Dr Marita Bullock
Contact Details
Office: W6A 222
Phone: 61-2-9850 8743
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: marita.bullock@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA (Hons) UTAS, PhD UNSW
Profile
Marita Bullock is a full-time research assistant for Dr. Nicole Moore's ARC funded cultural history project about literary obscenity and censorship in twentieth century Australia . She is responsible for compiling a bibliography of every literary book that was banned between the years 1933-1975, drawing upon censorship files from the National Archives of Australia. This dataset is a work in progress that is currently accessible via its host, the Austlit gateway.
Prior to her employment at Macquarie , Marita Bullock completed her PhD (UNSW) on Walter Benjamin, trash and contemporary visual culture in light of theoretical debates in the fields of cultural memory, modernity and postmodernity. She is currently writing a book titled Memory Fragments: Excavations of Trash in Contemporary Visual Culture , which will be published by Network Books and Curtin University Press, as part of the series ‘Vectors: New Writing in Cultural Studies.'
Her next research project will focus on figurations of melancholy and dereliction in contemporary visual culture, theory and text.
Special Interests
Contemporary visual culture and film; Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project , the ethnographic/archival turn in contemporary art; documentary aesthetics and cultural memory; figurations of melancholy in contemporary culture; gender and sexuality; cultural alterity; trash, dereliction, kitsch and the shifting parameters of the modern and postmodern.
Selected publications
Book
Forthcoming book in series ‘Vectors: New Writing in Cultural Studies'. Memory Fragments: Excavations of Trash in Contemporary Visual
Culture. Perth : Curtin UP and Network Books.
Dataset
Banned in Australia : A Subset. 1933-1975. Austlit Gateway.
http://www.austlit.edu.au/SpecialistDatasets/Banned .
Book Chapter
Co-authored with Nicole Moore. ‘Banned in Australia: Sourcing the Bibliography of
Banned Books.’ Introduction to the Banned in Australia online bibliography,
forthcoming as an electronic publication on Austlit gateway, December 2007. 5000
words.
Articles
2007. ‘China China: Autoethnography and Ah Xian's porcelain forms' in Other Contact Zones: New Talents 21C. Ed. Jason Ensor, Iva Polak and Peter Van Der
Merwe. 7. July (2007). 105-117
• Forthcoming. ‘Fossilising the Commodity: Tactical Engagements With Time, Art and the Virtual in Models by Ricky Swallow'. Transformations: Walter Benjamin and the Virtual.
2006. ‘Crafting Time: Ricky Swallow's Recent Models' Philament. No. 8 June
(2006) n.pag. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue8_contents.htm
2005. ‘Melancholy Debris: Black Humour and Colonial Memory in Grids By Julie Gough.' Southerly . Now Writing . 65.1 (2005) 35-44
Reviews and Review-essay
‘Figuring the Uncanny'. Australian Feminist
Studies. 22:54 (2007): 409-411.
‘The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire'. Australian Humanities
Review. May-June (2003). http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/
Teaching
- ENGL276 Reading Theory
- ENGL270 Australain Literature
- AUST200 Australian Studies: Australian Perspectives
- ENGL361 Writing Colonial Culture in Australia