Professor Vera Mackie
| ARC Australian Professorial Fellow | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5950 |
| Email: | vmackie@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 354 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
| Academic Profile (click on the link for more information) | |
| Biography | |
| Research | |
| Publications | |
| Teaching | |
| Supervision | |
Biography
Vera Mackie has varied teaching, research, administrative and supervisory experience in the fields of Japanese language and linguistics, Japanese history, gender studies and cultural studies. In addition to previous positions at Swinburne, the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology, she has been a Visiting Professor at Victoria University, Ochanomizu University and Hitotsubashi University. She is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network, and is involved in international collaborative research projects with colleagues at Ochanomizu University and Hitotsubashi University.
Research
Vera's current research focuses on the Politics of Visual Culture in Modern Japan and the Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan.
Publications
Books
- Mackie, V. Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Mackie, V. Gurôbaruka to Jendâ Hyôshô (Globalisation and Representations of Gender), Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobô, 2003
- Mackie, V. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, paperback edition [originally published 1997]
Edited collections
- Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, edited by Anne Marie Hilsdon, Martha Macintyre, Vera Mackie & Maila Stivens, London: Routledge, 2006, paperback edition [originally published 2000]
- Relationships: Australia and Japan, 1870s–1950s, edited by Paul Jones and Vera Mackie, Melbourne: History Monographs Series, University of Melbourne, co-published with RMIT Publishing, 2001
Special Issue of Journal
- Special Issue on Gender, Governance and Security in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, No 15, May 2007, edited by Vera Mackie and Sarah Pinto [http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue15_contents.htm]
Edited conference proceedings
- Re-Searching Research Agendas: Women, Research and Publication in Higher Education, Proceedings of the ATN-WEXDEV Research Conference, edited by Barbara Groombridge and Vera Mackie, Perth: Learning Support Network, Curtin University of Technology, 2003
Chapters in Books
- Mackie, V. ‘The Transformation of the Gendered Discourse of Rights in Post-War Japan’, in Harry Scheiber and Laurent Mayali (ed.) Emerging Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law, Berkeley: The Robbins Collection, 2007
- Mackie, V. 'The Spectacle of Woman in Japanese Underground Theatre Posters', in The Ends of the 60s: Performance, Media and Contemporary Culture, edited by Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall, Sydney: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW and Performance Paradigm, 2006 [originally published in Performance Paradigm, No 2, 2006]
www.performanceparadigm.net - Mackie, V. ‘Creating Publics and Counterpublics on the Internet’, in Cybercultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, edited by David Bell, London: Routledge, 2006 [originally published in Japanese Cybercultures, edited by Nanette Gottlieb and Mark Mclelland, London: Routledge, 2003.]
- Mackie, V. ‘Embodied Citizens: Feminism in Imperial Japan’, in Women in Japanese History, edited by Gordon Daniels and Hiroko Tomida, London: Global Oriental Publishers, 2005
- Mackie, V. ‘Understanding through the Body: The Masquerades of Morimura Yasumasa and Mishima Yukio’, in Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan, edited by Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta, London: Routledge, 2005
- Mackie, V. ‘Japan’, in Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, edited by Barbara Caine, Ann Curthoys and Mary Spongberg, London: Palgrave, 2005
- Mackie, V. ‘Shifting the Axis: Feminism and the Transnational Imaginary’, in State/Nation/Transnation, edited by Brenda Yeoh et al, London: Routledge, 2004
- Mackie, V. ‘“Asia” in Everyday Life: Dealing with Difference in Contemporary Japan’, in Gender and Politics in the Asia Pacific: Agencies and Activisms, edited by Brenda Yeoh et al, London: Routledge, 2002
- Mackie, V. ‘Picturing Political Space in 1920s and 1930s Japan’, in Nation and Nationalism in Modern Japan, edited by Sandra Wilson, London: Routledge Curzon, 2002
- Mackie, V. ‘Citizenship, Embodiment and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan’, in Roger Goodman (ed.) Family and Social Policy in Japan, edited by Roger Goodman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Journal Articles
- Mackie, V. ‘Reimagining Governance and Security in the Asia Pacific Region’, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, No 15, May 2007, http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue15/mackie.htm
- Mackie, V. ‘Visualising the Modern Girl’, Joseigaku Kenkyûjo Nenpô, No 17, 2006–2007
- Mackie, V. 'The Spectacle of Woman in Japanese Underground Theatre Posters', Performance Paradigm, No 2, 2006 www.performanceparadig.net
- Mackie, V. ‘In Search of Innocence: Feminist Historians Debate the Legacy of Wartime Japan’, in Australian Feminist Studies, July 2005
- Mackie, V. ‘Evdokia Petrova’s Shoe’, in Lilith, 2005
- Mackie, V. ‘Afghan Nights’, in Meanjin, February 2003
- Mackie, V. ‘Faces of Feminism in Transnational Media Space’, in Jendâ Kenkyû/ Journal of Gender Studies, No 6, March 2003
- Mackie, V. ‘Academic Bodies in Mediated Space: Japan and Australia’, in Lilith, 2002
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Mackie, V. ‘Gazing on Whiteness in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Chijin no Ai’, Proceedings of the 74th Meeting of the Korea Association of Japanology, Seoul, February 2007
- Mackie, V. ‘Women Questioning the Present: The Jûgoshi Nêto Collective', in Across Time and Genre: Women’s Writing in Japan, edited by Janice Brown and Sonja Arntzen, Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2002
Teaching areas
131-539 Current Directions in Historical Research
Supervision
Vera Mackie supervises in the areas of modern Japanese history, gender and sexuality studies and cultural studies.