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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
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