Maryanne Dever
Professor Maryanne Dever is joint Editor-in-Chief (with Lisa Adkins) of the journal Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis). She is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Digital) at ANU in Canberra.
She was previously Associate Dean (T & L) at UTS. She was previously Director of the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research at Monash University and President of the Australian Women's & Gender Studies Association (AWGSA). She has also held posts at the Univ. of Sydney and the Univ. of Hong Kong.
Her research interests encompass feminist literary & cultural studies and critical archival studies. Her current research is on archives, matter and materiality. This appears in her new book, 'Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page' (2019). She co-convenes, the 'archivefutures' research network. See: http://archivefutures.com/. She co-edited a special issue of 'Archives and Manuscripts' on 'Literary Archives, Materiality and the Digital' (2014) and one on 'Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research' for 'Australian Feminist Studies' (2017) which has since appeared as an edited book (Routledge 2019). She is also on the Editorial Board of the journal 'Archives and Manuscripts'.
She also has research interests in gender, work and higher education and has published widely on women's & gender studies. Recent co-edited collections: 'Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure' (2019), 'Gender and Labour in New Times' (Routledge 2017), and 'The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency' (Palgrave 2016) which was named in the Times Higher Education 'Books of the Year 2016'.
Selected recent papers and presentations:
Keynote: 'Britney Spears' Shopping List', Stardom and the Archive, University of Exeter, 8 February 2020.
'Surfacing the Page' (with J. Lorber Kasunic and K. Sweetapple), Big Ideas, The National Archives, Kew, London, 22 November 2017.
'Greta Garbo's Hand', Queer Curating, Queer Art, Queer Archives, Design, Architecture and Building, UTS, 18 October 2017.
‘Mourning and Materiality: Archiving Valentine Ackland’, Archival Afterlives: Post-war Poetry in English, 2017 John Rylands Research Institute Conference, Univ of Manchester, 27-29 June 2017.
‘Paper’s Intimate Affects’, Paper Trails Workshop, UCL, 19-21 June 2017.
Keynote: 'Thinking Inside the Box', Materiality and the Visual Arts Archive: Matter & Meaning, ARLIS + University of Brighton, 23 Sept 2016.
'All about Eve', Preservation and Rot, Centre for Archival Practice, Univ of Sheffield, 7 July 2016.
'What matters: Materiality and the potential of paper', The Experience of the Archive, 2016 Gerald Aylmer Seminar, IHR, Senate House, London, 29 April 2016.
'Valentine's Jacket', English Literary Heritage, Institute of English Studies, Univ of London, 18 September 2015.
'Feminism's Paper Trail', Christina Research Seminar, Univ of Helsinki, 27 January 2015.
'Feminism's Archive'. Public Lecture. Gender Institute, Feminist Theory Now Series, ANU, 24 September 2014.
'Eve Langley's Manuscript Cupboard', Perversions of Paper, Birkbeck College, 28 June 2014.
‘Rethinking Evidence: Archived Mess and Archival Method’, Sex + Gender + Archive, Archive Futures Pop-Up Workshop, Univ of Tampere, Finland, 9 May 2014.
‘Rethinking the Archive: The Properties of Paper’, Seminar, Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, Univ of Kent, 2 April 2014.
‘The Archived Page or Why I Want To Talk About Paper’, ICARUS Seminar, Department of Information Studies, UCL, 12 March 2014.
‘Hand in Glove: Archival Paperwork, Method and Materiality’, Material Properties, Slade Research Centre, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 28 February 2014.
Keynote: "The Pleasures of Paper: Five Provocations" at the Memornet Summer School, Univ of Tampere, Finland, 28-29 August 2012.
"Archiving Feminism: Paper, Politics, Posterity". Workshop: 'archive + feminism' at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill Univ, Montreal, 3 Feb 2012.
"The Private in the Public Archive". Revealing Privacy, Helsinki Collegium, 19-20 May 2011.
Keynote: "Archive, Memory, Materiality, Method". Memornet Summer School, Helsinki, Finland, 26-27 May 2011.
National and international research fellowships:
• Visiting Professor, University of Tampere, Finland (2015).
• Inaugural Gender Institute / Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University, Canberra (2014).
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2011-2012).
