Dr Associate Professor Rosanne Kennedy
Areas of expertise
- Law And Society 180119
- Biography 210304
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Postcolonial Studies 200211
- Human Rights And Justice Issues 220104
- Legal Theory, Jurisprudence And Legal Interpretation 180122
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Literary Theory 200525
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History 210301
- Cultural Theory 200204
- Literary Studies 2005
Research interests
Trauma, memory and witnessing in Australia and transnational contexts; Holocaust
studies; Stolen Generations; life-writing studies; feminist theory; cultural theory; literary
theory; 19th and 20th century novel; women writers; law and literature; gender and
modernity.
Biography
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Supervision, ANU.
2015 CASS Award for Excellence in Supervision, College of Arts and Social Sciences.
2011 Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Excellence Cluster, Institute for Advanced Studies, Konstanz University.
2006 Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, Cambridge Univ.
2006 Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Clare Hall, Cambridge.
1989-90 Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Instructor of Literature, Duke University.
1988-89 Fuller-Perdue Fellowship, Duke Law School.
1984-85 Fulbright Fellowship, Cambridge University.
Researcher's projects
Member, Network in Transnational Memory Studies (NiTMES), hosted by Utrecht University (see http://www.utrechtmemorystudies.nl/nitmes/)
Go8/DADD project with Konstanz University, "Memory and Its Media" (Team Leader)
ALTC Project, (2010-2012) Building Reading Resilience: Developing A Skills Based Approach to Literary Studies (Team Leader)
Current student projects
Tim Sargent, PhD candidate, Melancholia and Masculinity in Critical and Queer Theory
Tina Dixson, PhD candidate, ‘What does it mean to be a queer refugee woman? Collective discovery of lived experiences through trauma and agency’
Sally Zwartz, PhD candidate, The Role of story in the transmission of the survivor’s voice at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Siall Waterbright, PhD candidate, A Century of Childcare: history, policy and a graphic novel
Alison Wolfe, PhD candidate, Children in Queer Theory and Young Adult Fantasy Literature
Past student projects
PhDs Supervised and Awarded
Vihanga Perera, PhD (2021), The Role of Narratives of Protest against State-mediated Violence in Sri Lanka, with Reference to the Armed Insurgency of 1987-90
Bianca Williams, PhD (2021), From Redstockings to Reconciliation: A Transnational Feminist Study of Pregnancy Belly Casting Practices,
Jonathon Zapasnik, PhD (2019), Precarious Proximities: A Symptomological Reading of Intimacy in Anglophone HIV/AIDS Life Writing
Sulamith Graefenstein, PhD (2018), A Transnational Study of Human Rights Museums
Jo Pavianini, PhD (2017) The Poetics of Reconciliation - Seamus Heaney as Public Intellectual
Susan Thwaites (2017), Visualising the Internal: Cold Mountain from novel to film
Steph Kizimchuk PhD (2017), Mizrahi Memoir: Trauma, Belonging and National Identity
Linda Devereaux, PhD (2015) Narrating a congo missionary childhood (1958 - 1964): memory and meaning examined through a creative non-fiction text and exegesis (superivised 2009-2012).
Sara Lyons, PhD (2012) Cold Vision: A Novel and Exegesis Inspired by ‘The Snow Queen’
Adele Morey, PhD (2010) Celebrity: A Cultural Analysis of the Representation, Production and Consumption of Celebrity Stories
Kristen Davis, PhD (Dec 2009) The Gay Gang Murders in Sydney: A Discourse Analysis
Rebecca Devitt, PhD (Dec 2008) The Politics of the Stolen Generations – Changing Government Policy
Susan Andrews, PhD (April 2008) Holocaust Remembrance in Australia: Gender, Memory and Identity Between the Local and the Transnational
Jennifer McFarlane, PhD (May 2006) An Alternative Modernism: the Theosophical Society.
Melinda Mawson, PhD (May 2005) Speaking of Port Arthur: the Making of a Massacre.
Shady Cosgrove, PhD (2002) The Fictional Character as a Site of Agency: A Theoretical and Practical Exploration
Jan McKinley Wilson PhD (2002) ‘You Took Our Children’: Aboriginal Narratives of Separation in New South Wales 1977-1997
Catherine Styles, PhD (2000) An Other Place: the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean Framework
Catriona Elder, PhD (1999) Dreams and Nightmares of a 'White Australia': the discourse of assimilation in selected works of fiction from the 1950s and 1960s
Christine Owen, PhD (1998) The Female Crusoe: feminine transformations of identity in the castaway narrative
Publications
- Kennedy Rosanne 2021, “Guantanamo Diary as World(ly) Testimony: Witnessing the War on Terror”, Cambridge Companion to the History of World Literature. Ed. Debjani Ganguly, Cambridge: Cambridge U P.
- Kennedy, Rosanne and McCann, Hannah 2020, 'Splitting from Halley: Doing Justice to Race, Unwantedness, and Testimony in Campus Sexual Assault', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46.1: 79-102.
- Black, Shameem, Kennedy, Rosanne & McCann, Hannah 2020, 'Echoes and Silences: #MeToo's Reverberations', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 35, no. 105, pp. 239-243.
- Whitlock, G & Kennedy, R 2020, 'The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness', in E Cox, S Durrant, D Farrier, L Stonebridge & A Woolley (ed.), Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 480-498.
- Kennedy, A & Graefenstein, S 2019, 'From the Transnational to the Intimate: Multidirectional Memory, the Holocaust and Colonial Violence in Australia and Beyond', International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 403-422.
- Kennedy, R 2019, 'Book Review: Rev. of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives, LEIGH GILMORE Columba University Press, 2017', Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 362-366.
- Kennedy, R 2018, 'Reparative transnationalism: The friction and fiction of remembering in Sierra Leone', Memory Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 342-354pp.
- Craps, S, Crownshaw, R, Wenzel, J et al 2018, 'Memory studies and the Anthropocene: A roundtable', Memory Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 498-515pp.
- Kennedy, R 2017, 'Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative', in Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen (ed.), Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies, Berghahn Books, United States, pp. 47-64pp.
- Kennedy, R 2017, 'Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction: colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in Kim Scott's: That Deadman Dance', in Ursula K Heise, Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 268-277pp.
- Kennedy, R 2017, 'Reading Prosthetic Memory through a New Materialist Lens: A Response to Stuart Murray', Parallax, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 453-457.
- Kennedy, R 2017, 'Sally Morgan's My Place: From the National to the Transnational', in Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff (ed.), Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, The Modern Language Association of America, New York United States, pp. 210-222pp.
- Kennedy, R & Nugent, M, eds, 2016, Australian Humanities Review, issue 59, May 2016, Special Section.
- Kennedy, R & Nugent, M 2016, 'Scales of Memory: Reflections on an Emerging Concept', Australian Humanities Review, vol. April/May 2016, no. 59, pp. 61-76.
- Kennedy, R 2016, 'Orbits, Mobilities, Scales: Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance as Transcultural Remembrance', Australian Humanities Review, vol. April/May 2016, no. 59, pp. 114-135.
- Kennedy, R, Leane, J, McGrath, A et al 2016, 'Roundtable: Message from Mungo and the Scales of Memory', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 59, no. 59, pp. 247-259.
- Kennedy, R 2016, 'Reflections on Post-Apology Australia: From a Poetics of Reparation to a Poetics of Survival', in Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (ed.), Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Germany, pp. 194-212.
- Douglas, K, Barnett, T, Poletti, A et al 2016, 'Building reading resilience: re-thinking reading for the literary studies classroom', Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 254-266.
- Poletti, A, Seaboyer, J, Kennedy, R et al 2016, 'The affects of not reading: Hating characters, being bored, feeling stupid', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 231-247.
- Kennedy, R 2015, 'Preface to "Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds"', in Stef Craps (ed.), Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. xii-xvii.
- Kennedy, R 2014, 'Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere', in Chiara De Cesari and Ann Rigney (ed.), Transnational Memory Circulation, Articulation, Scales, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, pp. 51-78.
- Kennedy, R 2014, 'Affecting Evidence: Edith Thompson's Epistolary Archive', The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 15-34.
- Kennedy, R 2013, 'Soul music dreaming: The Sapphires, the 1960s and transnational memory', Memory Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 331-344.
- Kennedy, R, Zapasnik, J, McCann, H et al 2013, 'All Those Little Machines: Assemblage as Transformative Theory', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 55, no. 2013, pp. 45 - 66.
- Kennedy, R 2013, 'Memory, History and the Law: Testimony and collective memory in Holocaust and Stolen Generations trials', in Joan Tumblety (ed.), Memory and History: Understanding memory as source and subject, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 50-67.
- Kennedy, R and Radstone, S 2013, 'Memory Up Close: Memory Studies in Australia', Memory Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1-8.
- Radstone, S and Kennedy, R 2013, eds. 'Memory Up Close: Memory Studies in Australia', Special Issue, Memory Studies, vol. 6, no. 3.
- Kennedy, R 2012, 'Humanity's Footprint: Reading Rings of Saturn and Palestinian Walks in an Anthropocene Era', Biography - an interdisciplinary quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 170-189.
- Kennedy, R 2011, 'AN AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVE OF FEELINGS The Sorry Books Campaign and the Pedagogy of Compassion', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 26, no. 69, pp. 257-279.
- Kennedy, R & Whitlock, G 2011, 'WITNESSING, TRAUMA AND SOCIAL SUFFERING: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES INTRODUCTION SPECIAL ISSUE', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 26, no. 69, pp. 251-255.
- Kennedy, R & Whitlock, G 2011, 'Australian Feminist Studies Special Issue: Witnessing, Trauma and Social Suffering: Feminist Perspectives', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 26, no. 69.
- Kennedy, R 2011, 'Australian Trials of Trauma: The Stolen Generations in Human Rights, Law, and Literature', Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 333-355.
- Kennedy, R 2011, 'Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives', in Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller (ed.), Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory, Columbia University Press, New York, USA and Chichester, West Sussex UK, pp. 88-104.
- Kennedy, R 2011, 'Feminist Theory', in Peter Melville Logan (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Novel, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sussex, England, 5 pp.
- Kennedy, R 2011, 'Gender Theory', in Peter Melville Logan (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Novel, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sussex, England, 5 pp.
- R Kennedy 2010, 'The Narrator as Witness: Testimony, Trauma and Narrative Form in My Place', The AustLit Anthology of Criticism, ed. Leigh Dale and Linda Hale, St Lucia, Qld: AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, http://www.austlit.edu.au/anthology/index#contents. Orig. pub. 1997, Meridian, Vol. 16, no. 2: 235-260.
- Kennedy, R, Bell, L & Emberley, J, eds, 2009, Humanities Research Vol XV. No. 3. 2009 Decolonising Testimony: On the Possibilities and Limits of Witnessing.
- Kennedy, R 2009, 'In an era of stalled reconciliation: the uncanny witness of Ray Lawrence's Jindabyne', Humanities Research, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 107-126.
- Kennedy, R, Bell, L & Emberley, J 2009, 'Decolonising testimony: on the possibilities and limits of witnessing', Humanities Research, vol. XV, no. 3, pp. 1-10.
- Kennedy, R 2008, 'Constructing and Contesting the Human: Life Narrative in a Globalised World', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 57, pp. 423-425.
- Kennedy, R 2008, 'Subversive Witnessing: Mediating Indigenous Testimony in Australian cultural and legal institutions', Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1&2, pp. 58-75.
- Kennedy, R 2008, 'Vulnerable Children, Disposable Mothers: Holocaust and Stolen Generations Memoirs of Childhood', Life Writing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 161-184.
- Kennedy, R 2008, 'Mortgaged Futures: Trauma, Subjectivity, and the Legacies of Colonialism in TsiTsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not', Studies in the Novel, vol. XL, no. Special Issue Spring Summer 1&2, pp. 86-107.
- Connor, J, Greig, A & Kennedy, R 2007, 'Writing the Journal Article', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 91-102.
- Kennedy, R 2007, 'The Media and the Death Penalty: The Limits of Sentimentality, the Power of Abjection', Humanities Research, vol. XIV, no. 2, pp. 29-47.
- Kennedy, R 2004, 'The Affective Work of Stolen Generations Testimony: From the Archives to the Classroom', Biography - an interdisciplinary quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 48-77.
- Bennett, J & Kennedy, R 2003, 'Introduction [to World Memory Personal Trajectories in Global Time]', in Jill Bennett and Rosanne Kennedy (ed.), World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Hampshire, United Kingdom, pp. 1-15.
- Kennedy, A & Wilson, T 2003, 'Constructing Shared Histories: Stolen Generations Testimony, Narrative Therapy and Address', in Jill Bennett and Rosanne Kennedy (ed.), World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Hampshire, United Kingdom, pp. 119-139.
- Bennett, J & Kennedy, R, eds, 2003, World Memory Personal Trajectories in Global Time, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
- Kennedy, A 2002, 'Legal Sensations: Sexuality, Textuality and Evidence in a Victorian Murder Trial', in Margaret Thornton (ed.), Romancing the Tomes: Popular Culture, Law and Feminism, Cavendish Publishing Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 69-86.
- Kennedy, R 2002, 'Stolen Generations testimony: trauma, historiography, and the question of truth', Aboriginal History, vol. 25, pp. 116-131.
- Kennedy, R 2000, 'Passion or Profession: PhDs and Alternative Careers in Australia and the United States', Profession, vol. 2000, pp. 75-88.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Memory and Its Media (Primary Investigator)
- Family, Violence and Honour: the Walworth Murder (Secondary Investigator)
- Building Reading Resilience: Developing a Skills-Based Approach to Literary Studies (Primary Investigator)
