Dr Mary Zournazi PhD (UWSyd Nepean), BA Hons (Macquarie), BA DipEd (Macquarie) Location: 19:2006 Telephone: 0242 215191 Email: maryz@uow.edu.au
	Photo copyright: Effy Alexakis, 2007.

Biography

Dr Mary Zournazi is a senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies. She has recently published Keywords to War (Scribe, 2007), and produced an accompanying radio series for ABC Radio National. She is currently co-writing a book on Peace and Cinema with the German film director, Wim Wenders.

Research Profile

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Books:

• 2007 Keywords to War — Reviving Language in an Age of Terror, Scribe: Melbourne, 202 pages.
• 2003 Hope — New Philosophies for Change, Routledge: New York, 288 pages.
• 1998 Foreign Dialogues — Memories, Translations, Conversations. Pluto Press: Sydney, 196 pages.        

Books Co-edited:

• 2003  (co-editor John Lechte) The Kristeva Critical Reader.Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 256 pages.
• 1998  (co-editor John Lechte) After the Revolution — On Kristeva. Artspace Press: Sydney, 177 pages.
• 1995  (co-editors Justine Lloyd and Carolyn Williams) Out/Post — New Perspectives in Contemporary Thoughts. UWS: Sydney 100 pages.

Book Chapters And Published Papers:

• 2006  ‘Blush – Faces of Shame’, Cultural Studies Review, vol 12, no 2,pp 211-216
• ‘Kairos or the foreignness of my tongue – A Reflection’, Life Writing, No 2, February pp141-148.
•  ‘Preface’ to Like a Sweet Cup of Tea’ , Community Resources Unit: Brisbane.
  ‘Hope and Politics’ in City, Democracy and Art, Istanbul Cultural   Foundation: Turkey, pp51-70.
• 2002/3 'Hope, Passion Politics', Soundings — Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue 22, Winter, pp70-85.
• 2003  ‘Foreign Bodies’, Encounters with Alphonso Lingis, edited by Alex Hooke and Walt Fuchs, Lexington Books: US, pp169-188.
• 2002 Navigating movements’, 21 C online magazine, www.21cmagazine.com
  ‘Variations on the Theme of Hope’, Australian Financial Review, November 15.
• 2001 ‘The Politics of Refugees in Australia’, Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, June 5.
  ‘Hope, Passion’, Politics, Contretemps, On-line philosophy journal, May.
   ‘Something to Live for’ 24 Hours Magazine, June, ABC Australia.
• 2000 ‘Senses of Revolt’ in Zarez, Comma, June (Croatian translation).
  ‘Sexualities, Identities, New Aboriginalities’ in Carloine McKenzie Australie autoportraits, Editions de L’aub: Paris.
• 1999 'Scent, Sound and Cinema' in Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cinema Interval, Routledge:  New York, pp247-266. 
  'Foreign Dialogues' in Multicultural Alliance Arts Review, Sydney: Multicultural Arts Alliance: Sydney.
• 1998  'Historical Fictions, Uncanny Homes', After the Revolution, eds John Lechte and Mary Zournazi, Artspace Press: Sydney, pp63-76.
• 1997  'Love and Betrayal — Feminist Generations and (M)other Tongues', Thirty Something Library Collection, Macquarie University: Sydney.
• 1995 '“The Queen Victoria of Bush Cuisine”: Foreign incorporation and oral consumption within the nation', An Inquiry into the State of Anglo-Saxonness, Communal/Plural, UWS: Nepean.   
  1994  Travelling Stories: Exiles, Foreignness and Communal Life', in Out/Post — New Perspectives in Contemporary Thought, ed Mary Zournazi, Carolyn Williams, and Justine Lloyd,UWS: Nepean, pp13-26.
• 'Strange Others: Kristeva on Foreignness', Women's Studies Working Papers, 20, Monash University: Melbourne.
• 1993 'Strangers to Ourselves' in special issue Gender and Ethnicity, Australian
  Feminist Studies, Summer, pp269-271.

