.

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2023

Dixon, R. (2023). Transnational Optics: The Late Colonial Fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin. In David Carter (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, (pp. 63-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

2018

Dixon, R. (2018). Circles of Violence: Historical Constellations in 'Death of a River Guide' and 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping'. In Robert Dixon (Eds.), Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays, (pp. 21-41). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2018). Figures in Geometry: The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones. Sydney Review of Books, 7 September 2018. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2018). Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R., Zavaglia, L. (2018). The Novels of Richard Flanagan: An Introduction. In Robert Dixon (Eds.), Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays, (pp. 1-19). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]

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2017

Dixon, R. (2017). "Communications from Below": Scalar Transformations in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) and Steven Carroll's A World of Other People (2013). Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, 31(1), 184-205. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2017). "The wind from Siberia": Metageography and Ironic Nationality in the Novels of Elizabeth Harrower. In Elizabeth McMahon, Brigitta Olubas (Eds.), Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, (pp. 49-64). Sydney: Sydney University Press.

2016

Dixon, R. (2016). Australian Literature, Scale, and the Problem of the World. In Peter Morgan (Eds.), Text, Translation, Transnationalism: World Literature in 21st Century Australia, (pp. 173-195). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2016), Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE, 1924-2016. In Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Report, 2015-16.
Dixon, R. (2016). Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking [reprint]. In Lawrence J. Trudeau (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, (pp. 43-50). Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2016). Home or Away? The Trope of Place in Australian Literary Criticism and Literary History [reprint]. In Lawrence J. Trudeau (Eds.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers Who Died Between 1900 & 1999. Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2016). Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones's 'Five Bells' [reprint]. In Lawrence J. Trudeau (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, (pp. 71-80). Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.

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2015

Dixon, R. (2015). Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures. Australian Literary Studies, 30(3), 6-27.
Dixon, R. (2015). Frank Hurley, 'Mirror Room in the Golestan, Tehran, 16 April 1944'. In Anne Maxwell, Josephine Croci (Eds.), Shifting Focus: Colonial Australian Photography 1850-1920, (pp. 265-289). North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2015). National Literatures, Scale and the Problem of the World. JASAL, 15(3), 1-10. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2015). Navigating the Global: Theories of Global and Local Spaces, and Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country. Metaphor, 2015 (2), 5-11.

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2014

Dixon, R. (2014). "A Nation for a Continent": Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era. Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, 28(1), 141-154.
Dixon, R. (2014). 'The Great Australian Emptiness' Revisited: Murray Bail's 'Holden's Performance' [Reprint]. In Lawrence J Trudeau (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume353, (pp. 3-9). Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning.
Dixon, R. (2014). Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2014). Returning to the Scene of the Crime: On Re-reading The Transit of Venus. In Brigitta Olubas (Eds.), Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays, (pp. 79-93). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2014). Review of 'Photography and Exploration' by James R. Ryan and 'Photography and Travel' by Graham Smith. History of Photography, 38(3), 319-321.
Dixon, R. (2014). Shooting in Occupied Space: Frank Hurley in the Middle East, 1940-46. History of Photography, 38(1), 40-55. [More Information]

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2013

Dixon, R., Hoorn, J. (2013). Art and literature: a cosmopolitan culture. In Alison Bashford, Stuart Macintyre (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 1: Indigenous and Colonial Australia, (pp. 487-510). New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2013). Australian Literature and the World Republic of Letters. Metaphor, 1 (2013), 3-11.
Dixon, R., Rooney, B. (2013). Introduction: Australian Literature, Globalisation and the Literary Province. In Robert Dixon, Brigid Rooney (Eds.), Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature, (pp. ix-xxxvi). North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2013). Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurleys Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (Paperback). London: Anthem Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2013). Reading Patrick White's "The Aunt's Story". Metaphor, 2 (2013), 5-13.
Dixon, R. (2013). Review of Brigitta Olubas, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. Australian Literary Studies, 27(3-4), 146-148.
Dixon, R., Rooney, B. (2013). Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. [More Information]

