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Dr Peter Doyle
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Senior lectureremail: peter.doyle@mq.edu.au phone: (02) 9850 2150 fax: (02) 9850 6776 location: Y3A 151 |
BACKGROUND
Peter Doyle is an author of fiction and non-fiction books. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD from Macquarie University. He is a musician with an extensive history in the Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes and is an exhibiting visual artist.
TEACHING
RESEARCH AREAS
Peter's PhD concerned renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording, and histories of twentieth century popular music remain among his research interests. As an author of historically-based Australian crime novels, Peter also retains a research interest in fiction and non-fiction crime writing in Australia and overseas. He has a (research and production) interest in comics and the graphic novel.
He also worked as a part time curator at the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney, for whom he curated the 'Crimes of Passion' exhibition (2002-2003) and 'City of Shadows: inner city crime and mayhem, 1912-1948' (November 2005-February 2007) which examined inner-Sydney in the first half of the twentieth century via police crime and accident scene photographs.
Recent work researching early Sydney police mug shot photography has informed his book, Crooks Like Us (2009).
PUBLICATIONS
Non-fiction books:Crooks Like Us, Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 2009.
City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs, 1912-1948, Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 2005. City of Shadows won a 2006 National Trust/Energy Australia Heritage Award in the Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government division.
Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960, Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England, 2005. Echo and Reverb won the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2006 award for Best Research in Record Labels and General History.
Contributor to John Whiteoak and A Scott Maxwell, (eds) The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, Sydney: Currency, 2004
Novels:
Get Rich Quick, Minerva 1996. Co-winner of 1997 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel
Amaze Your Friends, Milsons Point, Random House, 1998. Winner 1999 Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Novel
The Devil's Jump, Milsons Point, Arrow, 2001
Get Rich Quick published in Japanese translation by Bunjei Shinju, 2002.
US edition of Get Rich Quick published by Criminy! Verse Chorus Press, 2004
The Devil's Jump published in revised edition, Criminy! Verse Chorus Press, 2008
Articles:
'"Bombora", "Malabar Mansion": the psychogeography of the Sydney sonic sublime', Transforming Cultures eJournal, 'Music and the production of place,' http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/TfC/issue/view/65/showToc vol 4, no 1, 2009.
'If Walls Could Talk: Spatialising Narrative in the Museum', SCAN, http://www.scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=119, September 2008
'The Fat Sheila Hit Me' (with Eddie Campbell), DeeVee 2007
'Citizen Dylan', Studies in Documentary Film, vol 1 number 1, pp67-76
'Writing Sound: Popular music in Australian Fiction' Altitude, issue.8, 2007 website: http://www.altitude21c.com
'Signs and Wonders: Little Richard in Australia, 1957' Meanjin, Vol65, No3, 2006
'Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930' Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005
http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=67
'Lost City Found: interview with Luc Sante' Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=68
'From "My blue heaven" to "Race with the Devil": echo, reverb and (dis)ordered space in early popular music recording' Popular Music, May 2004 23/1 pp31-49
'Three way stretch', UTS Review, November, 2000 6/2 pp126-140
'Flying saucer rock'n'roll: the Australian press confronts early rock'n'roll music' Perfect Beat, July, 1999, 4/3, pp24-47
'The socio-semiotics of electricity substations' in Social Semiotics, No.1, 1991.
Peter has written feature articles, reviews and short pieces for The Bulletin, HQ and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has also been a columnist for Max and Sydney City Hub.