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Associate Professor Maryanne Dever

Selected Publications

Books

Dever, M., Vickery, A, and Newman, S. The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2009.
Dever, M. Ed. Australia and Asia: Cultural Transactions. ConsumAsiaN Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and London: Curzon Press, 1997, x + 230pp.
Dever, M. Ed. M. Barnard Eldershaw. Australian Authors' Series. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1995, xxiv + 283pp. Commissioned volume on 'M. Barnard Eldershaw' containing the novel Plaque With Laurel, a selection of their critical essays, reviews, lectures, and letters, with an introductory essay and bibliography.
Dever, M. Ed. Wallflowers and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia, 1910 to 1945. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994, xvi + 175pp.
Carrington, K., Dever, M. Hogg, R., Bargen, J. & Lohrey, A. Eds. Travesty: Miscarriages of Justice. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1991, xiv + 277pp.

Chapters in books and articles in refereed journals

Dever, M. ’Greta Garbo’s Foot or Sex, Socks and Letters’. Forthcoming in a special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on Embodiment and the Archival Imaginary (2009).
Dever, M. and Morrison, Z. ‘Women, Research Performance and Work Context’. Tertiary Education and Management 13:1 (2009), 49-62.
Dever, M. 'Students, Careers, and Employers: Findings from an International Study'. Bologna and Beyond: New Perspectives on Gender and Gender Studies. Eds. Sabine Grenz, Gabriele Jähnert and Beate Kortendiek. Bulletin Texte 34. Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2008, 63-74.
Dever, M. & Curtin J. 'Bent babies and closed borders: Paid maternity leave, ideal families and the Australian population project'. Asian Journal of Women's Studies 13:2 (2007), 33-62.
Bartlett, A., Dever, M. & Henderson, M. 'Notes Towards an Australian Feminist Archive'. Outskirts. Vol. 16, (May 2007).
Dever, M. 'Baby Talk: The Howard Government, Families and the Politics of Difference'. Special issue on 'Constructing and Contesting Motherhood', Hecate 31:2 (2005), 45-61.
Dever, M. '"A friendship that is grown on paper": Reflections on editing Marjorie Barnard's letters to Nettie Palmer'. Antipodes, 19: 1 (2005), 13-19.
Dever, M. 'Women's Studies and the Discourse of Vocationalism: Some New Perspectives'. Women's Studies International Forum 27: 5 & 6 (2004), 475-88.
Dever, M. 'The bonds of friendship: The demise of "M. Barnard Eldershaw".' Hecate 30:2 (2004), 129-47.
Dever, M. & Saugeres, L. 'I forgot to have children!: Untangling links between feminism, careers and voluntary childlessness.' Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 6: 2 (2004), 116-26.
Maher, JM. & Dever, M. 'What matters to women: Beyond reproductive stereotypes'. People and Place 12: 3 (2004), 7-12.
Dever, M. 'How students characterised the vocational gains from women's studies (or why we need not be anxious)'. Hecate 29: 2 (2003), 34-49.
Dever, M., Cuthbert, D. & Pollak, L. 'Life After Women's Studies: Graduates and the Labour Market'. In Robyn Wiegman (ed.) Women's Studies On Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002, 312-38.
Dever, M. '"I Don't Know Where This Will Take Me": Rethinking Study/Work Relationships for Women's Studies Students'. Women's Studies Quarterly 30: 3 & 4 (2002), 256-70.
Dever, M. & Day, E. 'Beyond the Campus: Some Initial Findings on Women's Studies, Careers, and Employers'. Journal of International Women's Studies 2: 2 (May 2001). 20pp.
Dever, M. 'Wrestling with the Devil, or From Pedagogy to Profit and Back Again'. In Ellen Cronan Rose and Maralee Mayberry (eds.) Meeting the Challenge: Innovative Feminist Pedagogies in Action. New York and London: Routledge, 1999, 49-62.
Dever, M., Cuthbert, D. & Dacre, A. 'Women's Studies Graduates and the Labour Market: New Thoughts and New Questions'. Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 23:2 (1999), 102-110.
Dever, M. 'Notes on feminist pedagogy in the brave new (corporate) world'. The European Journal of Women's Studies 6:2 (1999), 219-25.
Dever, M. 'Culture Shocks: Feminism and Difference in the Classroom'. Asian Journal of Women's Studies 14:1 (1998), 130-52.
Dever, M. 'Exploring feminist research: A student-centred model'. Feminist Teacher 11:2 (1997), 91-103.
Dever, M. 'Reading other people's mail', Archives and Manuscripts: Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists 24:1 (1996), 116-129.
Dever, M. '"No mine and thine but ours": Finding "M. Barnard Eldershaw"', Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 14:1 (1995), 65-74.