Television Broadcasts And Production/Public Culture:

• 2005 Cultural Commentator, Vulture ABC TV
• 1999  2 Shot ABC Television, half hour discussion with Australian writer, Christos Tsiolkas, produced and presented by Mary Zournazi
• Radio Broadcasts And Production /Public Culture:
• 2007  Monthly film and cultural reviewer for John Safran Sundays, Triple JJJ, ABC Radio.
• 2007 Keywords to War Radio Series, ABC Radio National, October/November.
• 2005-6 Regular cultural commentator for ABC Radio National, Saturday Breakfast.
• 2005-6 Film and Book reviewer for ABC Radio National Breakfast
• 2004   Night Air, Cultural Reviews, March, May, June, December
• 2003  Hope, Perspective, ABC Radio National. Mad Love Radio Feature, March, ABC Classic FM. Hope, Radio Eye, ABC Radio National, February.
• 2002  Review panellist for Night Club, ABC Radio National
• 2001 ‘Walking with the Surrealists’ Radio Feature, Listening Room, ABC Classic FM.
• 2000  Hope — Radio Feature. Produced by Mary Zournazi and Cathy Peters Broadcast ABC Radio National, Radio Eye, December 30 — Special New Year Feature program. Rebroadcast June, 2001.
• ‘Foreign Dialogues’ — translation of the book into Croatian for Radio Zagreb, ‘Protocols of the Century’, Croatia, May.
• 1999  ‘Spectres of Place’ — radio feature with Christos Tsiolkas, Radio Eye, ABC Radio National/NSW Carnivale Festival, Australia, broadcast September.
• 1998-9 ‘Foreign Dialogues’ radio series (based on the book)
  Eight Episodes, Produced by Mary Zournazi, Matthew Leonard and Brent Clough, Radio Eye, ABC Radio National, Australia, Broadcast February/March, rebroadcast September.
  1998    ‘Kairos ’, short reading and story, Arts Today, ABC Radio National, November.

Fellowships, Grants, Awards, Commissions:

• 2007   Visiting Fellowship by invitation, Institute of Global Justice, April-May, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
• 2006-7 ABC Radio National Commission for Keywords to War
• 2006 Early Career Researcher Publishing Research Grant, University of Wollongong
• 2005 New Researcher Grant, University of Wollongong
  Staff Research Assistance Grant, University of Wollongong.
• 2005   ABC Radio National Commission for ‘Anti-Globalisation, Keywords’.
• 2004   Writer in Residence, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, June.
• 2002  Visiting Junior Scholar Fellowship Program, Peter Wall Institute for Advance Studies, University of British Columbia.
• 2002/3ABC Radio Audio Arts, Commission for Anti-Globalisation Protest Movements, radio feature.
• 2001/2ABC Radio Audio Arts, Commission for Mad Love, radio feature.
• 2001  ABC Radio Audio Arts, Commission for Walking with the Surrealists, radio feature.\
• 2001  Alliance Francaise, Sydney and French Embassy Financial Assistance For French Study, July.
• 2000  ABC Radio National Commission for Hope radio feature
• 2000  NIDA Vocal Performance Award.
• 2000  Alliance Francaise Sydney Financial Assistance For French Study, August.
• 2000  French Embassy Translation Research Funding.
• 1999  ABC Television Commission to present and produce 2 Shot program.
• 1998  ABC Radio National Commission for Foreign Dialogues series
• 1996  Humanities and Social Sciences Support Fund for Translation, (University of Western Sydney).
• Women’s Research Centre Small Grant for Research  (University of Western Sydney
• Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies Small Grant for Research (University of Western Sydney).
• 1995  University of Western Sydney Humanities and Social Sciences Travelling Fellowship
• 1993  Nepean Postgraduate Research Award, University of Western Sydney.

Last reviewed: 28 October, 2008