• Manning Clark House/Copyright Agency of Australia Fellowship, Canberra (2009).
• Visiting Scholar, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2008).
• Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada (2008).
• Harold White Fellowship, National Library of Australia, Canberra (1995).
She was previously Associate Dean (T & L) at UTS. She was previously Director of the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research at Monash University and President of the Australian Women's & Gender Studies Association (AWGSA). She has also held posts at the Univ. of Sydney and the Univ. of Hong Kong.
Her research interests encompass feminist literary & cultural studies and critical archival studies. Her current research is on archives, matter and materiality. This appears in her new book, 'Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page' (2019). She co-convenes, the 'archivefutures' research network. See: http://archivefutures.com/. She co-edited a special issue of 'Archives and Manuscripts' on 'Literary Archives, Materiality and the Digital' (2014) and one on 'Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research' for 'Australian Feminist Studies' (2017) which has since appeared as an edited book (Routledge 2019). She is also on the Editorial Board of the journal 'Archives and Manuscripts'.
She also has research interests in gender, work and higher education and has published widely on women's & gender studies. Recent co-edited collections: 'Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure' (2019), 'Gender and Labour in New Times' (Routledge 2017), and 'The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency' (Palgrave 2016) which was named in the Times Higher Education 'Books of the Year 2016'.
Selected recent papers and presentations:
Keynote: 'Britney Spears' Shopping List', Stardom and the Archive, University of Exeter, 8 February 2020.
'Surfacing the Page' (with J. Lorber Kasunic and K. Sweetapple), Big Ideas, The National Archives, Kew, London, 22 November 2017.
'Greta Garbo's Hand', Queer Curating, Queer Art, Queer Archives, Design, Architecture and Building, UTS, 18 October 2017.
‘Mourning and Materiality: Archiving Valentine Ackland’, Archival Afterlives: Post-war Poetry in English, 2017 John Rylands Research Institute Conference, Univ of Manchester, 27-29 June 2017.
‘Paper’s Intimate Affects’, Paper Trails Workshop, UCL, 19-21 June 2017.
Keynote: 'Thinking Inside the Box', Materiality and the Visual Arts Archive: Matter & Meaning, ARLIS + University of Brighton, 23 Sept 2016.
'All about Eve', Preservation and Rot, Centre for Archival Practice, Univ of Sheffield, 7 July 2016.
'What matters: Materiality and the potential of paper', The Experience of the Archive, 2016 Gerald Aylmer Seminar, IHR, Senate House, London, 29 April 2016.
'Valentine's Jacket', English Literary Heritage, Institute of English Studies, Univ of London, 18 September 2015.
'Feminism's Paper Trail', Christina Research Seminar, Univ of Helsinki, 27 January 2015.
'Feminism's Archive'. Public Lecture. Gender Institute, Feminist Theory Now Series, ANU, 24 September 2014.
'Eve Langley's Manuscript Cupboard', Perversions of Paper, Birkbeck College, 28 June 2014.
‘Rethinking Evidence: Archived Mess and Archival Method’, Sex + Gender + Archive, Archive Futures Pop-Up Workshop, Univ of Tampere, Finland, 9 May 2014.
‘Rethinking the Archive: The Properties of Paper’, Seminar, Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, Univ of Kent, 2 April 2014.
‘The Archived Page or Why I Want To Talk About Paper’, ICARUS Seminar, Department of Information Studies, UCL, 12 March 2014.
‘Hand in Glove: Archival Paperwork, Method and Materiality’, Material Properties, Slade Research Centre, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 28 February 2014.
Keynote: "The Pleasures of Paper: Five Provocations" at the Memornet Summer School, Univ of Tampere, Finland, 28-29 August 2012.
"Archiving Feminism: Paper, Politics, Posterity". Workshop: 'archive + feminism' at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill Univ, Montreal, 3 Feb 2012.
"The Private in the Public Archive". Revealing Privacy, Helsinki Collegium, 19-20 May 2011.
Keynote: "Archive, Memory, Materiality, Method". Memornet Summer School, Helsinki, Finland, 26-27 May 2011.
National and international research fellowships:
• Visiting Professor, University of Tampere, Finland (2015).
• Inaugural Gender Institute / Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University, Canberra (2014).
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2011-2012).
