Qualifications 

Bachelor of Arts (Honours - First Class) - University of Western Sydney 

Doctor of Philosophy - Macquarie University 

Dr Hunt has taught a range of Australian History, Australian Studies, Australian Cultural
History and Modern History subjects across seven Australian universities since 1999. Her
research interests include various aspects of Australian cultural history, among them
female cultural authority; cultural histories of running and triathlon; and the
interrelationship between sport and understandings of identity and place. 

In 2009, Dr Hunt received the Fryer Library Award for her project "Daphne Mayo:
three snapshots". This project allowed Hunt to continue her research into female
cultural authority- in this instance, the strategies that sculptor Daphne Mayo developed
in order to open up Queensland to the arts and artistic thinking endorsed by the art
worlds of Europe, America, and the rest of the world. Hunt has published articles in
numerous journals, including Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian
Studies, Australian Cultural History, Australian Literary Studies, and has work
forthcoming in Hecate, and the major international journal Women's History Review.
Hunt has also contributed numerous entries to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and
delivered conference and seminar papers around Australia, and in Scotland. She is
currently working on two book projects: a cultural history of triathlon in Australia, and
the sporting histories of the Gold Coast.

Articles

Trafficking modernities: Gender and cultural authority in the case of the woman organist, Lilian Frost, Hecate: An interdesciplinary journal of women's liberation (2011)

According to the local press, Frost as both soloist and accompanist on piano and organ...

 

Finding a place for women in Australian cultural history: Female cultural activism in Sydney, 1900-1940, Australian historical studies (2004)

With only a few exceptions, the endeavours of culturally active women appear as irrelevant or...

 

“Fellowing” women: Sydney women writers and the organisational impulse, Australian cultural history (2004)
 

“Victors” and “victims”: Men, women, modernism and art in Australia, Journal of Australian studies (2003)

Extract:

It is relatively easy to misread the history of artistic modernism in Australia....

 

Book Chapters

Daphne Mayo collection, Found in Fryer: Stories from the Fryer Library collection (2010)
 

Conference Papers

Daphne Mayo’s self-portrait: Australian sculptor; experiment with colour; or woman with toothache?, Paper presented at the Australian Historical Association biennial conference (2010)

A self-portrait by Australian sculptor Daphne Mayo, housed, unframed, in an art file in the...

 

Art worthy of the state: Daphne Mayo and her cultural mission, Paper presented at the 2009 EMSAH research seminars (2009)

The Queensland sculptor, Daphne Mayo, believed in and exercised what might be regarded as a...