Dr Melissa Harper
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
PhD and MPhil Supervision
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Publications
Books
Harper, Melissa (2020). The ways of the bushwalker: on foot in Australia. Updated ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing .
Harper, Melissa J. (2007). The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia. Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales Press.
Book Chapters
Harper, Melissa (2014). Outdoor magazines. A companion to the Australian media. (pp. 326-327) edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley. Kew, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Harper, Melissa and White, Richard (2012). How national were the first national parks? Comparative perspectives from the British settler societies. Civilizing nature: national parks in global historical perspective. (pp. 50-67) edited by Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler and Patrick Kupper. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Harper, Melissa (2010). Billy. Symbols of Australia. (pp. 83-92) edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: UNSW Press.
Harper, Melissa and White, Richard (2010). Land of symbols. Symbols of Australia. (pp. 1-11) edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: UNSW Press.
Harper, Melissa (2009). Saving the Franklin River: The environment takes centre stage. Turning points in Australian history. (pp. 211-223) edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney, NSW, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.
Harper, Melissa (1999). A boy's own adventure : George Morrison on foot across Australia. Playing the man : New approaches to masculinity. (pp. 110-122) Annandale, NSW, Australia: Pluto Press Australia.
Journal Articles
Harper, Melissa (2018). Writing Home: Walking, Literature and Belonging in Australia's Red Centre. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (3), 512-514. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12498
Harper, Melissa (2017). Locating histories of bush-based recreation in Australia. History Compass, 15 (4) e12377. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12377
Harper, Melissa (2015). The bushwalkers’ diet: The relationship between food, walking practice and identity. Food, Culture and Society, 18 (3), 419-440. doi: 10.1080/15528014.2015.1043106
Harper, Melissa (2014). Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960. By Charlotte Macdonald. Australian Historical Studies, 45 (1), 146-148. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2014.877796
Harper, Melissa (2012). Feeding the public stomach: dining out in 1970s Sydney with restaurant critic Leo Schofield. History Australia, 9 (3), 43-66. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2012.11668430
Croke, Christopher and Harper, Melissa (2011). The rise of the baggy green as an Australian symbol: The modern invention of an age-old tradition. Sport in Society, 14 (5), 685-700. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2011.575113
Harper, Melissa (2010). National parks in Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Harper, Melissa (2010). Bushwalking in Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Harper, Melissa (2010). Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography, by Roslynn D.Haynes, Polymath Press, Sandy Bay, 2006, 392 pp., ISBN 097757380X. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (2), 247-248. doi: 10.1080/14443051003724548
Crotty, Martin and Harper, Melissa (2008). Editors' note. Journal of Australian Studies, 32 (1) doi: 10.1080/14443050801993776
Harper, Melissa (2007). Review of the Council of Australian State Libraries’ National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries. History Australia, 4 (2), 51.1-51.2. doi: 10.2104/ha070051
Harper, M.J. (2007). Pedestrian prose: The travel writing of William Mogford Hamlet, bushwalker. Studies in Travel Writing - Australian Travel Writing, 11 (1), 37-58.
Harper, M. (2005). Review: Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other, Poynting, Scott, Noble, Greg, Tabar, Paul and Collins, Jock. Media International Australia, 116, 134-135.
Harper, Melissa (2000). Sensuality in Sandshoes: Representations of the bush in the walking and writing of John Le Gay Brereton and Percy Grainer. Australian Historical Society, 31 (115), 287-303. doi: 10.1080/10314610008596132
Harper, Melissa (1995). The Battle for the Bush: Bushwalking versus Hiking between the Wars. Journal of Australian Studies, 19 (45), 41-52. doi: 10.1080/14443059509387226
Conference Paper
Harper, Melissa (2012). Materiality and the bushwalker’s diet: the influence of food on walking practice. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference (CSAA 2012), Sydney, Australia, 4-6 December 2012.
Creative Work
Harper, Melissa and Hetherington, Michelle (2009). Symbols of Australia. Canberra, Australia: National Museum of Australia.