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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne

2020
Books
Anne Maxwell (2020). Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1850–1930. New York: Routledge, 2020. Published 7 February (e-book version) February 13 (hard copy) Routledge Cultural History Series, 334 pp, 60 BW illus

Journal articles
Anne Maxwell (2020) “Early Australian Photography and Transnationalism,” 8 BW illus, JASAL, Special Issue celebrating retirement of Robert Dixon, eds Brigid Rooney and Peter Kirkpatrick.

Anne Maxwell (2020) “Thilly Weissenborn: Photographer of the Dutch East Indies”, History of Photography 44.1.

2019
Anne Maxwell (2019) Review of “The Many Urgent Voices of Women Writers from Africa”, ed Margaret Busby, The Age 19 July 2019: 25-25.

Anne Maxwell (2019) Review of “The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World”’ by Helen Bones, Journal of New Zealand Studies (Victoria University of Wellington. Stout Research Centre, 2018): 129 –30.

2018
Anne Maxwell (2018) “Mina Moore’s Photograph of Nellie Stewart in the National Gallery of Victoria”, Journal of the NGV 56 (December 2018).

Anne Maxwell & Lucy Van (2018) “Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman: Photography in Three Australian Novels”, Journal of Australian Studies, 1-15.

2017
*Maxwell, Anne & Lucy Van (2017) “Modernist Photography and Women's Social Networks: The Case of Olive Cotton and Margaret Michaelis”, History of Photography, 41(3), 241-261. Taylor and Francis Group.

Anne Maxwell (2017) Review of “Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East” by Ali Bedhad, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49.3: 311–15.

2016
Anne Maxwell, Lucy Van and Morfia Grondas (2016) 70 Entries for Women Photographers in the Australian Women’s Register: e-Scholarship Research Centre,

2015
Books
Maxwell, Anne and Josephine Croci J, eds (2015). Shifting Focus: Colonial Australian Photography, 1850-1020 Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. [295 pp, 64 illus].

Book Chapters

Anne Maxwell 2015, 'Picturing Collaboration: European Women Photographers and Indigeneous Peoples in the Contestation of British and American Imperialism in the Pacific, 1890-1910', in Darian-Smith K, Edmonds P ed(s), Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers, Routledge.

Anne Maxwell 2015, 'Framing the Non-West: New approaches to the history of photography', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 16, issue 1.

2014
Book Chapters

Anne Maxwell 2014, 'Thilly Weissenborn's Luminous Touch', in Newton G ed(s), Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s, National Gallery of Australia.

Research Book Chapters

Anne Maxwell 2014, '‘Island Belles’ – Colonial Exploitation and the Introduction of a Photographic Genre', in Köpke W, Schmelz B ed(s), Blick ins paradies.

Book Chapters Other

Anne Maxwell 2014, 'Colonial Photography and Indigenous Resistance in Hawaiʻi: The Case of the Last Royal Family', in Köpke W, Schmelz B ed(s), Blick ins paradies.
2013

Journal Articles

Anne Maxwell 2013, 'Building Friendships: Civility and Savagery in R. L. Stevenson's "The Beach of Falsea" and "The Ebb-Tide"', International Journal of Scottish Literature, Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

Journal Articles Refereed

Anne Maxwell 2013, 'Modern anthropology and the problem of the racial type: the photographs of Franz Boas', Visual Communication, Sage Publications, vol. 12, issue 1.

Anne Maxwell 2013, ' Modern Anthropology and the Problem of the Racial Type: the Photographs of Franz Boas', Visual Communication, Sage Publications, vol. 12, issue 1.

Anne Maxwell, Odette Marie Kelada 2013, 'Falling From View: Whiteness, Appropriation and the Complicities of Desire in the Postcolonial Eye', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 12, issue 3.

Anne Maxwell 2013, 'Building Friendships: "Civility' and 'Savagery' in R.L Stevenson's "The Beach of Falesá" and "The Ebb Tide."', International Journal of Scottish Literature, Association for Scottish Literary Studies.
Journal Articles Unrefereed Letters or Notes

Anne Maxwell 2013, 'Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments, Robert Dixon, Anthem Press, London, 2011,', History of Photography, Taylor & Francis, vol. 37, issue 4.

2012
Journal Articles Refereed

Anne Maxwell 2012, '‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey's Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children', History of Photography, Taylor & Francis, vol. 36, issue 2.

Anne Maxwell 2012, 'Becoming Martianized: Liberal Eugenics and HG Wells' 'Star-Begotten'', English Studies: a journal of English language and literature, Sage Publications, vol. 93, issue 6.

Anne Maxwell 2012, 'Education, Literature and the Emotions: A Salute to Eleanor Dark's Prelude to Christopher', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 12, issue 1, no. 2012.

2011
Research Book Chapters

Anne Maxwell 2011, 'Remember the Voices of the Trees: The Turn from Technology in Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang', in Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Ctastrophe, Arena Printing and Publishing.
Anne Maxwell 2011, 'New Zealand's Thermal Region and the Photographic Book', in Early New Zealand Photography : Images and Essays, Otago University Print.

Journal Articles

Anne Maxwell 2011, 'Biopolitics and Eleanor Dark's Prelude to Christopher', Australian Literary Studies, University of Queensland, Australian Literary Studies, vol. 26, issue 2.
Journal Articles Refereed

Anne Maxwell 2011, 'Biopolitics in Eleanor Dark's Prelude to Christopher', Australian Literary Studies, University of Queensland, Australian Literary Studies, vol. 27, issue 4.
Anne Maxwell 2011, 'The Problem of Violence in Sheri S Tepper's 'The Gate to Women's Country'', Hecate, Hecate, vol. 37, issue 2.

Experience

  • –present
    Assoc. Professor, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne