Doctor Helen Bones
Adjunct Fellow,
Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Biography
I graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) in 2005 majoring in History and English. In 2011 I completed a PhD on New Zealand literary history and colonial writing networks at the University of Canterbury. While writing my thesis, I spent a year at Christ Church, Oxford as the inaugural recipient of the Edward Gibbon Wakefield Doctoral Scholarship.
Until February 2019 I worked with Dr Jason Ensor and the Digital Humanities Research Group/University Library on the ARCHivER project (Angus & Robertson Collection for Humanities and Education Research), which was funded by the Australian National Data Service. For this, we curated a digital archive of manuscript material relating to iconic Australian publisher Angus & Robertson, which is housed at the State Library of New South Wales. We aimed to open up this high value paper-based collection using digital techniques, including structured metadata and linked data tags based on a controlled vocabulary.
The resultant 'Linked Archives' tool can be accessed here: https://linkedarchives.com/metadata/, and my paper discussing the project, methodology and applications was published in 2019 by History Compass: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hic3.12522
Recent publications include:
""A book is a book, all the world over": New Zealand and the Colonial Writing World 1890-1945", Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45:5 (2015), pp..861-881.
"New Zealand and the Tasman Writing World", History Australia, 10:3 (2013), pp. 129-148.
2017. "Falling between the cracks: Dora Wilcox and the neglected Tasman literary world", Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, no. 2, np, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10937.
My book, The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand writers and the colonial world, was published in March 2018 with Otago University Press.
https://westernsydney.academia.edu/HelenBones
This information has been contributed by Doctor Bones.
Qualifications
- PhD University of Canterbury (NZ)
- BA University of Canterbury (NZ)
- BA(Eng&Hist) University of Canterbury (NZ)
Professional Memberships
- BSANZ (2016 - 2020)
- Professional Historians Association (NSW) (2020 - 2020)
Interests
- Australian literature
- Colonial Histories
- Digital Humanities
- History - Australian-Pre-colonial and Post-colonial
- New Zealand literary history
- Transnational History
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Contact
| Email: | H.Bones@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Location: | EN.LG.01 Parramatta |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 100958 Australia and the World, 2014
- 100958 Australia and the World, 2015
- 100958 Australia and the World, 2016
- 101910 Global History, 2013
- 102412 Global Digital Futures, 2018
- 102516 Australian History Around Us, 2019
Publications
Books
- Bones, H. (2018), 'The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World', : Otago University Press 9781988531175.
Journal Articles
- Bones, H. (2019), 'Linked digital archives and the historical publishing world : an Australasian perspective', History Compass, vol 17, no 3 .
- Bones, H. (2017), 'Falling between the cracks : Dora Wilcox and the neglected Tasman writing world', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol 2017, no 2 .
- Bones, H. (2016), 'Travel writers and traveling writers in Australasia : responses to travel literatures and the problem of authenticity', Journeys, vol 17, no 2 , pp 74 - 94.
- Bones, H. (2016), 'A journey to Australia : travel, media, and the politics of representation', Journeys, vol 17, no 2 , pp 1 - 4.
- Bones, H. (2015), ''A book is a book, all the world over' : New Zealand and the colonial writing world 1890-1945', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol 43, no 5 , pp 861 - 881.
- Bones, H. (2013), 'New Zealand and the Tasman writing world, 1890-1945', History Australia, vol 10, no 3 , pp 129 - 148.
Current Projects
| Title: | Digital Humanities in the Indian Rim |
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| Western Researchers: | Rachel Hendery, Hart Cohen and Helen Bones |
| Years: | 2019-03-15 - 2021-03-15 |
| ID: | P00025596 |
Previous Projects
| Title: | Trans-Tasman educational publishing networks and Australian literary nation-building |
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| Western Researchers: | Helen Bones |
| Years: | 2017-06-01 - 2018-05-03 |
| ID: | P00024009 |