• Manning Clark House/Copyright Agency of Australia Fellowship, Canberra (2009).
• Visiting Scholar, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2008).
• Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada (2008).
• Harold White Fellowship, National Library of Australia, Canberra (1995).
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In an era when the metaphor of the archive is invoked to cover almost any kind of memory, collection or accumulation, it is important to re-examine what is entailed—politically and methodologically—in the practice of feminist archival research. This question is central not only to the renewed interest many disciplines are showing in empirical research in archives but also given the current explosion of online social and cultural data which has fundamentally transformed what we understand an archive to be. Contributors in this collection are keen to mark out what may be novel and what is enduring in the ways in which feminist thought and feminist practice frame archives. Importantly, they engage with archives in their historical and political complexity rather than treating them as simple repositories of source material. In this respect, contributors are keenly interested in what it means to archive particular materials, and not simply in what those materials may hold for feminist researchers. The collection features established and emerging feminist scholars and brings together interventions from across such disciplines as history, literature, modernist studies, cinema studies and law.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies.
This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies. The journal version can be viewed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cafs20/31/87?nav=tocList
Working and living in post-Fordism concerns risk and contingency. This collection identifies how the contingent contracting of post-Fordism is shaping new regulatory ideals for women including excessive attachments to work, intensive mothering, entrepreneurship and an investor subjectivity. Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever and their fellow authors map these often unattainable ideals as they operate across a range of working and living arrangements and in their classed and raced dimensions. Contributors examine how these ideals unfold and take shape in the demands of employability and work readiness, in the sub-contracting and outsourcing of labour, in the demands of affective labour, in the contours of home-based work and in the indebtedness that contingent working so often demands. The collection elaborates how the contingent contracting of post-Fordism is not only setting the terms of a new labour settlement but also rewriting the terms of the sexual contract.
Featured Book by Maryanne Dever
Journal Special Issue by Maryanne Dever
"In the field of literary studies, critical engagement with the materiality of archived artefacts has been rather limited and, as Johanna Drucker observes, ‘locked in a peculiar straight-jacket literalism’ characterised by ‘little actual skill in the undertaking’. The advent of the digital and the debates concerning the material status of digitised and born-digital collections, however, has brought a new intensity to reflections on the materially embodied status of traditional archival collections. Indeed, as various contributors to this special issue demonstrate, the arrival of digital technologies has provided a unique vantage point from which to theorise materiality anew and to address questions that were inadequately explored or unsuccessfully resolved in relation to traditional analogue sources and that we now recognise persist in relation to digital forms and formats. That is to say, these technologies have highlighted the assumptions and blind spots that have structured our existing practices and paradigms, pushing us to a fuller recognition, for example, about the relationship between matter and meaning and about the difference a specific medium makes. This is what Katherine Hayles identifies as the ‘something gained’ in an area of discussion often characterised by anxious discourses of ‘loss’..."
DOWNLOAD THE TABLE OF CONTENTS BELOW
ACCESS THE INTRODUCTION VIA THE LINK BELOW
You might also like to see the related book, "Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page" elsewhere on this site.
Selected Papers on archives and materiality by Maryanne Dever
Archive Futures Research Network by Maryanne Dever
Making Community Archives Sustainable: Safeguarding the long-term future of popular music’s material culture
SARAH BAKER (Sociology, Griffith University)
Dead Weight: Personal archives and the material culture of death
MARYANNE DEVER (Humanities & Social Sciences, UTS)
‘Girl Eating a Sandwich’: Media excavations for experiential design and interpretation practice
SARAH BARNS (ICS, Western Sydney University)
For full abstracts and further information on the Archive Futures research network, visit http://archivefutures.com/death-and-life/
‘Distant reading’ as ‘close reading’; Or, how to escape hermetic hermeneutics in approaching digital archives
KATHERINE BODE (Centre for Digital Humanities Research, ANU)
Memory and Oblivion: The Photographic Work of Anne Ferran and Rosângela Rennó
SUSAN BEST (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University)
Mass Observation as Sociology’s Archive
LISA ADKINS (Sociology, University of Newcastle)
For more information about the workshop or the Archive Futures research network, visit http://archivefutures.com/events/pop-up-workshops/close-up/
The network is defined by an evolving set of questions:
* What are archives and what can they do?
