Arts Faculty News

Louise North

Dr Louise North, newly appointed Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Journalism, has just published her first book with US publisher Hampton Press.

The Gendered Newsroom: How Journalists Experience the Changing World of Media is a vivid exploration of the gendered production of news–and in particular the experiences of women–in the Australian print news media.

The book engages with the question of how gender shapes newsroom culture and in so doing is concerned with production practices and cultural processes. It considers the dilemmas, constraints, negotiations and compromises which shape journalists’ day-to-day routines.

It probes specific questions about gender in asking:
What is journalism and what is a journalist?
How is newsroom culture embodied?
How do female journalists experience newsroom culture?
How has global industry change impacted on the workplace and what does this mean for journalists?
How does feminism get played out in the newsroom?
What is the relationship of newsroom culture to the content of the news?

The Gendered Newsroom

The author’s astute empirical research provides a distinctive account of how Australian print news media journalists experience newsroom culture.

The in-depth interviews with journalists ranging in age and industry experience reveal a complex culture coming to terms with dramatic industry change.

US academic Carolyn Byerly says the book “scopes out new terrain, and it sets a new standard not just for feminist media scholarship but for all critical research on media. I have seen no other author more willing to probe so many different aspects of news production”.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, author Professor Jenny Hocking, publisher Louise Adler, Gough & Margaret Whitlam

The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched Professor Jenny Hocking’s new book, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, volume one of a two part biography of Gough Whitlam, on 6 November. Gough Whitlam, Margaret Whitlam and Justice Michael Kirby were among the guests entertained by the Prime Minister’s address in the Jubilee Room of NSW Parliament House.

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The iconic female: goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett

The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: a mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, a divine lover, a protector and/or a bloodthirsty ogress. The more we discover about her, the more teasingly complex and multivalent the Devi appears. She is both constant and changing, loved and feared, worshipped and forgotten only to be re-discovered and worshipped.

In this book, for the first time, ten Australian researchers working on many aspects of the Devi have come together and offered, in a single collection, new research on the divine female. This book is the beginning of a renewed quest for the iconic Devi who continues to emerge in her many, unpredictably powerful forms.

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Bruce Beresford, Prof Bruce Steele and Prof Clive Probyn

Two Monash University academics have completed a 14-year project to publish the complete works of Henry Handel Richardson (1870 -1946) with a new edition of her epic trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

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A new book by Monash University musicologists, which examines youth orchestras within Australia and throughout the world, will have its official launch next week.

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Adib Khan

Embracing intellectual freedom without trepidation is how Adib Khan consistently succeeds in his career as an author.

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Rights for Aborigines

Associate Professor Bain Attwood won the John and Patricia Ward History Prize for his book ‘Rights for Aborigines’ . His research has been described as breaking new ground in documenting the close relationship that developed between Indigenous political leaders, white activists and humanitarians on both sides in the struggle against racial discrimination. Read the rest of this entry »

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Car Wars

Professor Graeme Davison from School of Historical Studies won the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction for his book ‘Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities’. He has been described as Australia’s most imaginative social historian. Read the rest of this entry »