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Professional Background
Paul Eggert teaches courses on Modernism, drama, the Victorian novel, travel literature, heroism and banditry, and print culture. He has taught at UNSW since the inception of its Canberra campus in 1986. He read for degrees at the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne and Kent at Canterbury.
Paul was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 and received a personal Chair in 2001 and Centenary Medal in 2003. He chairs the Board of the AustLit database and is general editor of the Academy Editions of Australian Literature.
Research Interests
He directed the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre from 1993 to 2005. Its major project, the Academy Editions of Australian Literature series for the Australian Academy of the Humanities saw the publication of ten full-scale scholarly editions during 1996-2007. Paul also brought the Colonial Texts Series to its conclusion with its eighth volume in 2004. He has directed projects creating electronic editions and enabling electronic collaboration in humanities research.
Paul writes in the areas of print culture, editorial theories of the text and electronic textuality, the restoration of historic buildings and paintings, museology, and on D.H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad.
His next project is a monograph arguing for an English-studies approach to the interdisciplinary area history of the book. The monograph will conceptualise the approach and exemplify it via a series of case-studies.
Publications
Two critical editions for Cambridge University Press appeared in their Works of D. H. Lawrence series in 1990 and 1994 (The Boy in the Bush and Twilight in Italy), a co-edition (with Stanton Mellick and Patrick Morgan) of the first of the Academy Editions series (The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley) in 1996, and also of Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms (with Elizabeth Webby), in the same series published by UQP in 2006. Paul has also edited Editing in Australia (1990), Lawrence and Comedy (with John Worthen; Cambridge UP, 1996) and The Editorial Gaze (with Margaret Sankey; Garland, 1998) as well as D.H. Lawrence titles for Penguin and Penguin Classics.
He has recently completed a monograph Securing the Past, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in late 2008.
You are welcome to visit his projects webpage at http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC.
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- Modernism, colonial literature, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, travel writing.
- Literature of heroism and banditry. Ned Kelly.
- Book history, editorial theory, philosophies of conservation and restoration, museology.