Professor Vera Mackie is an ARC Future Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. She is currently working on a research project on Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region. Vera has varied teaching, research, administrative and supervisory experience in the fields of Japanese language and linguistics, Japanese history, gender studies and cultural studies. In addition to previous positions at Swinburne, the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology, she has been a Visiting Professor at Victoria University, Ochanomizu University and Hitotsubashi University. She is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network, and was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts, 2003-2005.
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Managing borders and managing bodies in contemporary Japan, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2010)
Matters of border control in twenty-first-century Japan interact with current social issues involving demography, the...
Modernism and Colonial Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Japan, in P. Brooker, A. Gasiorek, D. Longworth & A. Thacker (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010)
This chapter surveys the development of modernism in art, graphic art, literature and poetry in...
Osutoraria no daigaku ni okeru Nihongo Kyoiku oyobi Nihon Kenkyu no Genjo to Genkai [Japanese Language and Japanese Studies in Australian Universities: The Current Situation and Constraints], in C. Kinoshita-Thomson & S. Makino (eds.), Nihongo Kyoiku to Nihon Kenkyu no Renkei: Naiyo Jushi-gata Kokugo Kyoiku ni Mukete (2010)
In this chapter I consider the relationship between the teaching of Japanese language and Japanese...
Reading Lolita in Japan, in T. Aoyama & B. Hartley (eds), Girl Reading Girl in Japan (2010)
... my mother had gone into labor, was wheeled into the delivery room and set...
The cultural dimensions of human rights advocacy in the Asian region, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
Wendy Brown has commented on the importance of recognising the “interval” between theory and politics,...