Professor Anna Johnston
Director, Indigenous Engagement
School of Communication and Arts
3365 7175
Books
Johnston, Anna (2023). The antipodean laboratory: making colonial knowledge, 1770-1870. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009186896
Rolls, Mitchell and Johnston, Anna (2016). Travelling home, Walkabout Magazine and mid-twentieth-century Australia. London, United Kingdom: Anthem Press.
Johnston, Anna (2011). The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture, and Power in Colonial New South Wales. Crawley, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia.
Johnston, Anna (2003). Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511550324
Book Chapters
Johnston, Anna (2023). Exile and elegy: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and colonial verse. Victorian verse: The poetics of everyday life. (pp. 103-121) edited by Lee Behlman and Olivia Loksing Moy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-29696-3_6
Johnston, Anna (2023). Mapping Massacres: Art, History and Artefacts in Judy Watson’s the names of places. Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. (pp. 207-216) edited by Angela Wanhalla, Lyndall Ryan and Camille Nurka. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Johnston, Anna (2022). Europe’s Other? Academic Discourse on the Pacific as a Cultural Space. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean. (pp. 70-97) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108226875.006
Johnston, Anna and Webby, Elizabeth (2021). “Proud of Contributing Its Quota to the Original Literature of the Colony”: An Introduction to Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and Her Writing. Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier. (pp. 1-23) edited by Anna Johnston and Elizabeth Webby. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University PRess.
Johnston, Anna (2021). The Poetry of the Archive: Locating Eliza Hamilton Dunlop. Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier. (pp. 25-50) edited by Anna Johnston and Elizabeth Webby. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press.
Johnston, Anna (2019). Australian travel writing. The Cambridge history of travel writing. (pp. 267-282) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316556740.018
Johnston, Anna (2018). Travel magazines and settler (post) colonialism. The Cambridge companion to postcolonial travel writing. (pp. 173-187) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316597712.013
Johnston, Anna (2018). 'The Aboriginal Mother': poetry and politics. Remembering the Myall Creek massacre. (pp. 40-46) edited by Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan. Kensington, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
Johnston, Anna (2018). Mrs Milson's wordlist: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and the intimacy of linguistic work. Intimacies of violence in the settler colony: economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim. (pp. 225-247) edited by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76231-9_11
Johnston, Anna (2018). “Our Antipodes”: settler colonial environments in Victorian travel writing. Victorian environments: acclimatizing to change in British domestic and colonial culture. (pp. 57-75) edited by Grace Moore and Michael J. Smith. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-57337-7_4
Johnston, Anna (2017). Australian travel writing, 1900–1960. In Oxford research encyclopedia of literature () Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.312
Crane, Ralph and Johnston, Anna (2017). How to dine in India: Flora Annie Steel's The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook and the Anglo-Indian imagination. Flora Annie Steel: a critical study of an unconventional memsahib. (pp. 161-182) edited by Susmita Roye. Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta Press.
Johnston, Anna (2016). Travelling the Tasman World: Travel Writing and Narratives of Transit. New Zealand’s Empire. (pp. 71-88) edited by Katie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7228/manchester/9780719091537.003.0004
Johnston, Anna (2013). The bible trade: Commerce and christianity in the Pacific. Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce. (pp. 31-40) Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Crane, Ralph and Johnston, Anna (2013). Administering domestic space: Flora Annie Steel's The complete Indian housekeeper and cook. Empire calling: administering colonial Australasia and India. (pp. 120-132) edited by Crane, Ralph, Johnston, Anna and Vijayasree, C.. New Delhi, India: Foundation Books. doi: 10.1017/CBO9789382264798.008
Johnston, Anna (2013). ‘Greater Britain’: Late Imperial Travel Writing and the Settler Colonies. Where All Things Are Possible: Oceania, the East and the Victorian Imagination. (pp. 31-43) edited by Richard D. Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315598710-4
Johnston, Anna (2013). 1943: Ernestine Hill’s The Great Australian Loneliness is packed into US Armed Service kitbags. Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures 1935-2010. (pp. 84-90) edited by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni. Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Press.
Johnston, Anna and Crane, Ralph (2013). Introduction: administering colonial Australasia and India. Empire calling: administering colonial Australasia and India. (pp. vii-xiv) edited by Ralph Crane, Anna Johnston and C. Vijayasree. Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press.
Johnston, Anna (2012). Linguistics, Religion, and Law in Colonial New South Wales: Lancelot Threlkeld and Settler-Colonial Humanitarian Debates. Past Law, Present Histories: From Settler Colonies to International Justice. (pp. 23-38) edited by Diane Kirkby. Canberra, Australia: Australian University Press. doi: 10.22459/plph.09.2012.02
Johnston, Anna and Lawson, Alan (2010). Settler postcolonialism and Australian literary culture. Modern Australian criticism and theory. (pp. 28-40) edited by David Carter and Wang Guanglin. Qingdao, China: Ocean University of China Press.
Johnston, Anna and Rolls, Mitchell (2008). Reading Friendly Mission in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction. Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to Friendly Mission. (pp. 13-25) edited by Anna Johnston and Mitchell Rolls. Hobart, TAS, Australia: Quintus Publishing.
Johnston, Anna (2007). The bible trade: commerce and Christianity in the Pacific. In Leigh Dale and Helen M. Gilbert (Ed.), Economies of representation, 1790-2000: colonialism and commerce (pp. 31-39) Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing.
Crane, Ralph and Johnston, Anna (2007). Flora Annie Steel in the Punjab. Writing, Travel, and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology. (pp. 71-95) edited by Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall. London, United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris.
Johnston, Anna (2007). Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations. Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire. (pp. 149-163) edited by Helen Tiffin. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi.
Johnston, Anna (2006). Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia. Travel in the 1800s: Filling the Blank Spaces. (pp. 201-218) edited by Tim Youngs. London, United Kingdom: Anthem Press. doi: 10.7135/UPO9781843317692.012
Johnston, Anna (2006). A Blister on the Imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia. Colonial Lives across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. (pp. 58-87) edited by David Lambert and Alan Lester. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Gilbert, Helen M. and Johnston, Anna (2002). Introduction. In Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston (Ed.), In transit: travel, text, empire 1 ed. (pp. 1-20) New York, NY USA: Peter Lang.
Johnston, Anna (2002). Tahiti, “the desire of our eyes”’: Missionary Travel Narratives and Imperial Surveillance. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. (pp. 65-83) edited by Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang.
Johnston, Anna (2001). Antipodean heathens: The London Missionary Society in Polynesia and Australia, 1800-1850. Colonial frontiers: Indigenous-European encounters in settler societies. (pp. 68-81) edited by Lynette Russell. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press.
Johnston, Anna and Lawson, Alan (2000). Settler colonies. A companion to postcolonial studies. (pp. 360-376) edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray. Malden, Mass USA: Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/b.9780631206637.2004.00021.x
Journal Articles
Johnston, Anna and Piccini, Jon (2024). Lucky Country
or
Shrinking Nation
? Australian Studies Past, Present and Future. Journal of Australian Studies, 48 (4), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2024.2417480
Johnston, Anna (2024). Congratulations to the 2023 Winners of the John Barrett Award. Journal of Australian Studies, 48 (3), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2024.2380643
Johnston, Anna (2023). Congratulations to the 2022 Winners of the John Barrett Award. Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (3), 430-431. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2237284
Johnston, Anna and Magagnoli, Paolo (2022). Histories of the illustrated magazine in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2156085
Johnston, Anna (2019). Exhibiting the enlightenment: Joseph Banks’s Florilegium and colonial knowledge production. Journal of Australian Studies, 43 (1), 118-132. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1572024
Johnston, Anna (2018). Review of The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765–1838. By Andrew Sharp. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2016. viii + 926 pp., illus., maps, notes, index. ISBN 9781869408121 (hbk). Journal of Pacific History, 53 (2), 222-224. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2018.1437679
Johnston, Anna (2017). The Language of Colonial Violence: Lancelot Threlkeld, Humanitarian Narratives and the New South Wales Law Courts. law&history, 4 (2), 72-102.
