Dr Katherine Bode
Associate Professor, Literary and Textual Studies
Research interests
- History of the Book, Publishing and Reading
- Digital Humanities, Data-rich Analysis and Quantitative Literary History
- Australian Literature, Literature in Australia and Literary History
- Gender Studies, including Feminist Theory and Masculinity Studies
Biography
I was appointed to the ANU's Centre for Digital Humanities Research (then the Digital Humanities Hub) in 2011, and headed the Centre from 2011 to 2013. In 2016 I began a continuing appointment in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. Prior to arriving at ANU I held a lectureship in English at the University of Tasmania, and an ARC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney. I completed a PhD in English at the University of Queensland in 2006.
My most recent monograph, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012), explores the critical potential of quantitative and computational methods to survey trends in Australian literary history, across a variety of areas including genre, authorship, publishing, reading and literary criticism. My next book, A World of Fiction: Digital Archives and the Future of Literary History, is forthcoming with University of Michigan Press in 2017.
Researcher's projects
My current ARC Discovery project (2013-2016) employs automatic search and harvesting methods to mine Trove to create an index and full-text archive of serialised fiction in nineteenth-century Australian newspapers. In identifying and analysing these titles I am interested in discovering what fiction was available in Australia - and where in the world it came from - in order to better understand how literature travelled globally at this time, and how this movement of fiction shaped Australian literary culture.
Available student projects
I am available to supervise PhD, Masters and Honours topics in any of my areas of expertise. I am particularly interested in projects that employ new digital methods to explore research questions in literary studies and book history, or use humanities methods to explore digital archives and culture.
Current student projects
As primary supervisor:
Tania Evans, Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things: Masculinities in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
Gavin Findlay, Theatre as Ecosystem: Combining Tangible and Intangible Heritage through a Digital Humanities Approach
Airlie Lawson, International Copyright and Australian Fiction
Ling Chung Guan, On Literariness: A Study on the Poetic Strategies of Digital Poetry
Christie Thompson, City and Suburbs in Christos Tsiolkas's Fiction
As advisor:
Imogen Matthews, Anita Heiss as Public Intellectual
Publications
- Bode, K 2017, 'Fictional Systems: Mass-Digitization, Network Analysis, and Nineteenth-Century Australian Newspapers', Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 100-138.
- Bode, K 2017, 'The Equivalence of "Close" and "Distant" Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History', Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 77-106.
- Bode, K 2017, 'Part I: Book History: Australia', in Coral Ann Howells, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte (eds), The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom.
- Bode, K 2016, 'Thousands of Titles Without Authors: Digitized Newspapers, Serial Fiction, and the Challenges of Anonymity', Book History, vol. 18.
- Bode, K & Hetherington, C 2015, 'Retrieving a world of fiction: Building an index - and an archive - of serialized novels in Australian newspapers, 1850-1914', Script and Print, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 197-211.
- Bode, K & Hetherington C 2015, 'Retrieving a World of Fiction: Building an Index - and an Archive - of Serialised Novels in Australian Newspapers, 1850-1914', The Indexer, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 57-65.
- Towsey, M, Bode, K, Burrows, S et al 2015, 'Remapping Cultural History? Digital Humanities, Historical Bibliometrics, and the Reception of Print Culture', Digital Humanities 2015, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. online.
- Bode, K & Osborne, R 2014, 'Book History from the Archival Record', in Leslie Howsam (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book, Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 219-236.
- Longley Arthur, P & Bode, K, eds, 2014, Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, London.
- Bode, K & Longley Arthur, P 2014, 'Collecting Ourselves', in Paul Longley Arthur, Katherine Bode (ed.), Advancing Digital Humanities, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, London, pp. 1-12.
- Bode, K & Murphy, T 2014, 'Methods and Canons: An Interdisciplinary Excursion', in Paul Longley Arthur and Katherine Bode (ed.), Advancing Digital Humanities, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, London, pp. 175-193.
