Associate Professor Kevin Foster
PhD (Monash University), MA (University of Saskatchewan), BA, Hons (University of Manchester)
Kevin Foster Curriculum Vitae [
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Biography
I was educated in the UK, Canada and Australia and received my Ph.D from Monash University where I have taught since 1995. The principal focus of my research has been on the construction and articulation of national identity in literature, media and film.
Research interests
Military-Media Relations
Cultural Representations of War
Censorship, Propaganda and War
War Photography
Cultural Representations of Latin America
Selected publications
- Foster, K. (2010) ‘Embedding Control: the Australian Military’s Influence on the Media’, Overland, Vol 198, Autumn, Pages 70-78.
- Foster, K. (2009) What are we doing in Afghanistan? : the military and the media at war North Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing.
- Foster, K. (2009) Lost worlds : Latin America and the imagining of empire London ; New York, Pluto
- Foster, K. (2007) ‘”Your Country Does Not Matter”: British and Irish Writers on the Spanish Civil War’, in Valis, N. edited Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War, New York, The Modern Language Association of America, Pages 206-219.
- Foster, K. (1999) Fighting fictions : war, narrative, and national identity. London, Pluto Press.