Dr David Dunstan - Researcher Profile

Biography

David works in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer. He co-ordinates the Graduate Publishing and Editing Program and teaches both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His specialist areas of research interest include the study of Australian society and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, biography, heritage, international exhibitions, industrial and regional communities, Melbourne, publishing studies, newspaper and media history, wine and viticulture, the history of sport and Australians and Australian communities abroad.

Related Links:

• Dr David Dunstan Senior Lecturer Australian Studies and Co-ordinator Graduate Publishing Program

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF EDITING AND PUBLISHING

Institution: RMIT University

Year awarded: 2005

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1983

TRAINED SECONDARY TEACHERS CERTIFICATE

Institution: State College of Victoria at Hawthorn

Year awarded: 1972

Teaching Commitment

APG4800/5862 Publishing History, Culture and Commerce

APG5859/5860/5861 Publishing Research Thesis

ATS1260 Sport and Society in Australia

ATS2393/3393 Australian Sports Writing

Community Service

Chair Victorian Working Party, Australian Dictionary of Biography

Member Editorial Board, Section Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Houses of Horror: a study of murders in Victoria.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main), Baker, A (Associate), Heenan, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

'There's More to a Coffee Table Book than Meets the Eye:' A study of the role of the coffee table bo.

Supervisors:

Poland, L (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A Noble Son of Empire. The Short Life of 2nd Lt. WHC Buntine, MC, RFC." .

Supervisors:

Heenan, T (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

George Higinbotham: The Private Man Behind Victoria's Great Colonial Statesman.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main), Rickard, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Style matters - the influence of editorial style on the publishing of English.

Supervisors:

Poland, L (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Allen, T.

Program of Study:

Homesickness: myths and stereotypes in Australian visual culture (1940 to the present). (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main), Gregory, A (Associate).

Student:

De Lacy, G.

Program of Study:

Literary life in Melbourne in the 1930s. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Arnold, J (Joint-Co), Dunstan, W (Joint).

Student:

Domotor, I.

Program of Study:

GENTLE WOMEN IN THE BUSH: A HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION OF BRITISH WOMEN'S PERSONAL NARRATIVES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY RURAL AUSTRALIA. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Rickard, J (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).

Student:

Macwhirter, P.

Program of Study:

HAREWOOD, WESTERN PORT: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM AN AUSTRALIAN VERANDAH. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Rickard, J (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).

Student:

Mansfield, J.

Program of Study:

Book/Cover. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main).

Student:

Mclean, A.

Program of Study:

RESEARCH TITLE UNAVAILABLE. 2000.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main), Historical Supervisor, I (Associate).

Student:

Mclean, K.

Program of Study:

CULTURE, COMMERCE AND AMBIVALENCE: A STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN BOOK PUBLISHING. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Arnold, J (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).

Student:

Sturrock, M.

Program of Study:

BISHOP OF MAGNETIC POWER: JAMES MOORHOUSE IN MELBOURNE 1876-1886. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main), Bouma, G (Associate).

Student:

Wells, J.

Program of Study:

'One voice for Australia': a marketing history of Australia's national tourist organisation 1929-1967. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Joint-Co).

Student:

Williams, T.

Program of Study:

Melbourne and country Victoria: the drift to the city 1916-1918. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Dunstan, W (Main).