Dr Roger Osborne ~ Lecturer, English/Writing

Roger Osborne joined JCU in 2018 as Lecturer in English and Writing.

Roger’s research program concentrates on Australian literature and British Modernism seen through the lens of book history, magazine culture, and scholarly editing. He is a contributing editor to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, delivering an edition of Under Western Eyes in 2013, and working towards an edition of Nostromo, widely considered Conrad's modernist masterpiece. This edition is scheduled for publication in 2019.

Roger’s work on the trans-national nature of Australian print culture has been published widely, and his co-authored book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s, the first of two projected volumes, is to be published by Sydney University Press in 2018.

Roger has worked at the forefront of digital scholarly editing and has an international reputation for this work. His Joseph Furphy Digital Archive was published in 2015, and continues to grow with new modules added each year. He is currently planning a book-length study of Furphy's Such is Life to accompany the Digital Archive that investigates the intersections of material and digital textuality in historical contexts.

Roger has employed digital humanities methods in the study of book history, and has completed several well-regarded digital mapping projects. Through productive intersections with existing and emerging research strengths, his experience as a scholarly editor and book historian in trans-national studies and digital humanities makes a significant contribution to the literary studies program at James Cook University.

Digital Projects

Joseph Furphy Digital Archive: https://www.austlit.edu.au/furphy

Tom Collins and Company: https://tomcollinsandcompany.github.io/annotate/

Teaching

• EL1008: Telling Tales: Approaches to Narrative (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• EL1009: Great Books: Epochs and Classics (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• EL2011: Creative Writing (Level 2; CNS)
• EL3013: Reading and Writing the Short Story (Level 3; CNS)

Research Disciplines

• Literary Studies (2005)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Understanding Past Societies (9505)
• Communication (9502)
• Information Services (8903)

Fellowships

• 2016 - University of Queensland Fryer Library Fellowship
• 2011 - Nancy Keesing Fellowship, State Library of NSW
• 2004 to 2008 - University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1996 to 2000 - University College Postgraduate Research Scholarship, UNSW Canberra

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Journal Articles

• Osborne R (2017) Dairy farm philosopher: J.P. McKinney's 'According to Noonan' stories and Ron Campbell's Australian Journal. Queensland Review, 24 (2). pp. 293-304
• Osborne R, Gerber A and Hunter J (2016) Archiving, editing, and reading on the AustESE workbench: assembling and theorising an ontology-based electronic scholarly edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 31 (4). pp. 850-865
• Osborne R and Whitlock G (2016) Carpentaria: reading with the dirt of blurbs and front pages. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 16 (2).
• Osborne R (2015) The city as archive: mapping David Malouf's Brisbane. Queensland Review, 22 (2). pp. 118-130
• Osborne R (2013) 'Making the archives talk': towards an electronic edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 13 (1).
• Osborne R and Whitlock G (2013) Benang: a worldly book. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 13 (3).
• Osborne R and Allen C (2012) Networked reading: using AustLit to assist reading and understanding of texts from the past. English in Australia, 47 (2). pp. 18-26

Book Chapters

• Carter D and Osborne R (2006) Periodicals. In: Paper Empires: a history of the book in Australia 1946-2005. University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, pp. 239-257

Other research outputs

• Osborne R and Eggert P (2013) Under Western Eyes [by Joseph Conrad]. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, 14. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Shadows in the Cane: Reconstructing History Through Fiction to Responsibly Reimagine and Make Accessible the 1930s History of Cassowary Coast Migrant Sugar Workers. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)