Dr Sally Newman
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Email: Sally.Newman@arts.monash.edu.au
Room W11.43 11th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Sally Newman is a recent graduate (PhD) of the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research and is currently employed as a research assistant on special academic projects in the School of Political and Social Inquiry.
Research
Sally’s research is in the history of sexualities and emotions with a focus on the ways in which the archive (as a material and conceptual entity), is deployed to provide ‘evidence’ of desire, sex, love, relationships and/or identity; and how this shapes particular historical narratives in different national contexts. She is interested in what Dominick LaCapra has termed the ‘transferential relation’ that exists between the historian and those objects of the past that she choses to love or become possessed by, and the ways in which these often-unconscious investments in particular ways of seeing profoundly shape one's research and writing.
Sally has been invited to participate in the ‘Emotional Communities, Emotional Styles Workshop’ hosted by the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Her new book, The Intimate Archive (co-authored with Maryanne Dever and Ann Vickery) appeared June 2009.
Publications
Articles and other contributions to refereed journals
- Sally Newman (2010) ‘Sites of Desire: Reading the Lesbian Archive’ in Australian Feminist Studies. Special issue on ‘Embodiment and the Archival Imaginary’ (forthcoming 2010).
- Sally Newman (2007) ‘Flirting with the Past: A Survey of Current Trends in the History of Sexuality’ in Hecate, Vol. 33, No. 2, 159–63.
- Sally Newman (2005) ‘The Archival Traces of Desire: Vernon Lee’s Failed Sexuality and the Interpretation of Letters in Lesbian History’ in Journal of the History of Sexuality Special Issue on Theory, Methods, and Praxis, Vol. 14, Nos. 1–2, pp. 51–75.
- Sally Newman (2003) ‘Lesbian Historiography, or A Talk about the “Sweaty Sheet Fantasies of Certain Modern Tribades”’ in Eras: School of Historical Studies Online Journal, Monash University, Edition 5 http://www.arts.monash.edu/publications/eras/edition-5/newmanarticle.php
- Sally Newman (2002) ‘Silent Witness? Aileen Palmer and the Problem of Evidence in Lesbian History’ in Women’s History Review, Oxford, UK, Vol. 11, No.3, pp.505–530.
- Sally Newman (2000) ‘Body of Evidence: Aileen Palmer’s Textual Lives’ in Hecate, Vol.26 no.1, pp.10–38.
Encyclopaedia Entries
- Sally Newman (2008) ‘Dance’ (67–8), ‘Romantic Friendship’ (217–8); ‘Sexlessness’ (228–9) ‘Spinsters’ (240–42), and ‘Theatre’ (246–8), in Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship & Sexuality Through History Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century, Edited by Susan Mumm, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Reviews
- 2008 - Review of Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, for the Journal of Politics and Culture Online Journal Issue 2: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=661
- 2005 - ‘Review Essay: Lesbian and Gay History’, in Women’s History Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 133–139.
- 2003 - Review of Dickinson Electronic Archives for Women Writers—An E-Zine: http://www.womenwriters.net/may2003/dea.html
- 2002 - Review of Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998 for Politics & Culture Online Journal, Issue 2: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=160
- 2001 - Review of Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1998, for Politics & Culture Online Journal, Issue 2: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=100
Professional Profile
Sally is a member of the following organisations:
- Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association
- Australian Historical Association
- The Australian Network for Research in Women’s History
- Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, New York