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2012

Dixon, R. (2012). 'English' in the Australian Curriculum: English. Australian Journal of English Education, 47(1), 19-25. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2012). Alternative conceptual geographies. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 166-172). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2012). Disestablished Worlds: An Introduction to the Novels of Alex Miller. In Robert Dixon (Eds.), The Novels of Alex Miller: An Introduction, (pp. 1-28). Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
Kirkpatrick, P., Dixon, R. (2012). Introduction: Republics of Letters and Literary Communities. In Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon (Eds.), Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, (pp. v-xix). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2012). Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones's Five Bells. JASAL, 12(3), 1-17.
Dixon, R. (2012). Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurleys Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (Paperback). London: Anthem Press. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, P., Dixon, R. (2012). Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2012). Review of David Hempleman-Adams, Sophie Gordon and Emma Stuart, The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography (London: Royal Collection Publications, 2009). History of Photography, 36(1), 128-130.
Dixon, R. (2012). Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature? In Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon (Eds.), Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, (pp. 71-83). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2012). The Novels of Alex Miller: An Introduction. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.

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2011

Dixon, R. (2011). Ground zero: Nicholas Rothwell's natural history of destruction. Studies in Travel Writing, 15(2), 177-188. [More Information]
Dixon, R., Lee, C. (2011). Introduction. In Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee (Eds.), The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941, (pp. xi-xxxviii). London: Anthem Press.
Dixon, R., Lee, C. (2011). The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941. London: Anthem Press.

2010

Dixon, R. (2010). 'Turning a Place into a Field': Shirley Hazzard's 'The Great Fire' and Cold War Area Studies. In Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns (Eds.), Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories, (pp. 265-279). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2010). Australian Literature and the Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation. In David Carter and Wang Guanglin (Eds.), Modern Australian Criticism and Theory, (pp. 115-126). Qingdao: China Ocean University Press.
Dixon, R., Birns, N. (2010). Introduction. In Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns (Eds.), Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories, (pp. XIII-XXI). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2010). Introduction. In SUP (Eds.), The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, (pp. v-xi). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2010). Peter Carey's and Ray Lawrence's Bliss (1985): fiction, film and power. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 3(3), 279-294. [More Information]
Dixon, R., Birns, N. (2010). Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

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2009

Dixon, R. (2009). Australian Fiction and the world republic of letters, 1890-1950. In Peter Pierce (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, (pp. 223-254). Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Dixon, R. (2009). Australian literature in the translation zone: Robert Dessaix and David Malouf. In Bode, Katherine; Dixon, Robert (Eds.), Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age, (pp. 87-104). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2009). Home or away? The trope of place in Australian literary criticism and literary history. Westerly, 54(1), 12-17.
Dixon, R. (2009). Pictures at an exhibition: the exhibitionary context of early Aboriginal cinema and photographic culture. In Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema (Eds.), Creative Nation: Australian cinema and cultural studies reader, (pp. 385-404). Sports & Spirtual Science Publications.
Bode, K., Dixon, R. (2009). Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Bode, K., Dixon, R. (2009). Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age. In Bode, Katherine; Dixon, Robert (Eds.), Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age, (pp. 1-27). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2009). Travelling mass-media circus: Frank Hurley and colonial modernity. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 31, 9-29.

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2008

Dixon, R. (2008). Australian literature and the new empiricism: a response to Paul Eggert, "Australian classics and the price of books". JASAL, 2008 (Special Issue: The Colonial Present), 158-162.
Dixon, R., Kelly, V. (2008). Australian vernacular modernities: people, sites and practices. In Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly (Eds.), Impact of the modern: vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s to 1960s, (pp. xiii-xxiv). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Dixon, R. (2008). Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking. JASAL, 8, 121-137.
Dixon, R., Kelly, V. (2008). Impact of the modern: vernacular modernities in Australia 1870s to 1960s. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

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2007

Dixon, R. (2007). Australian Literature-International Contexts. Southerly, 67(1-2), 15-27.
Dixon, R. (2007). Cosmopolitanism and Australian Studies. Australian Studies, 19(2), 66-77.
Dixon, R. (2007). Spotting the fake: C. E. W. Bean, Frank Hurley and the making of the 1923 photographic record of the war. History of Photography, 31(2), 165-179. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2007). The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State. In Helen Tiffin (Eds.), Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire, (pp. 131-148). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
Dixon, R. (2007). What Was Travel Writing? Frank Hurley and the Media Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century Australian Travel Writing. Studies in Travel Writing, 11(1), 59-81. [More Information]

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2006

Dixon, R. (2006). Review of Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation. Studies in Western Australian History, 24, 133-135.
Dixon, R. (2006). Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurleyâ€™s Synchronized Lecture Entertainments. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 33(1), 60-87.

