Biography
Dr Sarah Pinto is a Senior Lecturer in History and the Course Director of the Bachelor of Arts at Deakin University. She is an Australian historian with research interests in public and popular history, the history and politics of emotion, and the study of place. She has published widely in these areas in local and international journals and edited collections, often working collaboratively with colleagues from a range of other disciplines.
Sarah is the lead editor of the collection Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space: Conversations, Investigations and Research (with Shelley Hannigan, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs and Emma Charlton, Springer, 2019). She is currently researching the remembrance of Indigenous peoples and histories in Australian cities. A monograph on this research, entitled Places of Reconciliation, is contracted with Melbourne University Publishing (forthcoming 2020).
Read more on Sarah's profileResearch interests
Australian history, the history of emotions, public and popular history, gender and sexuality
Units taught
AIA105 Visions of Australia: Time and Space From 1700 to 2010
AIX290 Australia Today: An Introduction to Australia
Publications
Interdisciplinary unsettlings of place and space: An introduction to the conversation
Sarah Pinto, Shelley Hannigan, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Emma Charlton
(2019), pp. 1-15, Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space: Conversations, investigations and research, Singapore, B1
Sarah Pinto
(2019), pp. 197-213, Interdisciplinary unsettlings of place and space. Conversations, investigations and research, Singapore, B1
Self-care for academics: a poetic invitation to reflect and resist
S O'Dwyer, S Pinto, S McDonough
(2018), Vol. 19, pp. 243-249, Reflective practice, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Kristy Hess, Sarah Pinto
(2018), pp. 1-17, Media history, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Casualisation, mindfulness and the working lives of academics
S Pinto, Kirstie Close
(2018), pp. 217-230, Mindfulness in the Academy: Practices and Perspectives from Scholars, Singapore, B1
Casualisation, mindfulness and the working lives of academics
S Pinto, K Close
(2018), pp. 217-230, Mindfulness in the academy: practices and perspectives from scholars, Singapore, B1
The history of emotions in Australia
S Pinto
(2017), Vol. 48, pp. 103-114, Australian Historical Studies, C1
S Pinto
(2017), Vol. 21, pp. 5671-585, Rethinking history, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Women in love and war: the second world war in Australian film and television
S Pinto
(2017), pp. 145-170, The popular culture of romantic love in Australia, North Melbourne, Vic., B1
S Pinto
(2016), pp. 157-170, Small screens: essays on contemporary Australian television, Melbourne, Vic., B1
Unsettling the revival: Australian historical film as national critique
S Pinto
(2015), pp. 118-129, The fiction of history, Abingdon, Eng., B1
K Holmes, S Pinto
(2013), pp. 308-331, Cambridge history of Australia, Melbourne, Vic, B1-1
S Pinto
(2012), pp. 205-209, Making film and television histories : Australia and New Zealand, London, England, B1-1
Emotional histories and historical emotions: looking at the past in historical novels
S Pinto
(2010), Vol. 14, pp. 189-207, Rethinking History, Oxford, UK, C1-1
'These infants are future Australians': making the nation through intercountry adoption
K Murphy, S Pinto, D Cuthbert
(2010), Vol. 34, pp. 141-161, Journal of Australian Studies, Oxford, UK, C1-1
S Pinto
(2010), pp. 115-127, Frontier Skirmishes: Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia After 1992, Heidelberg, Germany, B1-1
History, fiction and The Secret River
S Pinto
(2010), pp. 179-197, Lighting dark places: essays on Kate Grenville, Amsterdam, Netherlands, B1-1
'I ain't queer' : Love, masculinity and history in Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2006)
L Boucher, S Pinto
(2007), Vol. 15, pp. 311-330, Journal of men's studies, Harriman, Tenn., C1-1
Fighting for legitimacy : masculinity, political voice and Ned Kelly
S Pinto, L Boucher
(2006), Vol. 10, pp. 1-29, Journal of interdisciplinary gender studies, Newcastle, N. S. W., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Taking notice: the social and emotional impact of war in a regional Australian community
Dr Sarah Pinto, A/Prof Kristy Hess
- 2019: $2,844
Supervisions
Lauren Robinson
Thesis entitled: Places of Pleasure and Freedom: Victorian Women on the Land (1835-1901)
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences