Professor Peter Hutchings
Biography
Professor Hutchings is the Dean of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts.
Between 2008 and 2010, he worked in the position of General Manager, Programs and Engagement, for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, with responsibility for the development of the ALTC’s grants, awards, and fellowships.
Professor Hutchings was the Associate Dean (Academic) for the College of Arts (2001-2008). He has also undertaken the responsibilities of Head of School of Humanities and Chair of the College Board of Studies as well serving on the UWS Academic Senate. Previously, he worked at The University of Sydney, the University of Hong Kong and in the Boston University Sydney program. He is also the past president and vice-president of the Law and Literature Association of Australia.
Peter Hutchings studied English Literature at The University of Sydney, where he completed his BA (Hons) and PhD. His publications have appeared in local and international refereed journals as well as in the mainstream print media, and he is the author of The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects (London & New York: Routledge, 2001). His current research is on sovereignty and cinema after 9/11.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Art history, cinema studies, critical legal studies, literature, and philosophy.
Selected Publications
Book
2001 The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects (London & New York: Routledge).
Book chapters
2004 "A Disconnected View: Forster, Modernity, and Film," in E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, ed. Christel R. Devadawson (New Delhi: Penguin India): 382–400.
2004 "Sovereign Contempt," in Andrew Kenyon and Peter Rush (eds.), An Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Text, Images, Screens (New York: Elsevier): 269–277.
2003 "Matthys Gerber: Unsettling Taste," in Alan Cruickshank (ed.), BLAZE: Visual Art and Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990-2002 (Adelaide: CASCA).
2001 "Through a Fishwife's Eye: Between Benjamin and Deleuze on the Timely Image," in Terry Smith (ed.), Impossible Presence: Surface and screen in the photogenic era (Sydney/Chicago: Power Publications/Chicago University Press): 101–123.
1997 "On the Beach, Until the End of the World," in Maryanne Dever (ed.), Australia and Asia: Cultural Transactions (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press): 20–32.
1995 "Now and then, and then again," in Melissa Chiu (ed.), John Young: The Double Ground Paintings (Sydney: Australian Art Promotions): 11–23.
1994 "A Disconnected View: Forster, Modernity, and Film," in Jeremy Tambling (ed.), E.M. Forster (London: Macmillan, New Casebooks): 213–28.
1994 "Violence, Censorship and the law," in J. Neville Turner & Pamela Williams (eds.), The Happy Couple: Law and Literature (Sydney: The Federation Press): 179–86.
1991 "The work-shop of filthy animation," in Alan Cholodenko (ed.), The Illusion of Life (Sydney: Power Institute Publications): 161–81.
guest editing of refereed journals
2001 Writing Against Legal Racism: Law and Literature Explorations. Special Issue of Australian Feminist Law Journal 15, ed. Judith Grbich and Peter Hutchings — ISSN 1320-0968. ERAID 33107; Rank: A.
2001 Griffith Law Review Volume 10.2 (ed. William P. MacNeil and Peter J. Hutchings): "Law's Cultural Mediations." ERAID 33364; Rank: A*.
Journal articles — refereed
2009 "Mural Sovereignty: From the Twin Towers to the Twin Walls." Law and Critique 20.2: 133–146. ERAID 33565; Rank: A.
2007 "From Offworld Colonies to Migration Zones: Blade Runner and the fractured subject of jurisprudence." Law, Culture and the Humanities 3.3: 381–397. ERAID 33569; Rank: A.
1999 "Interpreting the Rule of Law." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 12.4: 445–61. ERAID 33430; Rank: A.
1999 "Spectacularizing Crime: Ghostwriting the Law." Law and Critique 10.1: 27–48. ERAID 33565; Rank: A.
1997 "Modern Forensics: Photography and Other Suspects." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 9.2 (Fall/Winter): 229–43. (A condensed version of the 1996 essay.)
1997 "The Ghost of a Smile: Responding to Rex Butler's An Uncertain Smile: Australian Art in the '90s." Practice: a journal of visual, performing and media arts, No. 2 (Spring/Summer): 49–56.
1996 "Modern forensics: photography and other suspects." Australian Feminist Law Journal 7 (September): 37–60. ERAID 33107; Rank: A
1996 "Freedom of speech in Hong Kong & the problem of 'China'." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 8.2 (Fall/Winter): 267–75.
1994 "Violence, Censorship and the Law." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 6.2 (Fall/Winter): 203–24. (This is an expanded version of the earlier essay of the same name.)
1993 "Censorship, Violence and the law." Australian Journal of Law and Society 9: 43–53.
