Rate My Professor Joy Damousi

Throughout her career at the University of Melbourne, Damousi has authored numerous influential books, including The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1999), shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize; Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press, 2005), winner of the Ernest Scott Prize; Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize; Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia (1997); Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Grief in Post-War Australia (2001); and The Transnational Unconscious (2009, co-edited with Mariano Plotkin). She has also edited volumes such as Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound (ANU E Press, 2007, with Desley Deacon) and Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century (1995, with Marilyn Lake). Her scholarship has shaped understandings of Australian social history, humanitarianism, and transnational memory studies.