beyond the silver screen: a history of women, filmmaking and film culture in australia 1920-1990

Mary Tomsic is a Postdoctoral Research Associate researching visual representations of child refugees in the School of Historical and Political Studies at The University of Melbourne. Her teaching and research interests are in cultural history; visual culture; film and history; historical representations in popular culture; Australian film culture and histories of gender and sexualities. She is a co-convener of the Australian Women’s History Network and the Melbourne Feminist History Group.