Johnston, Anna (2017). Becoming “Pacific-minded”: Australian middlebrow writers in the 1940s and the mobility of texts. Transfers, 7 (1), 88-107. doi: 10.3167/TRANS.2017.070107
Johnston, Anna (2016). Little England: nineteenth-century Tasmanian travel writing and settler colonialism. Studies in Travel Writing, 20 (1), 17-33. doi: 10.1080/13645145.2015.1136035
Johnston, Anna (2016). Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body. Journal of British Studies, 55 (2), 422-423. doi: 10.1017/jbr.2016.18
Clarke, Robert and Johnston, Anna (2016). Travelling the sequestered Isle: Tasmania as penitentiary, laboratory and sanctuary. Studies in Travel Writing, 20 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13645145.2015.1136091
Johnston, Anna (2016). ʻThe awful depravity of human nature’: violence and humanitarian narratives in New South Wales and Tahiti, 1796–99. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 17 (1). doi: 10.1353/cch.2016.0016
Edmonds, Penelope and Johnston, Anna (2016). Empire, humanitarianism and violence in the colonies. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 17 (1). doi: 10.1353/cch.2016.0013
Johnston, Anna (2016). Reading Walkabout in Osaka: Travel, Mobility, and Place-making. PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature, 12, 137-142.
Clark, Robert, Dutton, Jacqueline and Johnston, Anna (2014). Shadow zones: dark travel and postcolonial cultures. Postcolonial Studies, 17 (3), 221-235. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2014.993426
Crane, Ralph and Johnston, Anna (2011). Introduction: Administering colonial spaces in Australasia and India. Empire Calling: Administering Colonial Australasia and India, vii-xiv. doi: 10.1017/CBO9789382264798.001
Johnston, Anna (2009). George Augustus Robinson, the ‘Great Conciliator’: colonial celebrity and its postcolonial aftermath. Postcolonial Studies , 12 (2), 153-172. doi: 10.1080/13688790902887155
Johnston, Anna (2007). The strange career of William Ellis. Victorian Studies, 49 (3), 491-501. doi: 10.2979/VIC.2007.49.3.491
Johnston, A (2005). British missionary publishing, missionary celebrity, and empire. Nineteenth Century Prose, 32 (2), 20-+.
Johnston, Anna (2004). The ‘little empire of Wybalenna’: becoming colonial in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 28 (81), 17-31. doi: 10.1080/14443050409387935
Johnston, Anna (2003). Missionary Men: Forming Identities in Imperial Evangelical Britain. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 9, 89-105.
Johnston, A (2002). Writing the nation: Self and country in post-colonial imagination. Canadian Literature (173), 142-143.
Johnston, Anna (2001). The book eaters: textuality, modernity, and the London Missionary Society. Semeia, 88, 13-40.
Johnston, Anna (2000). On the importance of bonnets: the London Missionary Society and the politics of dress in nineteenth-century Polynesia. New Literatures Review, 36, 114-127.
Johnston, Anna (1999). Unbecoming Post-Colonial Narratives: Eric Michaels’ 'Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary'. Southern Review, 32 (1), 60-71.
Johnston, Anna (1997). 'God being, not in the bush’: The Nundah Mission (Qld) and Colonialism. Queensland Review, 4 (1), 71-80. doi: 10.1017/S1321816600001331
Johnston, Anna (1996). Australian Autobiography and the Politics of Making Post-Colonial Space. Westerly, 41 (2), 73-80.
Conference Paper
Farley, Simon and Johnston, Anna (2017). Collections and print culture in the wake of Cook's Endeavour voyage. The Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres Annual Conference: GLAMorous Humanities: Working with Collecting and Cultural Institutions., Canberra, Australia, 8-10 November 2017.
Theses
Johnston, Anna (1999). Adam's ribs : gender, colonialism, and the missionaries, 1800-1860. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/185182
Johnston, Anna (1996). The "Memoirs of many in one" : post-colonial autobiography in settler cultures. M.A. Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.762