2005

Dixon, R. (2005). Internationalizing Australian Studies: The Year's Work in Non-Fiction 2004-2005. Westerly, 50, 128-143.
Dixon, R. (2005). Tim Winton, Cloudstreet and the field of Australian literature. Westerly, 50, 245-260.

2004

Dixon, R. (2004). 'Where are the dead?' Spiritualism, photography and the Great War. History of Photography, 28(3), 247-260.
Dixon, R. (2004). Boundary Work: Australian Literary Studies in the Field of Knowledge Production. JASAL, 3, 27-43.
Dixon, R. (2004). Cosmopolitan Australians and Colonial Modernity: Alex Millerâ€™s Conditions of Faith, Gail Jones's Black Mirror and A. L. McCann's The White Body of Evening. Westerly, 49, 122-137.
Dixon, R. (2004). Neoclassicism and Early Colonial Australia. Lectures La Fontaine. St Petersburg: University of St Petersburg.
Dixon, R. (2004). Two Versions of Australian Pastoral: Les Murray and William Robinson. In Judith Ryan, Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Eds.), Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, (pp. 285-304). London, England: Harvard University Press.

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2003

Dixon, R. (2003). Australian Literary Studies and Post-Colonialism. AUMLA, 100, 108-121. [More Information]
Dixon, R. (2003). Making Oz Lit (LITERARY CRITICISM - Richard Nile: The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination). Australian Book Review, 248(February 2003), 45-46.
Dixon, R. (2003). Review of A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945: A National Culture in a Colonised Market. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 97(3), 400-401.
Dixon, R. (2003). Review of Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony. Social History, 28(3), 401-403.
Dixon, R. (2003). Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments. Journal of Australian Studies, 78, 123-137-217-218.

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2002

Dixon, R. (2002). citizens and asylum seekers: Emotional Literacy, Rhetorical Leadership and Human Rights. Cultural Studies Review, 8(2), 11-26.
Dixon, R. (2002). Frank Hurley's Pearls and Savages: Travel, representation and colonial governance. In Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston (Eds.), In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire, (pp. 191-216). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Dixon, R. (2002). Review of Andrew Hassam, Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 4(1), 110-113.

2001

Dixon, R., Bird, D., Lee, K. (2001). Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Dixon, R. (2001). Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy. In Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn (Eds.), Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, (pp. 112-125). United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.
Dixon, R. (2001). Introduction. In Delys Bird (Eds.), Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Dixon, R. (2001). Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance. Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Dixon, R. (2001). Review of Alfred J Gabay, Messages from Beyond: Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age 1870-1890. Journal of Australian Studies, (2), online.

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2000

Dixon, R. (2000). Review of Paul de Serville, Rolf Boldrewood: A Life. Historical Studies, 32(116), 176-178.

1999

Dixon, R. (1999). Review of Patricia Clarke, Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist. Coppertales: a journal of rural arts, 7, 111-114.

1996

Dixon, R. (1996). Travelling in the West: The Writing of Amitav Ghosh. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 31(1), 3-24.

1990

Dixon, R. (1990). Kingsley's Geoffry Hamlyn and the Art of Landscape. , 239-250.

Selected Grants

2013

Scenes of Reading: Australian Literature and the world republic of letters, Dixon R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2011

Writing the World - Transnationalism in Literary Studies, Bandhauer A, Borghesi F, Christie W, Cowan R, Dixon R, Giles P, Karalis V, Kirkpatrick P, Lu Y, Minter P, Morgan P, Parsons N, Rooney B, Suter R, Walsh A, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

2009

e Research Insfrastructure for Humanities Scholars: Facilitating literary and narrative studies, childrens and popular fictions and film/TV studies, Dixon R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)

2008

AustLit Phase Three: Transforming the Study of Australian Literature through a Collaborative eResearch Environment, Fotheringham R, Dixon R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)

2006

Frank Hurley: The Making of a Modern Cultural Icon, Dixon R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
New Electronic Archives for Australian Literature, Bode K, Bode K, Dale L, Dixon R, Whitlock G, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

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