- Bode, K 2012, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field, Anthem Press, UK.
- Bode, K & Dale, L 2012, '"Bullshit"? An Australian Perspective; or, What can an Organisational Change Impact Statement tell us about Higher Education in Australia?', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 53, no. November.
- Bode, K 2012, '"Sidelines" and Tradelines: Publishing the Australian Novel, 1860 to 1899', Book History, vol. 15, pp. 93-122.
- Bode, K 2012, 'From British Domination to Multinational Conglomeration?: A Revised Histroy of Australian Novel Publishing, 1950 to 2007', in Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal (ed.), Sold by Millions - Australia's Bestsellers, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 22-45.
- Bode, K 2012, 'Modeling Gender: The 'Rise and Rise' of the Australian Women Novelist', Digital Humanities 2012, ed. Jan Christoph Meister, University of Hamburg, Germany, pp. 119-120.
- Bode, K 2011, ''we're not truckin' around': On and off-road in Samuel Wagan Watson's Smoke Encrypted Whispers', Humanities Research, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109-119.
- Bode, K 2010, 'Publishing and Australian Literature: Crisis, Decline or Transformation?', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 24-48.
- Bode, K 2010, 'Looking (im)properly: Women Objectifying Men's Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction', in Sarah Frantz and Katharina Rennhak (ed.), Women Constructing Men; Female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000, Lexington Books, Lanham, pp. 185-206.
- Bode, K 2009, 'Along Gender Lines: Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1930 to 2006', Australian Literary Studies, vol. 24, no. 3-4, pp. 79-95.
- Bode, K & Dixon, R, eds, 2009, Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press, Sydney.
- Bode, K 2009, 'From British Domination to Multinational Conglomeration? A Revised History of Australian Novel Publishing, 1950 to 2007', in Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon (ed.), Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 194-222.
- Bode, K & Dixon, R 2009, 'Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age?', in Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon (ed.), Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 1-27.
- Bode, K 2008, Damaged Men Desiring Women: Male Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction, VDM Verlag, Saarbracken Germany.
- Bode, K 2008, 'Graphically Gendered: A Quantitative Study of the Relationships between Australian Novels and Gender from the 1830s to the 1930s', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 58, pp. 435-450.
- Bode, K 2008, 'Beyond the Colonial Present: Quantitative Analysis, "Resourceful Reading" and Australian Literary Studies', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), vol. N/A, no. Special Issue - The Colonial Present, pp. 184-197.
- Bode, K 2008, '"Opportunistic Transpositions and Elisions": Roger McDonald's The Ballad of Desmond Kale; or, The Fiction Question: Who Owns Stories?', Antipodes, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 89-95.
- Bode, K 2008, 'Divergent convergences', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 58, pp. 549-550.
- Bode, K 2008, 'Divergent Convergences, Rev. of Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference. Monash University and the University of Queensland, 13-14 December, 2007', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 58, pp. 549 - 550.
- Bode, K 2008, 'The Aussie Battler in Crisis: Shifting Constructions of White Australian Masculinity and National Identity', in Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (ed.), Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader, SSS Publications, New Delhi, pp. 337-57. (Republished)
- Bode, K 2006, 'Aussie Battler in Crisis? Shifting Constructions of White Australian Masculinity and National Identity', Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
- Bode, K 2006, '"Unexpected Effects": Marked Men in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction', Australian Literary Studies (ALS), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 443-59.
- Bode, K 2006, 'Reading (in/and) Miranda', Australian Literary Studies (ALS), vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 356-367.
- Bode, K & Dale, L, eds, 2006, Australian Literary Studies: Special Issue on Reading, vol. 22, no. 3.
- Bode, K 2001, 'The Pregnant Man: Gender, Identity and Sexuality in the Poetry of Dorothy Porter's "Akhenaten"', LiNQ, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 22-29.
Projects and Grants
Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.
- To be continued: Exploring the world of novels in colonial periodicals (Primary Investigator)
