Academic Staff: Professor Anne Cranny-Francis
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Position: Professor in Critical & Cultural Studies Tel: 9850 8747 Fax: 9850 6893 Email: afrancis@scmp.mq.edu.au Click here to view Professor Anne Cranny-Francis's Curriculum Vitae Publications | |
Research ProjectsI am currently working on two major research projects: 1. Skin Jobs: biopolitics, embodiment and haptic technologies (2006-2008)
2. Cultural Auracy: developing a methodology for the analysis of sonic texts and their cultural meanings (2007-2009) For more details on these projects, see my attached c.v. | |
Books2005 MultiMedia: Texts and Contexts. London: Sage. Hardcover ISBN: 9780761949947; Paperback ISBN: 9780761949954 2003 Gender Studies: Terms and Debates. With Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos & Joan Kirkby. London: Palgrave * Hardcover ISBN: 0333776119; Paperback ISBN: 0333776127 1995 The Body in the Text. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. * ISBN 0522845754 1994 Popular Culture. Geelong: Deakin University Press. * ISBN 0949823384 1992 Engendered Fiction: Analysing Gender in the Production and Reception of Texts. Sydney: New South Wales University Press. * ISBN 086840165X 1990 Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction. Cambridge: Polity Press; New York: St Martin's Press. Hardcover ISBN: 0745605273; Paperback ISBN: 0745605281 1990 Feminine/Masculine and Representation. Edited with Terry Threadgold. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0046100180 Co-editor of the book and co-writer of a chapter Book Chapters2008 "Touching Skin: embodiment and the senses": invited paper for Cultural Theory/Everyday Practice, ed. Nicole Anderson & Katrina Schlunke. Oxford: Oxford University Press: in press. Accepted for publication 8/4/2007 * 2007 "Vaster than Empire(s), and more slow’: the politics and economics of embodiment in Doctor Who": invited paper (with John Tulloch) for Third Person, ed Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press: in press. Accepted for publication 5/3/2007. * 2006 "Connexions" in Cyberlines 2.0: Languages and Cultures of the Internet, ed. Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause. Albert Park, Vic.: James Nicholas Publishers, pp. 135-161. * ISBN 1875408428 2006 "The Ghost in/on the Machine: magic, technology and the ‘modest witness’" in Technologies of Magic: A cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny, ed. J. Potts & E. Scheer. Sydney: Power Publications, pp. 64-77. * ISBN 978 0 909952 35 8 2005 "Moving the Matrix: kinesics, space and embodiment in the Matrix trilogy" in The Matrix: Cyberpunk Reloaded, ed. S. Gillis. London: Wallflower Press, pp. 101-113. * ISBN Hardcover 978-1–904764–33–5; Paperback 978-1–904764–32–8 2004 "Spinning the Web: analysing a web site" in Doing Literacy On-Line, ed. Ilana Snyder and Catherine Beavis. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, pp. 145-62. * ISBN Hardback 1-57273-540-6; Paperback 1-57273-541-1 2003 "Translation and everyday life." In Translation/Translation, ed. Susan Petrilli. Amsterdam & N.Y.: Rodopi Press, pp. 603-14. * ISBN Hb: 978-90-420-0947-9 ; Pb 90-420-0947-0 2000 "Connexions" in Cyberlines: the Languages of Cyberspace, ed. Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause. Albert Park, Vic.: James Nicholas Publishers, pp. 123-48. * ISBN 1875408266 2000 "The erotics of the (cy)Borg: authority and gender in the sociocultural imaginary" in Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction, ed Marleen Barr. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allenheld, pp. 145-63. * ISBN 087972174X 1998 "Spinster of Dreams, Weaver of Realities: the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" in A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ed. Val Gough and Jill Rudd. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 161-78. * ISBN 0853235910 1998 The 'science' of science fiction: a sociocultural analysis" in Reading Science: Functional and critical perspectives on discourses of science ed. J.R. Martin & Robert Veel. London: Routledge, pp. 63-80. * ISBN Hbk 0415167892; Pbk 0415167906 1998 "On The Vampire Tapestry" in Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond ed. Clive Bloom. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, pp. 134-154. * ISBN Hbk 0312212380; Pbk 978-0312212384 1996 'Women have always been spinsters': the textual, political practice of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" in Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, ed. Gerry Turcotte. Wollongong: Centre for Research into Textual and Cultural Studies, pp. 125-32. * ISBN 0864184123 1996 "Technology and/or Weapon: the disciplines of reading in the Secondary English classroom" in Literacy in Society, ed. Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams. London: Longmans, pp. 172-90. * ISBN 058221792X 1994 "Feminist Romance." In The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory. Oxford: Polity Press, pp. 191-99 * ISBN Hbk 0745612075; Pbk 0745612083 1993 "Gender and Genre: feminist subversion of genre fiction and its implications for critical literacy" in The Powers of Literacy: A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. London: Falmer Press, pp. 90-115 * ISBN Hbk 0750702265; Pbk 0750702273 1991 "The Education of Desire: Late Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fiction and its Influence on Twentieth-Century Feminist Fantasy." In The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age, ed. K. Filmer. London: Macmillan, pp. 45-59. * ISBN 0333534107 1990 "De-fanging the vampire: S.M.Charnas' The Vampire Tapestry as subversive horror fiction." In American Horror Fiction, ed. Brian Docherty. London: Macmillan, pp. 155-175.* ISBN Hbk 0312032234; Pbk 978-0312032234 1990 "Man-made Monsters: the dystopian feminist science fiction of Suzy McKee Charnas." In Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches, ed. R.J. Ellis & Rhys Garnett. London: Macmillan, pp. 183-206.* ISBN Hbk 0312035985; Pbk 978-0312035983 1990 "Feminist Futures: a Generic Study." In Alien Zone: Cultural Theory & Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Annette Kuhn. London: Verso, pp. 219-227. * ISBN Hbk 0860919935; Pbk 978-0860919933 1990 "Soap opera as gender training: teenaged girls and TV" with Patricia Palmer. In Feminine/ Masculine and Representation, ed T. Threadgold & A. Cranny-Francis. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, pp. 171-89. ISBN 0046100180 1988 "Sexual Politics and Political Repression in Bram Stoker's Dracula" in Nineteenth-Century Suspense: from Poe to Conan Doyle, ed. C.S. Bloom. London: Macmillan,1988, pp. 64-79. * ISBN Hbk 0333444787; Pbk 978-0333444788 1987 "The Moving Image: Film and Television." In Communication and Culture: An Introduction, ed. G. Kress. Sydney: University of N.S.W. Press, pp. 155-180. * ISBN 0868402664 1987 "Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite: The Case of the Anguished Author." In Nineteenth-Century Suspense: from Poe to Conan Doyle, ed. C.S. Bloom. London: Macmillan, pp. 93-106. * ISBN Hbk 0333444787; Pbk 978-0333444788 1986 "The Strategy of Utopia: A Study of Conflict and Ideology in William Morris' News from Nowhere." In Semiotics/Ideology/Language, eds Terry Threadgold, E.A. Grosz, G. Kress and M.A.K. Halliday. Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 75-91. * ISBN 0949405027 Refereed Journal articles2008 "Touchpapers: how contemporary explorations of touch and tactility are exploding traditional understandings of embodied being" in Cultural Studies and Everyday Life ed Nicole Anderson and Katrina Schlunke. Oxford: OUP. Invited paper, in preparation. 2007 "'Vaster than Empire(s), and more slow': the politics and economics of embodiment in Doctor Who." With John Tulloch. In Vast Narrative.[2008] Invited paper, in press. 2007 "Ecce techno, or, Suiting the biomechanical platform: immersion and contemporary embodiment": invited paper for Visual Communication, accepted for publication 4/12/06: in press 2007 "Touching film: the embodied practice and politics of film-viewing and film-making": invited paper for Senses and Society, accepted for publication 24/8/06: in press 2007 "Mapping Cultural Auracy: the sonic politics of The Day the Earth Stood Still." Social Semiotics, Volume 17, No. 1: 87-110. 