* What can we do in and with archives?
* What happens to the stubborn materiality of archived documents in the face of new digital storage and distribution technologies?
In an era when the metaphor of the archive is invoked to cover almost any kind of memory, collection or accumulation, it is important to re-examine what is entailed—politically and methodologically—in the practice of feminist archival research. This question is central not only to the renewed interest many disciplines are showing in empirical research in archives but also given the current explosion of online social and cultural data which has fundamentally transformed what we understand an archive to be. Contributors in this collection are keen to mark out what may be novel and what is enduring in the ways in which feminist thought and feminist practice frame archives. Importantly, they engage with archives in their historical and political complexity rather than treating them as simple repositories of source material. In this respect, contributors are keenly interested in what it means to archive particular materials, and not simply in what those materials may hold for feminist researchers. The collection features established and emerging feminist scholars and brings together interventions from across such disciplines as history, literature, modernist studies, cinema studies and law.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies.
This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies. The journal version can be viewed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cafs20/31/87?nav=tocList
Working and living in post-Fordism concerns risk and contingency. This collection identifies how the contingent contracting of post-Fordism is shaping new regulatory ideals for women including excessive attachments to work, intensive mothering, entrepreneurship and an investor subjectivity. Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever and their fellow authors map these often unattainable ideals as they operate across a range of working and living arrangements and in their classed and raced dimensions. Contributors examine how these ideals unfold and take shape in the demands of employability and work readiness, in the sub-contracting and outsourcing of labour, in the demands of affective labour, in the contours of home-based work and in the indebtedness that contingent working so often demands. The collection elaborates how the contingent contracting of post-Fordism is not only setting the terms of a new labour settlement but also rewriting the terms of the sexual contract.
"In the field of literary studies, critical engagement with the materiality of archived artefacts has been rather limited and, as Johanna Drucker observes, ‘locked in a peculiar straight-jacket literalism’ characterised by ‘little actual skill in the undertaking’. The advent of the digital and the debates concerning the material status of digitised and born-digital collections, however, has brought a new intensity to reflections on the materially embodied status of traditional archival collections. Indeed, as various contributors to this special issue demonstrate, the arrival of digital technologies has provided a unique vantage point from which to theorise materiality anew and to address questions that were inadequately explored or unsuccessfully resolved in relation to traditional analogue sources and that we now recognise persist in relation to digital forms and formats. That is to say, these technologies have highlighted the assumptions and blind spots that have structured our existing practices and paradigms, pushing us to a fuller recognition, for example, about the relationship between matter and meaning and about the difference a specific medium makes. This is what Katherine Hayles identifies as the ‘something gained’ in an area of discussion often characterised by anxious discourses of ‘loss’..."
DOWNLOAD THE TABLE OF CONTENTS BELOW
ACCESS THE INTRODUCTION VIA THE LINK BELOW
You might also like to see the related book, "Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page" elsewhere on this site.
Making Community Archives Sustainable: Safeguarding the long-term future of popular music’s material culture
SARAH BAKER (Sociology, Griffith University)
Dead Weight: Personal archives and the material culture of death
MARYANNE DEVER (Humanities & Social Sciences, UTS)
‘Girl Eating a Sandwich’: Media excavations for experiential design and interpretation practice
SARAH BARNS (ICS, Western Sydney University)
For full abstracts and further information on the Archive Futures research network, visit http://archivefutures.com/death-and-life/
‘Distant reading’ as ‘close reading’; Or, how to escape hermetic hermeneutics in approaching digital archives
KATHERINE BODE (Centre for Digital Humanities Research, ANU)
Memory and Oblivion: The Photographic Work of Anne Ferran and Rosângela Rennó
SUSAN BEST (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University)
Mass Observation as Sociology’s Archive
LISA ADKINS (Sociology, University of Newcastle)
For more information about the workshop or the Archive Futures research network, visit http://archivefutures.com/events/pop-up-workshops/close-up/
The network is defined by an evolving set of questions:
* What are archives and what can they do?
* What can we do in and with archives?
* What happens to the stubborn materiality of archived documents in the face of new digital storage and distribution technologies?
The Perversions of Paper newspaper which includes the programme and speakers can be downloaded below.
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