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History Program
Staff Profiles
Dr Katie Holmes
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Associate Professor & History Program Coordinator
Room: David Myers Building E135
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2427
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: k.holmes@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Melb., PhD Melb. |
Katie came to LaTrobe in 1994 and since then has been teaching in the History program and Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies. Her most recent teaching includes subjects on Australians at War and the Culture of Gardens and she is developing an online subject on Australasian environmental history. She has also taught at the University of Melbourne and the ANU.
Katie’s main field of research is 20th century Australian history. Within this broad area, she has worked on the uses and meanings of gardens and landscape; women’s autobiographical writings, especially in letters and diaries; war; sexuality; feminism;single women; the experience of time; and the history of disabilities.
Katie is currently writing a book on Australian women’s garden writing, and is also researching women’s changing experiences of landscape and climate. She has worked on the uses and meanings of native plants in Australia, and the culture of gardens. Her first book, Spaces in Her Day (1995) looks at Australian women’s diary writings of the interwar period.
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Katie has published in a range of books and article. Her most recent publications include:
- Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia. Co-authored with Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi, Melbourne University Publishing, 2008
- Green Pens: a collection of garden writing. Co-edited with Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi, MUP: Carlton, 2004.
- Women’s Rights, Human Rights; international historical perspectives. Co-edited with Patricia Grimshaw and Marilyn Lake, Palgrave: New York, 2001.
- Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s. Allen and Unwin: Nth Sydney, 1995. Short listed for the 1996 NSW Premiers award for non-fiction in two categories (non-fiction and literary or cultural criticism); short listed the 1996 Age non-fiction book of the year; short listed for the 1996 ‘Talking Book’ award.
- ‘Marking Time: Australian Women’s Diaries of 1920s & 1930s’. Forthcoming in, Arianne Baggerman & Rudulf Dekker (eds) Controlling Time and Shaping the Self, Brill, 2008.
- ‘Planting Hope with Potatoes’: gardens, memory and place making’. In Marilyn Lake (ed.), Memory Monuments and Memorials, MUP: Carlton, 2006
- ‘Past Ö Present Ö Future Ö: the Future of Feminist History’, in Lilith: a feminist history journal, November 2006, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-12
- ‘Gardening at the Edge: Judith Wright’s desert garden, Mongarlowe, New South Wales’, in Australian Humanities Review, June 2005, www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-July-2005/08Holmes
- ‘”In spite of it all, the garden still stands”: gardens, landscape and cultural history’, in Hsu-Ming and Richard White (eds), Cultural History in Australia, University of NSW Press, 2003.
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- “I have built up a little garden”: the vernacular garden, national identity and a sense of place’, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol 21, no. 2, April-June 2001, pp.115-121.
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Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics
- Marion Jones: World War II soldiers’ diaries
- Helene Pype: War Veterans’ adjustment to civilian life
- Jennifer Mooney (submitted): ‘Living to Order’: Presentation sisters
- Hazel Brimley: Whiting in the Landscape: a screen treatment for dialoguing the past
I have also supervised in the following areas: history of sexuality, women and ageing, women’s wartime diary writing, women’s friendships.
I would like to supervise further in the field of landscape and garden, environmental history.
Research Grants
- ‘Growing Australian: domesticating native plants’. ARC Discovery grant, 2005-2007, exploring the uses and meanings of native gardening, and cultural resistance to it. 2005-2007
- “‘A great and crying need”: A history of Kew Residential Service, 1887 – 2007’. ARC Linkage project, 2005 – 2008, $730,500. With Drs Richard Broome & Chris Bigby (CIs) & Dr Lee-Ann Monk (APDI).
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