Professor Joy Damousi
Professor of History
- Telephone:
- +61 3 8344 8999
- Email:
- j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- +61 3 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 317, Arts West (Builidng 148)
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Biography
Qualifications
BA Hons (Latrobe); PhD, (ANU)
Professional societies
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities (2004); Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia (2004)
Editorial boards
- Labour History (Australia); Gender and History (UK); Women's History Review (UK)
Prizes
- 2011 NSW Premiers' History Awards, Shortlisted, Australian History Prize for Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 (Cambridge University Press)
- 2006 Ernest Scott History Prize for Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press)
- 1999 NSW Premiers' History Awards, Shortlisted, Australian History Prize for The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge University Press)
Projects in progress
- Greek War Stories: Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Memory
- History of Democracy, Public Oratory and Women's Suffrage
- Viola Bernard: Social reform, political activism and psychoanalysis
- Women and leadership in the centuary of Australian Democracy
Research interests
Australian cultural history; feminist and women's history; memory and war; history of emotions; the self and psychoanalysis; football and popular culture; histories of democracy, speech, oratory and elocution, history of sound.
Selected publications
Single-authored books
- Joy Damousi, Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940, Cambridge University Press, London, (2010)
- Joy Damousi, Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, UNSW Press, (2005)
- Joy Damousi, Living With the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia, Cambridge University Press, (2001)
- Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia, Cambridge University Press, (1999)
- Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, (1997)
- Joy Damousi, Women Come Rally: Communism, Socialism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955, Oxford University Press, (1994)
Co-authored books
- What's Wrong With Anzac, (UNSW Press, 2010; 2nd edition 2010) with Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds and Mark McKenna
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, Footy Passions, UNSW Press, Sydney, (2009)
Edited books (since 1995)
- Joy Damousi and Ann Curthoys (eds), Intimate Histories of the Australian Cold War, UNSW Press, Sydney, (forthcoming)
- Joy Damousi, Kim Rubenstein and Mary Tomsic (eds), women, Leadership and Democracy, ANU ePress, Canberra, (forthcoming)
- Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin (eds), Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalytical Political Repression, Oxford University Press: New York (2012)
- Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin (eds), The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, London, (2009)
- Joy Damousi and D. Deacon (eds), Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU EPress, Canberra, (2007)
- Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003)
- Joy Damousi and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Citizenship, Women and Social Justice, University of Melbourne Monographs, (1999)
- Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians At War in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, (1995; 2nd edition, 2011)
Chapters (since 2001)
- Joy Damousi, 'Mourning Practices' in Jay Winter (ed.) The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 3: Civil Society at War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
- Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin, 'Psychoanalysis and Politics: Historical Perspectives', in Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin, Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom, New York, Oxford University Press (2012), pp. ix-xxx
- Joy Damousi, 'Legacies of war and migration: Memories of war trauma and Second Generation Greek-Australians' in Niklaus Steiner, Robert Mason and Anna Hayes (eds) Migration and Insecurity: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era, London, Routledge (2012), pp. 31-47
- Joy Damousi, 'Geza Roheim and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the Inter-War Years' in Warwick Anderson and Richard Keller (eds), Globalizing the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, Sovereignty, Duke University Press (2011), pp. 75-95
- Joy Damousi, 'The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations into Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Melbourne and New York', in Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin (eds), The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, London, (2008)
- Joy Damousi, 'Eyes Left: Psychiatrist Reginald Ellery and the Soviet Dream', Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds), Political Tourists: Australian Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2008), pp. 170-188
- Joy Damousi, 'The Responsibility of Empire': War and Commemoration', in Deryck Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds) The Oxford Companion to the British Empire: Australia, London, Oxford University Press, (2008), pp. 288-311
- Joy Damousi, '"The Australian has a lazy way of talking': Australian Character and Accent 1920s-1940s' in Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (eds) Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU Press, (2007), pp. 83-96
- Joy Damousi, '"The Slowly Changing Status of Women": Women's Studies and Gender Studies', in Fay Anderson and Stuart Macintyre (eds) Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, (2006), pp. 321-338
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, 'Fathers and Daughters at Play', in Matthew Nicholson and Rob Hess (eds), Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press, (2006), pp. 219-228
- Joy Damousi, 'Working Widowed Mothers and Welfare Inspectors in Victoria in the 1920s and 1930s', in Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert (eds), Double Shift, Melbourne, Circa, (2005), pp. 103-117
- Joy Damousi, 'The Emotions of History', in Stuart Macintyre (ed), The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2004), pp. 28-39
- Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, 'Psychoanalysis, Histories and Identities', in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, (eds), , History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2003), pp. 1-14
- Joy Damousi, 'A History of Dreams: Modernity, Masculinity and Inner Life in the 1920s and 1930s', in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003), pp. 26-35
- Joy Damousi, ''Disorder, Invasion and "Irrationality" in the Federal Fanchise of 1902' in John Chesterman and David Philips (ed), Selective Democracy: Race, Gender and the Australian Vote, Melbourne Publishing Group, (2003), pp. 60-70
- Joy Damousi, 'The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in Inter-War Australia', in Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard (eds), Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State Development in a Global Context, Routledge, New York, (2003), pp. 99-118
- Joy Damousi, 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary in the 1950s: Explorations of Interiority and Australian Cultural History', in Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White (eds), Cultural History in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, (2003), pp. 214-225
- Joy Damousi (with Freda Freiberg), 'Engendering the Greek: The Shifiting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema' in Lisa French (ed), Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia, Damned Publishing, Melbourne, (2003), pp. 149-160
- Joy Damousi, 'Margaret Cuthbertson, Factory Inspection and the Political Lives of Working Women, 1890-1914' in Mark Hearn and Greg Patmore (eds), Working the Nation: Working Life and Federation: 1890-1914, Pluto Press, Sydney, (2001), pp. 249-263
Articles (since 1999)
- Joy Damousi, 'Viola Bernard and the analysis of "IB": A Case Study in the History of Intimacy' Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming, 2014)
- Joy Damousi '"We are human beings, and have a past": The "Adjustment" of Migrants and the Australian Assimilation Policies of the 1950s' Australian Journal of History and Politics (forthcoming, December 2013)
- Joy Damousi, 'Female Factory inspectors and Leadership in Early Twentieth Century Australia' Labour History (forthcoming May 2013)
- Joy Damousi, '"Women-Keep Australia Free!": Women Voters and Activists in the 1951 Referendum Campaign', Australian Historical Studies (forthcoming, March 2013)
- Joy Damousi 'The Greek Civil War and Child Migration to Australia – Aileen Fitzpatrick and the Australian Council of International Social Service' Social History 37, no. 3, 2012, pp. 297-313
- Joy Damousi, 'Ethnicity and Emotions: Psychic Life in Greek Communities', Modern Greek Studies, vol. 14, 2010, pp.7-25
- Joy Damousi, 'A History of Australian Voice and Speech in Russell Ward's The Australian Legend and Beyond', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol.10, no.2, 2008, pp. 155-170
- Joy Damousi, 'An absence of anything masculine: Vida Goldstein and women's public speech', in Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 79, no.2, 2008, pp. 251-264
- Joy Damousi, 'Australian Medical Intellectuals and the Great War', in Australian Journal of Politics and History, September 2007
- Joy Damousi, '"The Filthy American Twang": Elocution, the Advent of American "Talkies" and Australian Cultural Identity', in American Historical Review, April 2007
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, 'Inside Footy Mania', in Meanjin, vol. 63, no.4, 2004, pp. 218-225
- Joy Damousi, 'Agnes Milne: The Factory Inspector as Political Agitator, 1896-1906', in Labour History, no.87, November 2004, pp. 11-30
- Joy Damousi, 'History Matters: The Politics of Grief and Injury in Australian History', in Australian Historical Studies, no.118, 2002, pp. 100-112
- Joy Damousi, 'Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography', in Gender and History, November 1999, pp. 612-624
- Joy Damousi, 'Private Loss, Public Mourning: Motherhood, Memory and Grief During the Inter-War Years', in Women's History Review, vol.8, no.2, June 1999, pp. 347-360
Current grants
- ARC Linkage Project: 2010-2012: Co-CI: Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy
- ARC Discovery Project: 2010-2012: Chief CI: Greek War Stories: Transnationalism, war trauma and migration
- ARC Discovery Project: 2010-2013: Co-CI: Making the Case: The Case Study Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Literature (with Birigit Lang and Katie Sutton)
Supervision
Recent PhD completions (since 2005)
- Caitlin Murray, 'Settling the Mind: Madness and the Colonial Project in Australia' (2012)
- Prue Mann, 'Writing about the Reich: Autobiography and History, A Case Study' (2012)
- Alex McCallum, 'Australian Children of Returned Servicemen: An Oral History' (2011)
- Jessica Ritchie, 'Gendered Discourses of War: Deconstructing Gender and the Warrior Myth in Postmodern Warfare' (2011)
- Suzanne Evans, 'The Empire Air Training Scheme: Identity, Empire and Memory' (2011)
- Robert Marmion 'Gibraltar of the South: Defending Victoria: An analysis of Colonial Defence in Victoria, 1851-1901' (2009)
- Terri Grote, Anti-Feminism as a Social Movement in Victoria, (2009)
- Matthew Klugman, Loves, Hopes & Anxieties: Suffering and Joy in the Seasonal Lives of Australian Football Followers, (2009)
- Michele Matthews, Survivors, Schemes, Samaritans and Shareholders: The Impact of the Great Depression on Bendigo and District, 1925-1935 (2007)
- Jenny Wajensberg, Looking for Home: Reconstructions of Former Jewish Citizens of Bialystok, Poland (2007)
- Danielle Thornton, Factory Girls: Class, Gender, Activism and the Making of a Female Working Class? Australia and Britain Compared, 1880-1929 (2007)
- Sarah Pinto, Emotional Histories: Contemporary Australian Historical Fictions, (2007)
- Belinda Sweeney, "Her Brain was Affected": Discourses about Women in Prostitution in Australia and the United States, 1885-1935, (2006)
- Rebecca Aitzen, "Like Gefilte Fish Out of Water": Reading Jewish Femininity in Australia, (2006)
- Jennifer Pullman, Playing the Game: Cricket, the MCG and Change in Colonial Self-Image, 1860-1900, (2005)
- Leigh Boucher, Unsettled Men: Settler Colonialism, Whiteness and Masculinity in Victoria 1851 – 1886, (2005)