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Dr Brian Musgrove
Brian Musgrove has done extensive research into drug literature, pharmaceutical histories, bohemianism and subcultures from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries: from English Romanticism to the 'chemical generation' of the 1990s. This has ranged across the fields of writing and culture in Britain, America, France and Australia.
His special focus has been on the way that drug writers and subcultures have positioned themselves - as both dissident factions and as social commentariats. A specific objective of this research has been to identify the continuous thematic thread, from the 1790s to the present, which draws the drug experience and overground economy, Capital's processes of dependency, into a rhetorical parallel.
He has published several articles on the subject, the most recent of which is 'Narco-Travelogues and Capital's Appetites', in the international journal Studies in Travel Writing (2003). His book White Lines: Drugs, Writing and Society 1797-1997 is forthcoming from Athlone Press, London. He has also begun research into the representation of Australian youth, moral panics, drugs and the discourse of national modernisation in the 1960s. An article on this - 'Does Coffee Lead to Heroin: Youth, Drugs and the Discourse of Australian Modernisation' - has appeared in the Australian Studies journal Eucalypt (2004).
