The Power of the Translator: a New History of Cultural Change and Communication. Translators are crucial agents of cultural exchange. Understanding how translators construct and perform their role is vital to comprehend societies' conceptions of language and culture. This project aims to produce a new history of cultural change and enhance understanding of the translator’s agency in global communication. This will be achieved by studying the voices of translators as they emerge from manuscripts ....The Power of the Translator: a New History of Cultural Change and Communication. Translators are crucial agents of cultural exchange. Understanding how translators construct and perform their role is vital to comprehend societies' conceptions of language and culture. This project aims to produce a new history of cultural change and enhance understanding of the translator’s agency in global communication. This will be achieved by studying the voices of translators as they emerge from manuscripts, prints, and archival documents of the Renaissance, one of the richest periods of cultural interaction between Latin, Greek, and local languages.Read moreRead less
Literary romanticism and the media of romantic love: a cultural history, 1774-1840. This project will produce a groundbreaking cultural history of romantic love that analyses romantic love not as a feeling but as a code of communication. Correlating the democratisation of that code with the emergence of Romanticism, it will advance Romanticism Studies by examining how literary Romanticism mediates the culture of romantic love.
Modernism and the British secret state. The purpose of the project is to explore interactions between modernist culture and intelligence agencies such as Military Intelligence, Section 5. It opens an exciting new field for modernist scholarship, and the resulting book will make an important contribution to the broader understanding of the process of government surveillance and its impact upon literature and culture.
Transformations of Terence: ancient drama, new media, and contemporary reception. This project builds on the highly successful and critically acclaimed initiatives of this team to create and disseminate digital editions of medieval manuscripts, published with international universities and presses. It will establish further the international reputation of Australian scholars in the field of classical literary studies.
Medieval Irish law texts: scholarly, legal and social development. This interdisciplinary project focuses on a vast collection of Irish law texts. Those texts reflect developments in the Gaelic culture of Ireland over the entire medieval period. This project will bring a clearer understanding of the development of Celtic culture, which has been a strong factor in the creation of an Australian cultural identity.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100242
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$345,000.00
Summary
The Anxiety of Authority: Authorship Practices in the Age of Enlightenment. This project aims to provide a comprehensive examination of 18th-century authorship practices through a combination of computational analysis, traditional critical methods, and existing digital resources. Using techniques developed in the digital humanities for large-scale text analysis, the project intends to explore the interrelated concepts of authorship and authority as they were conceived and contested during the En ....The Anxiety of Authority: Authorship Practices in the Age of Enlightenment. This project aims to provide a comprehensive examination of 18th-century authorship practices through a combination of computational analysis, traditional critical methods, and existing digital resources. Using techniques developed in the digital humanities for large-scale text analysis, the project intends to explore the interrelated concepts of authorship and authority as they were conceived and contested during the Enlightenment period. In so doing, the project plans to offer new insights into the long history of authorship as well as provide a working model for how these kinds of cutting-edge data-intensive approaches can engage meaningfully with the growing cultural record while transforming our knowledge of the past.Read moreRead less
Orientalism of the Mediterranean shore: art and place from Tunis to Marseille. This project focuses on new ways of thinking about how art links North Africa and Europe. Researching the images of Tunis, Algiers, Granada and Marseille in painting and photography (between 1880-1950) will lead to high-level outputs; beginning with a 2014 exhibition on Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter as Orientalists.
Canonic Techniques and Musical Change from c.1330 to c.1530. This project aims to reconceptualise current understandings of musical composition from circa 1330 to circa 1530. Employing innovative computational tools, it aims to show for the first time the specific techniques that composers employed to create different kinds of musical canons. The resulting monograph will seek to make a substantive and original contribution to the history of compositional practice and demonstrate the fundamental ....Canonic Techniques and Musical Change from c.1330 to c.1530. This project aims to reconceptualise current understandings of musical composition from circa 1330 to circa 1530. Employing innovative computational tools, it aims to show for the first time the specific techniques that composers employed to create different kinds of musical canons. The resulting monograph will seek to make a substantive and original contribution to the history of compositional practice and demonstrate the fundamental role played by canonic techniques in broader sociocultural functions and uses of music.Read moreRead less
Art, theatre and community in eighteenth century France. This project explores networks of creativity and innovation binding visual artists and the theatrical world in eighteenth century France. It argues for a community-based understanding of relationships between artists and theatre people, and that these intricate knots of creative agency have tangible effects on the course of art and drama.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100144
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$333,331.00
Summary
The Charitable Child: Children and Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century. This project reconceptualises the relationship between children and philanthropic institutions in the nineteenth century by researching the role of children as active supporters of philanthropic enterprises. Despite numerous charitable campaigns in the British and colonial periodical press aimed at children, little has been done to explore how and why children became sympathetic towards others. This project will explore h ....The Charitable Child: Children and Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century. This project reconceptualises the relationship between children and philanthropic institutions in the nineteenth century by researching the role of children as active supporters of philanthropic enterprises. Despite numerous charitable campaigns in the British and colonial periodical press aimed at children, little has been done to explore how and why children became sympathetic towards others. This project will explore how children operated as agents of philanthropy within imperial, missionary and national confines and will focus on the implications of race and gender in the development of charitable activities. Read moreRead less