Joy Damousi

Professor Joy Damousi is Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. She is the author of numerous books, including Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (Cambridge, 2001); Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press, 2005; winner of the Ernest Scott Prize) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (Cambridge 2010). She is a former president of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Australian Historical Association.