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Anna Johnston

Anna Johnston is Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and co-editor, with Helen Gilbert, of In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire (Peter Lang, 2002); she has also published widely on nineteenth-century missionary writing and on travel writing. Her current research examines travel writing about Australia in the nineteenth century. She is also currently working on the Australian magazine Walkabout (published between 1934 and 1974), with Mitchell Rolls.

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Events

  • Author Talk: The Remarkable Greig Sisters by Iola Mathews

    RHSV 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    The Greig sisters arrived in Melbourne in 1889 in search of a university education. Jane and Janet would be among the first women doctors in Australia, and Flos became the...

  • Canberra Writers Festival: Climate, Chaos & COP 31

    Senate Chamber | Museum of Australian Democracy Old Parliament House 18 King George Terrace, Canberra, ACT

    With geopolitical earthquakes shaking our world – what can we expect at COP31 in November? Thom Woodroofe, Clive Hamilton and Miki Perkins explore the underlying philosophies driving world powers and...

  • Canberra Writers Festival: Testing the Body

    Liangis Theatre, National Portrait Gallery King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT

    Writing about how bodies are tested – through terrible abrupt accident, gruelling ultra-marathon and the simple reality of ageing – can open profound questions about what matters in life. Join...