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Dr. Amanda Laugesen Amanda Laugesen completed her PhD in 2000 in the History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Her doctoral thesis was a study into public historical memory in the American West in the late 19th and 20th century. Subsequent to finishing her PhD, she worked at the Australian National Dictionary Centre researching historical aspects of Australian English and teaching American history in the History Department at the ANU. She took up a position as lecturer in History at USQ at the beginning of 2004.
Publications include numerous articles in journals such as Kansas History, Libraries and Culture, Journal of the Australian War Memorial and Australasian Journal of American Studies. In 2002, her Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia was published by OUP, Australia, and in April 2005, Diggerspeak: the Language of Australians at War will be published (also by OUP, Australia). Her current research projects are a study of Australian soldiers' reading in the First and Second World Wars, and a study of popular attitudes towards and representations of veterans in the USA during the 20th century. She also takes an interest in issues to do with historiography (and recently contributed entries to the forthcoming Companion to Women's Historical Writing, Palgrave Macmillan), and with race and identity politics in the United States. She is also a member of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), and of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA).