Maryanne Dever

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About

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 the Australian National University. She was previously an Associate Dean in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies & Gender Research at Monash University in Melbourne. She has held posts at the University of Sydney and the University of Hong Kong, as well as visiting posts at McGill University, University College London and the University of Tampere.

Her research interests encompass feminist literary & cultural studies and critical archival studies. Her latest research on the status of archived paper with the advent of digital technologies appears in the book Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page (2019). 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). The latter has since appeared as an edited book with Routledge and won a 2018 Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists.

Education

BA (Hons) University of Queensland

MA (Hons) University of Sydney

PhD University of Sydney

Blog Posts

Publications

Books and edited books

Parkins, I. and Dever, M. Eds. Fashion: New Feminist Essays. London: Routledge, 2020, 150pp.

Dever, M. Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page. Series: New Directions in Book History. London: Palgrave, 2019, xvii + 121pp.

Dever, M. Ed. Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research. London: Routledge, 2018, viii + 218pp.

Dever, M., Taylor, A. and Adkins L. Eds. Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure. London: Routledge, 2018, viii + 112pp.

Adkins, L., and Dever, M. Eds. Gender and Labour in New Times. London: Routledge, 2017, x + 106pp.

Adkins, L., and Dever, M. Eds. The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, x + 217pp. *Featured in the Times Higher Education ‘Books of the Year 2016’.

Dever, M., Newman, S. & Vickery, A. The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2009, 272pp.

Selected articles and chapters

Dever, M. ‘Papered over, or some observations on materiality and method’. For Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, eds. Out of the Closet and Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories (pp. 65-95). Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.

Dever, M. ‘Material Feminism: Monique Wittig’s Papers Acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University’, Australian Feminist Studies, 30.85 (2015), 299-303.

Dever, M. and L. Morra. ‘Literary Manuscripts, Materiality and the Digital’. Archives and Manuscripts 42.3 (2014), 223-226.

Dever, M. ‘Manuscripts and Photographs: Being in the Archive’, Special issue: ‘Literary Manuscripts, Materiality and the Digital’. Archives and Manuscripts 42.3 (2014), 282-94

Dever, M. ‘Archiving Feminism: Papers, Politics, Posterity’. Archivaria 77 (Spring 2014), 25–42.

Dever, M. ‘Provocations on the Pleasures of Archived Paper’. Archives and Manuscripts 41.3 (2013), 173 – 182.

Dever, M. and M. Henderson, ‘The Activist’s Archive: Merle Thornton’. Australian Feminist Studies 27.72 (2012), 221-23.

Dever, M., Newman, S. & Vickery, A. ‘The Intimate Archive’, Archives and Manuscripts 38.1 (2010), 94-137.

Dever, M. ‘Greta Garbo’s Foot or Sex, Socks and Letters’. Special issue on Embodiment and the Archival Imaginary. Australian Feminist Studies 25.64 (2010), 163-74.

Upcoming Talks and Conferences

Keynote: ‘Stardom and the Archive: An International Symposium’, University of Exeter, February 2020

‘Materiality and critical archive studies’. Techne Conflux & CMNH: Rethinking Archival Research and Practice, University of Brighton, 3 February 2020.

Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor

Australian National University