2006 "Somatic Technologies: Embodiment, New Technologies and the Undead." Scan: Journal of media arts culture, Vol.3,No.3 (2006): viewed at http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=84 2006 "Connexions" in Cyberlines 2.0: Languages and Cultures of the Internet, ed. Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause. Albert Park, Vic.: James Nicholas Publishers, pp. 135-161. 2006 "Spinning the web site: understanding new media literacies." Screen Education, Issue 43 (Spring): 70-75. 2006 "The Ghost in/on the Machine: magic, technology and the 'modest witness'" in Technologies of Magic: A cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny, ed. J. Potts & E. Scheer. Sydney: Power Publications, pp. 64-77. 2005 "Moving the Matrix: kinesics, space and embodiment in the Matrix trilogy" in The Matrix: Cyberpunk Reloaded, ed. S. Gillis. London: Wallflower Press, pp. 101-113. 2004 'The Ghost in/on the Machine: magic, technology and the "modest witness"' Scan: Journal of media arts culture, Vol 1, No. 2 (June): viewed at http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_article.php?recordID=32. 2004 "Spinning the Web: analysing a web site" in Doing Literacy On-Line, ed. Ilana Snyder and Catherine Beavis. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, pp. 145-62. 2003 "Translation and everyday life." In Translation/Translation, ed. Susan Petrilli. Amsterdam & N.Y.: Rodopi Press, pp. 603-14. 2002 "Evaluation for effective web communication: An Australian example" with Patricia Gillard, Curator: The Museum Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1: 35-49. 2000 "The anatomy of a website: exploring multimedia literacy", Information Technology, Education and Society, Volume 1, No. 1: 23-37. 2000 "Connexions" in Cyberlines: the Languages of Cyberspace, ed. Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause. Albert Park, Vic.: James Nicholas Publishers, pp. 123-48. 2000 "The erotics of the (cy)Borg: authority and gender in the sociocultural imaginary" in Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction, ed Marleen Barr. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allenheld, pp. 145-63. 1999 "Translation and everyday life", Athanor: Semiotics, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura, Vol. 10, Pt 2 (1999/2000): 21-30. 1998 "Spinster of Dreams, Weaver of Realities: the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" in A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ed. Val Gough and Jill Rudd. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 161-78. 1998 The 'science' of science fiction: a sociocultural analysis" in Reading Science: Functional and critical perspectives on discourses of science ed. J.R. Martin & Robert Veel. London: Routledge, pp. 63-80. 1998 "On The Vampire Tapestry" in Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond ed. Clive Bloom. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, pp. 134-154. 1997 "Different identities, different voices: possibilities and pleasures in some Trek novels by Jean Lorrah", Science-Fiction Studies, Volume 24, Pt 2 (July): 245-55. 1996 'Women have always been spinsters': the textual, political practice of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" in Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, ed. Gerry Turcotte. Wollongong: Centre for Research into Textual and Cultural Studies, pp. 125-32. 1996 "Technology and/or Weapon: the disciplines of reading in the Secondary English classroom" in Literacy in Society, ed. Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams. London: Longmans, pp. 172-90. 1996 "Interview with the Vampire: pedagogy, popular culture and political practice", Interpretations: Journal of the English Teachers Association of Western Australia, Volume 29, No. 3: 29-45. 1995 "Writings/Readings: how to know a genre", with J. R. Martin, Interpretations: Journal of the English Teachers Association of Western Australia, Vol. 28, No. 3: 1-32. 1994 "In/visible Education: class, gender and pedagogy in Educating Rita and Dead Poets Society", with J.R. Martin, Interpretations: Journal of the English Teachers Association of Western Australia, Vol. 27, No. 1: 28-57. 