The Australian National University

Faculty Member, School of Cultural Inquiry

College of Arts and Social Sciences

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Kate Mitchell is a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. Her research is focused on nineteenth- and twentieth - century literary and cultural history with a particular interest in neo-Victorian fiction and historical recollection in fictional narratives. She has published her first monograph, History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and her articles on historical fiction have appeared in Neo-Victorian Studies and a number of edited collections. She is currently working with a team of German and Australian scholars on a collaborative project funded by DAAD-Go8 entitled ‘Memory and Migration: German-Australian Dialogues in the Humanities. Her contribution to the project examines a migration of the imagination, in which contemporary Australian historical novelists reimagine Germany’s past. Other current research includes a collection of essays entitled 'Reading the Represented Past', with Dr Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney). This collection examines the relationship between the reader and the represented past in British fiction since the eighteenth century, focusing on the intersection of historical representation, fictional
techniques, and reading practices in order to provide a clearer understanding of the reader’s role in negotiating the relationship between past and present as it is mediated by the literary text. Kate also serves on the editorial board of Humanities Research.

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