Assoc Prof Kevin Foster - Researcher Profile

Biography

I was educated in the UK, Canada and Australia and received my Ph.D from Monash University where I have taught since 1995. The principal focus of my research has been on the construction and articulation of national identity in literature, media and film.

Qualifications

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1990

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Institution: The University of Saskatchewan

Year awarded: 1986

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Institution: University of Manchester

Year awarded: 1984

Publications

Books

Foster, K. (ed), 2011, The Information Battlefield: Representing Australians at War, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Foster, K.D., 2009, Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of an Empire, Pluto Press, London, UK.

Foster, K.D. (ed), 2009, What are we doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, North Melbourne Vic, Australia.

Foster, K.D., 1999, Fighting Fictions: War, Narrative & National Identity, Pluto Press, London UK.

Book Chapters

Foster, K., 2011, Beyond the front lines: dispatches from the information battlefield, in The Information Battlefield: Representing Australians at War, eds Kevin Foster, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. XIV-XX.

Foster, K., 2011, Public opinion, public affairs and the ADF's war in Afghanistan, in The Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role, eds Amin Saikal, Melbourne University Press, Carlton VIC Australia, pp. 180-197.

Foster, K., 2011, Reputation management and the reporting of war: a comparison of Dutch, Canadian and Australian approaches to military-media relations in Afghanistan, in The Information Battlefield: Representing Australians At Wars, eds Kevin Foster, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, Australia, pp. 146-161.

Foster, K.D., 2009, Information warfare: The ADF in Afghanistan, in What are we doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War, eds Kevin Foster, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, North Melbourne Vic, Australia, pp. 1-9.

Foster, K.D., 2009, No news is bad news: Afghanistan, the ADF and the Vietnam Syndrome, in What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War, eds Kevin Foster, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 142-161.

Foster, K.D., 2009, Time for an information surge?, in What are we doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War, eds Kevin Foster, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, North Melbourne Vic, Australia, pp. 162-165.

Foster, K.D., 2007, Your Country does not Matter: British and Irish Writers on the Spanish Civil War, in Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War, eds Noel Valis, MLA, New York USA, pp. 206-219.

Foster, K.D., 2005, Small Earthquakes and Major Eruptions: Anglo-Chilean Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973, eds Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Fernando Leiva, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton UK, pp. 41-51.

Foster, K.D., 2004, Imperial myopia: British visions of Argentina, in The Space of Culture: Critical Readings in Hispanic Studies, eds Stewart King and Jeoff Browitt, Associated University Presses, Cranbury NJ USA, pp. 81-99.

Journal Articles

Foster, K.D., 2012, Shadows of Vietnam: Reforming military-media relations in the USA and Australia, Journal of Australian Studies [P], vol 36, issue 4, Routledge, Australia, pp. 459-472.

Foster, K., 2011, Confronting genocide: Latin America, adventure fiction and the moral crisis of British imperialism, Humanities Research [P], vol 17, issue 1, ANU E Press, Australia, pp. 59-74.

Foster, K., 2011, Snobs, yobs, and Italian jobs: European Union, British identity, and the crime film, Journal Of Popular Culture [P], vol 44, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, USA, pp. 1010-1026.

Foster, K., 2010, Embedding control, Overland [P], O.L. Society Ltd., Australia, pp. 70-78.

Foster, K.D., 2008, 'Eyewitness' in a slouch hat: the military, the media and the war in Afghanistan, Overland, vol 193, O.L. Society Limited, Footscray Vic Australia, pp. 14-18.

Foster, K.D., 2007, A Sociable Paradise, Overland, vol 0, issue 189, OL Society Limited, Melbourne, pp. 22-27.

Foster, K.D., 2006, New faces, old fears: migrants, asylum seekers and British identity, Third Text, vol 20, issue 6, Routledge, UK, pp. 683-691.

Foster, K.D., 2005, Disappearing acts: remembering the victims of the dirty war, War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, vol 17, issue 1 & 2, US Airforce Academy, USA, pp. 252-264.

Foster, K.D., 2003, Dreaming of Pele: football and society in England and Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s, Football Studies, vol 6, issue 1, Football Studies Group, Qld Australia, pp. 70-86.

Foster, K.D., 2002, ''A country dying on its feet'': Naipaul, Argentina and Britain, Modern Fiction Studies, vol 48, issue 1, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore USA, pp. 169-193.

Foster, K.D., 2002, O Jogo bonito: futebol na Inglaterra e no Brasil nos anos 50 e 60, Eco Pos, vol 5, issue 1, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brasil, pp. 13-26.

Foster, K.D., 1997, Textualising the Falklands Conflict, Cultural Studies, vol 11, Routledge, London UK, pp. 235-252.

Conference Proceedings

Foster, K.D., 2009, Conflict, culture and reportage: the ANZAC tradition, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the reporting of the war in Afghanistan, Culture in Conflict, 17 June 2009 to 18 June 2009, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom with Cranfield University, Shrivenham, United Kingdom.

Foster, K.D., 2008, The second casualty: the military, media and the Falklands war, Culture in Conflict, 10 June 2008 - 11 June 2008, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham Wiltshire UK, p. 0.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Dilnot, A (Main), Groves, P (Associate), Foster, K (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Getting the Bloody Job Done: The development of the National Vietnam Veterans Museum and their rejec.

Supervisors:

O''Hanlon, S (Main), Foster, K (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

WWII homefront narratives in post-war British popular culture.

Supervisors:

Foster, K (Main), Gerster, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Was the Australian force deployed to South Vietnam a truly independent formation and to what extent,.

Supervisors:

Foster, K (Main), O''Hanlon, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Khamisa, N.

Program of Study:

An analysis of the interpretations of Desperate Housewives by South African female students attending Monash South Africa. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ruddock, A (Main), Bezuidenhout, R (Associate), Foster, K (Associate).