MUP Presents New Series on Colonial Australian Culture
This new series will provide a vital window into the ‘other country’ of Australia’s all-too-proximate past.
Melbourne University Press (MUP) will release two books each year in a Colonial Australian Culture series. The series will be a library of innovative, accessible, scholarly work on colonialism in Australia.
Each title will offer an account of a particular cultural field: from fashion, art, architecture, gardening and literature to Indigenous resistance and colonial frontiers.
Colonial Australian Culture titles will be short monographs of approximately 45,000 words.
This new library will provide a vital window into the ‘other country’ of Australia’s all-too-proximate past.
General editors:
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver, University of Melbourne
Editorial board:
Amanda Nettelbeck, Australian Catholic University
Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
Rachel Standfield, University of Melbourne
Penny Edmonds, Flinders University
Authors should submit a short outline of their project, no more than two (single-spaced) pages, to either editor Ken Gelder (kdgelder@unimelb.edu.au) or Rachael Weaver (weaverra@unimelb.edu.au).
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