For the last 15 years I’ve been researching and writing about settler colonialism, language, law, medicine and political life among Chinese, South Asian and European communities in Victoria. My work calls for a re-imagining of the multiple languages and medical knowledges, variously marginalised and empowered across the streets, courtrooms, shops, medical rooms, boarding houses and Parliament House of 1890s-1910s Melbourne/Naarm. I’ve translated my archival research to public audiences via walking tours, blogs, creative writing, and the Melbourne City Library-turned online exhibition, Moving Tongues: Language and Migration in 1890s Melbourne.
Beyond “Waste” and In/fertility: Courage and Poetry in the Heart of Rot in
Women of a Certain Courage, ed. Bron Bateman
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Fremantle Press, 2025
‘Architecture, Poetry and Impressions of Bendigo Chinese Herbalist, James Lamsey’,
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Cordite Poetry Review, 2017.
Listen to nodes of empire: speech and whiteness in Victorian hawker's license courts
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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 15(2), 2014
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Transfers 5(3), 104-122, 2015
Counter Networks of Empires: Reading unexpected people in unexpected places
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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 19(2), 2018
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Postcolonial Studies 18(1), 1-18, 2015
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Australian Historical Studies 48 (3), 399-415, 2017
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Postcolonial Studies 23(1), 58-78, 2020
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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 19(2), 2018
Speaking in grids: race, law, and audibility in late colonial Victoria
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La Trobe University Doctoral Thesis, 2014
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Journal of Women's History 28(2), 58-81, 2016
The Balms of White Grief: Indian doctors, vulnerability and pride in Victoria, 1890–1912
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Itinerario 42 (1), 33-49, 2018
What’s in a Grid?: Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne
Global Urban History