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Esther Milne

BA (Hons) (SUT); PhD (Melb)

Lecturer

bullet Tel: +613 9214 8195

bullet Email: emilne@swin.edu.au
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Teaching:

Dr Milne teaches across a range of subjects in the Media and Communications program, including Texts and Contexts, Reading Writing and Criticism; Issues in Electronic Media and Literature/Media Project.

She convenes the following subjects:

  • HALM104 Texts and Contexts

  • HALM200 Reading , Writing and Criticism

  • HAL103 Writing Fiction

  • HAL209 Australian Writing and Cultural Change

Research Interests:

  • new media;

  • nineteenth century networks of communication;

  • the postal history of networked intimacy, affect & presence;

  • distributed identity and affect;

  • the production of celebrity and its techno-institutional frameworks.

Publications include:

  • ‘Images of Celebrity: publicity, privacy, law', co-authored with Andrew Kenyon, Media & Arts Law Review , 10.4, December 2005.

  • ‘“Magic bits of paste-board”: texting in the nineteenth century', Feature Article, M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture, 6.6, 2004, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0401/02-milne.php.

Recent Conference Papers :

  • ‘“I never read anything I haven't written myself”: celebrity blogging', conference paper (co-authored with Andrew Kenyon), Cultural Studies of Australia, 'Culture Fix' 25 - 27 November 2005.

  • ‘Email and Epistolary Culture: text, technology, history', Textual Culture Conference: Stirling University , Scotland , 18 - 20 July 2005.

Recent book reviews :

  • Gary Krug, Communication, technology and cultural change (Sage: 2005), Media International Australia , 117, November 2005, 159-160.

  • Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark eds., At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (MIT/Leonardo: 2005), RealTime , 70: Dec 05/Jan 06: www.realtimearts.net/rt70/milne_distance.html

Awards:

  • Internal, Track Record Grants Scheme, Research and Postgraduate Studies Committee, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, August 2004: $1952.49.

Research Student Supervision:

  • Available for supervision in the following areas: critical theoretical analyses of The Sopranos, & Sex and the City; new media; the construction of networked identity; narratives of the Internet; reality TV and the culture of surveillance; nineteenth century communication technologies; email history and practice; literary theory; and the production of celebrity.

  • Recent supervision includes projects on: the cultural languages of Seinfeld ; Internet child pornography; the cinematic representation of constitutional identity.

 

Consultant:

  • External Reviewer, Research Program for the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland, July 2004 < www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html>

Other:

  • Regular academic refereeing includes: Southern Review , M/C – journal of media and culture , Fibreculture Journal and the Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
    < www.swin.edu.au/sbs/ajets/ >

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