The University of Western Australia

Professor Robert Stuart

Professor
History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2127

Fax

6488 1069

Email

robert.stuart@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.17, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA Sask., MA PhD Tor.

Biography

Rob did his honours BA at the University of Saskatchewan and an MA and a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (researching the latter in Paris during 1973 and 1974), taking up his teaching position at UWA in 1975. He has since taught many units on modern European history and, more recently, on cultural and intellectual history. His research output has focused on the history of French Marxism, but is now concentrated on the ideological dimension of contemporary genre fantasy literature. During the past decade he has filled several administrative roles in the School of Humanities.

Key research

Rob's research interest in French Marxism resulted in 'Marxism at Work: Ideology, Class and French Socialism during the Third Republic' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) and 'Marxism and National Identity during the French Fin de Siècle' (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006), as well as a number of articles.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

He is currently Graduate Research Coordinator for the School of Humanities and Deputy Head of School for Research and Research Training.

Future research

Rob's current research project will result in a book entitled 'The Politics of Middle-earth: Tolkien's ideology', with a number of associated articles. In prospect is a study tentatively entitled ‘The Ideological Imaginary of Contemporary Fantasy Literature’.

Teaching

He is currently responsible for two units in the History programme: HIST2233 'Mythistory: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Historical Imagination' (taught in second semester 2011) and HIST2231 'The Rise and Fall of European Fascism' (to be taught in second semester 2012 as a second-year offering in the new course structure). He will be unit coordinator for the new second-year core unit 'History and Historiography' (to be taught in 2013).

Research profile

Research profile and publications