Reports

Dever, M., Boreham, P. Haynes, M., Kübler, M., Laffan, W., Behrens, K. and Western, M. Gender Differences in Early Post-PhD Employment in Australian Universities: The influence of PhD Experience on Women's Academic Careers. Brisbane: The University of Queensland Social Research Centre, 2008.
Dever, M., Morrison, Z., Dalton, B. & Tayton, S. When Research Works for Women: Report from the Project. Monash University, 2006. ISBN 0-9756822-0.
Maher, JM., Dever, M., Curtin, J. & Singleton, A. What Women (and Men) Want: Births, Policies and Choices. Report from the project 'Families, Fertility and the Future: Hearing the Voices of Australians'. September 2004, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. ISBN: 0-9756822-0-2. Also available at: www.arts.monash.edu.au/ws/research/projects/families-fertility-future.html

Selected conference and seminar presentations

'”Garbo Papers Reveal Nothing”: Intimacy and materiality in the archive’. Melbourne Feminist History Group, 16 October 2009.
‘Gender, Early Career Formation and the Changing Academic Workforce’. 6th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, 5-8 August 2009, Stockholm, Sweden.
'Gender, Research and Academic Career Formation: Findings from Two Studies', Research Seminar, McGill Center for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW), McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 24 April 2008.
Invited Public Lecture: 'Women's Studies Students' Career Aspirations and Outcomes'. Atlantic Women's Studies Coordinators' Meeting, St Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada. 10 April 2008.
'The interdisciplinary classroom: Did we set the bar too high?', Conference: Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections: Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 11-13 April 2008
'Gender, Research and Careers'. Public Lecture, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa, 14 February 2008.
'Notes Towards an Australian Feminist Archive' [with A. Bartlett and M. Henderson]. Simply the Best 2: Reflections of Women Through Records, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial National Conference no.4, University of South Australia 10-12 October 2007.
'Students, Careers, Employment: Findings from an International Study'. Panel Member: Panel: Gender Studies and Beyond. Fifth European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Humbolt University, Berlin, 28-31 August 2007.
'Passion and Performativity: Research, Flexibility and Professionalism', Stream: Gender and Working in Academe, Gender, Work and Organisation Fifth International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Keele, 27– 29 June 2007.
'Greta Garbo's foot or sex, socks and letters'. Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality in the Archives. Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, 27-29 April 2007.
'Marjorie Barnard and Romancing a Life', Panel: Secrets and Lies: 'Life Fictions' and Women's Writing in Australasian Modernism. Out of the Archive: 8th Annual Modernist Studies Association, University of Tulsa, 19-22 October 2006.
'When Research Works for Women', Second International Conference on Gender Equity Education in the Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 22-24 June 2006.
'Universities and research: What works for women'. Panel: Off the Agenda: Unfinished Business in Research, Universities and the New Research Environment Conference, National Tertiary Education Union Federal Office, Melbourne, 17 May 2006.
“'I'd rather muck round with the human heart': Who owns the literary love affair”. An Open Book: Research, Imagination and the Pursuit of Knowledge, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 29 April – 1 May 2005.

Research Grants

Project: Gender differences in early post-PhD employment and the influence of PhD context and family on women's academic careers
Researcher(s): P. Boreham, M. Western, J. Baxter, M. Dever and W. Laffan.
Funding source: Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee Senior Women's Colloquium, 2007-8
Award: $30,000
Problematic: This project investigates how gender differences in early career academic employment paths and research performance are shaped by graduates' family formation and PhD experiences. This is achieved by analysing a new nationally-representative data set which holds survey responses of approx. 2,000 people who graduated with a PhD between 1999 and 2001 from the leading eight Australian research-intensive universities. The data will be analysed to assess gender differences in early career employment outcomes and research performance, the determinants of any such differences, and their implication for subsequent career advancement in the university sector.

Project: Letters between Vance and Nettie Palmer, 1909-1959: The Complete Correspondence.
Researcher(s): C. Ferrier (UQ) and M. Dever
Funding source: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2005-2007
Award: $225,000
Problematic: This project involves editing the complete extant correspondence (1909-1959) between Vance and Nettie Palmer, Australia's most significant literary couple, for publication. These letters are almost entirely unpublished. An innovative editorial methodology is being developed that crosses the boundaries between auto/biography, private/public voices and ‘epistolary narrative’, and addresses, in particular, issues of gender and cultural production. The proposed two volumes of letters have extensive critical apparatus and are framed both by the preoccupations of the two correspondents and the wider sweep of history. The letters will be of great value as a resource for other scholars and also of much interest to the wider reading public.