Select Publications
Books
2024, The Australian Desert, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003509691
,2017, From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland
,2017, From Madman to Crime Fighter The Scientist in Western Culture, JHU Press
,2013, Desert: Nature and Culture, Reaktion Books Ltd, London, http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/
,2006, Tasmanian Visions: landscapes in writing, art and photography, Polymath Press, Hobart
,2005, Van Diemen`s Land, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Hobart
,, 2000, Astronomy Across Cultures, Selin H; Xiaochun S, (ed.), Springer Netherlands, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4179-6
, 2000, Histories of the Future, Sandison A; Dingley R, (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1929-8
1998, Seeking the centre: The Australian desert in literature, art and film, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
,1996, Explorers of the southern sky: a history of Australian astronomy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
,1994, From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London
,1980, H. G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future, Macmillan Education UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04868-7
,Book Chapters
2021, '4 Scientists at Risk', in Under the Literary Microscope, Penn State University Press, pp. 77 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780271090139-007
,2021, 'Introduction Science Under the Literary Microscope', in Under the Literary Microscope, Penn State University Press, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780271090139-002
,2019, 'Travel Writing and the Desert', in The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, Cambridge University Press, pp. 315 - 329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316556740.021
,2016, 'Astronomy of the Australian Aboriginal People', in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer Netherlands, pp. 783 - 789, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_8454
,2014, 'Crop Domestication in the Amazon', in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_9876-1
,2013, 'The Rise and Fall of the mad Scientist in Film', in Schwarz A (ed.), Projeckt Evolution in der Öffentlichkeit, Boehlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar
,2010, 'Uluru', in Harper M; White R (ed.), Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the stories behind the myths, UNSW Press & National Museum of Australia, Sydney, pp. 177 - 183
,2007, 'The Alchemist in Fiction: The Master Narrative', in Schummer J; Bensaude-Vincent B; Tiggelen BV (ed.), The Public Image of Chemistry, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp. 7 - 36
,2006, 'Tasmanian Landscapes in Painting, Poetry and Print', in Memory, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present, Melbourne University Press and Australian Academy of the Humanities, Melbourne
,2003, 'From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania`s Role in the Politicising of Place', in Trigger D; Griffiths G (ed.), Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies, Univesity of HK Press, Hong Kong, pp. 81 - 108
,2003, 'The Unholy Alliance of Science in the Island of Doctor Moreau', in Partington JS (ed.), The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H.G. Wells, Equilibris, Oss, The Netherlands, pp. 55 - 68
,2000, 'Astronomy and the Dreaming: The Astronomy of the Aboriginal Australians', in Astronomy Across Cultures- The History of Non-Western Astronomy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, United Kingdom, pp. 53 - 90
,2000, 'Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised', in Histories of the Future- Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Palgrave, Hampshire, United Kingdom, pp. 34 - 50
,1998, '200 years of the Australian desert in literature', in Literature of nature: an international sourcebook, Fitzroy Dearbon Publishers, Chicago, pp. 259 - 263
,1998, 'Review of `Sex and medicine: Gender, power and authority in the medical profession', in Journal of Australian Studies, University of Queensland Press, Australia, pp. 208 - 209
,1997, 'A', in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1416-7_1
,1997, 'Astronomy of the Australian Aboriginal People', in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 105 - 108
,1997, 'Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know. Why do Scientists have such a Bad Press?', in Nurturing Creativity in Research: Ideas as the Foundation of Innovation, Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU, Canberra, pp. 186 - 196
,1997, 'Science and Literature', in Nineteenth Century Literature, Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, NL, pp. 37 recor - 135 recor
,1996, 'The desert as focus in Australian literature', in Spirit and place: art in Australia 1861 - 1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, pp. 88 - 97
,1992, 'Science, Myth and Utopia', in Twentieth-Century Fantasists, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 8 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22126-4_2
,1991, 'Dream Allegory in Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner', in The Victorian Fantasists, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 153 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21277-4_11
,'Astronomy of the Australian Aboriginal People', in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer Netherlands, pp. 299 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_8454
,Journal articles
2016, 'Whatever happened to the ‘mad, bad’ scientist? Overturning the stereotype', Public Understanding of Science, 25, pp. 31 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662514535689
,2016, 'Bringing Science into Fiction', Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 64, pp. 127 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2016-0015
,2015, 'Are the Knowledge Wars finally over?', Mètode Science Studies Journal, 5, pp. 131 - 138
,2011, 'Restless Spirit', History Australia, 8, pp. 210 - 212
,2010, 'Marie Bjelke Petersen's Romances: Fulfilling the contract, subverting the text', Southerly, 70, pp. 41 - 63
,2008, 'H.G. Wells in Nature, 1893–1946', The Wellsian, 31, pp. 68 - 73
,2007, 'Catholicism and Ideal Womanhood in Fin-de-Siècle Women's Poetry', English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 50, pp. 50 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.2487/b155-3393-80n7-780m
,2006, 'Subterranean worlds: A critical anthology', Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 34, pp. 418 - 419
,2006, 'The Alchemist in Fiction: The Master Narrative', Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 12, pp. 5 - 29
,2003, 'From alchemy to artificial intelligence: stereotypes of the scientist in Western literature', Public Understanding of Science, Vol., pp. 243 - 253
,2002, '`Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Vacation Stories`', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol., pp. 623 - 624
,2002, 'From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania`s Role in the Politicising of Place', Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and Proceedings, 49, No. 4, pp. 269 - 284
,2001, 'Romanticism and Environmentalism: The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen', Australian Literary Studies, 20, pp. 62 - 75
,1999, 'Dying of landscape: E.L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert', Australian Literary Studies, 19, pp. 32 - 43
,1998, 'Editorial', Urban Policy and Research, 16, pp. 268 - 269
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