1994 "Feminist Romance." In The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory. Oxford: Polity Press, pp. 191-99 1993 "Making new meanings: literary and linguistic perspectives on the function of genre in textual practice," with J.R. Martin. English in Australia, (September), No. 105: 30-43. 1993 "Gender and Genre: feminist subversion of genre fiction and its implications for critical literacy" in The Powers of Literacy: A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. London: Falmer Press, pp. 90-115 1992 "The Value of 'Genre' in English Literature Teaching," English in Australia (March), No. 99: 27-48. 1992 "Danger, shark! - assessing and evaluating a student text" with Alison Lee, J.R. Martin & Robin McCormack, in Literacy in Social Processes, ed. Frances Christie. Darwin: Centre for the Study of Language in Education, pp. 245-85 1992 "Contratextuality: the poetics of subversion." with J.R. Martin in Literacy in Social Processes, ed. Frances Christie. Darwin: Centre for the Study of Language in Education, 1992, pp. 285-344. 1991 "Imaging the writer: the visual semiotics of book reviews," Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal (1991), Vol. 17, No. 2: 43-59. 1991 "Batman: Hollywood and the Postmodern." Social Semiotics, Volume 1, Number 1: 4-29. 1991 "The Education of Desire: Late Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fiction and its Influence on Twentieth-Century Feminist Fantasy." In The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age, ed. K. Filmer. London: Macmillan, pp. 45-59. 1990 "De-fanging the vampire: S.M.Charnas' The Vampire Tapestry as subversive horror fiction." In American Horror Fiction, ed. Brian Docherty. London: Macmillan, pp. 155-175. 1990 "Man-made Monsters: the dystopian feminist science fiction of Suzy McKee Charnas." In Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches, ed. R.J. Ellis & Rhys Garnett. London: Macmillan, pp. 183-206. 1990 "Feminist Futures: a Generic Study." In Alien Zone: Critical Theory & Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Annette Kuhn. London: Verso, pp. 219-227. 1990 "Soap opera as gender training: teenaged girls and TV" with Patricia Palmer. In Feminine/ Masculine and Representation, ed T. Threadgold & A. Cranny-Francis. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, pp. 171-89. 1989 "'Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1984' in 1989: Raymond Williams and George Orwell." Southern Review, Volume 22, No. 2 (July): 152-62. 1988 "Gender and Genre: Feminist Rewritings of Detective Fiction." Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1988): 69-84. 1988 "Sexual Politics and Political Repression in Bram Stoker's Dracula" in Nineteenth-Century Suspense: from Poe to Conan Doyle, ed. C.S. Bloom. London: Macmillan,1988, pp. 64-79. 1987 "The Moving Image: Film and Television." In Communication and Culture: An Introduction, ed. G. Kress. Sydney: University of N.S.W. Press, pp. 155-180. 1987 "Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite: The Case of the Anguished Author." In Nineteenth-Century Suspense: from Poe to Conan Doyle, ed. C.S. Bloom. London: Macmillan, pp. 93-106. 1986 "The Education of Desire: Late Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fiction and its Influence on Twentieth-Century Feminist Fantasy." The Ring Bearer, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer): 45-59. 1986 "Visual Literacy." Metro: Media and Education Magazine, No. 71 (Spring): 8-13. 1986 "Representation: An Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture." Hermes, Vol. 2, No. 1(September): 43-56. 1986 "The Strategy of Utopia: A Study of Conflict and Ideology in William Morris' News from Nowhere." In Semiotics/Ideology/Language, eds Terry Threadgold, E.A. Grosz, G. Kress and M.A.K. Halliday. Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 75-91. 1985 "Sexuality and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Star Trek." Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 12, Pt. 3 (November): 274-284. 1983 "Henry Lawson and the Labour Leader." Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (October): 266. 1982 "Pacifying the Socialist: the 'Reform' of Henry Lawson's 'The Hymn of the Socialists'." Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (October), 511-515. | |