Dr Mary Tomsic
| Senior Tutor/ Lecturer | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5969 |
| Email: | mtomsic@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 344 West History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
| Academic Profile (click on the link for more information) | |
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Research
Mary Tomsic has a PhD in History from the University of Melbourne. Her thesis is titled Beyond the silver screen: Women's involvement with filmmaking and film culture in Australia 1920-1995. It investigates the array of often hidden ways women have creatively worked with film in Australia. Her current research focuses on a cultural history of amateur filmmaking. It aims to explore how this modern form of recording and remembering developed in the Australian context, as well as the range of meanings that home movies held for home movie-makers and viewers. Mary’s broader research interests include representations of identity, film and history, constructions of gender and sexuality as well as understandings of popular culture.
Publications
- M. Tomsic, ‘“we WILL invent ourselves, the age of the New Image is at hand”: Creating, learning and talking with Australian feminist filmmaking’, Australian Feminist Studies vol. 22 issue 53 (2007): 287-306
- M. Tomsic, ‘Feminist History: Back to the Future’, Lilith 15 (2006): 4pp
- M. Tomsic, ‘Melbourne Home Movies’, NewMatilda.com, A different tune Magazine 66 (30 November 2005) www.newmatilda.com/home/articledetail.asp?ArticleID=1163.
- M. Tomsic, ‘WIFT Works for Women: a short history on how to marry filmmaking with feminism’, Metro, 145 (2005): 112-116
- M. Tomsic, ‘Sex Work (Part Two): A Postgraduate’s Perspective on Teaching Sexuality’, Traffic 6 (2005): 134-138
- M. Tomsic, ‘Women’s memories of cinema going: More than “the only thing left to do” in Victoria’s Western District’, History Australia 1, 2, (December 2004): 06/1-12
- M. Tomsic, ‘Letters, Films and Friends: Women’s Involvement in the Victorian Film Society Movement’, Lilith 13 (2004): 80-92
- M. Tomsic, ‘Disparate Voices? Framlingham as a site of resistance’, 39-55 in Tracey Banivanua Mar and Julie Evans (eds) Writing Colonial Histories: Comparative Perspectives, Melbourne: History Department, University of Melbourne, 2002
Teaching
131-033 A History of Sexualities
131-551 Representations of Gender
Supervision
- Lucy Holt (Hons) The Truth of the Corpus, The autopsy and autobiography of a nineteenth-century pseudohermaphrodite (co-supervised)
- Kate Esler (Hons) The ‘Hottentot Venus’: A Visual History