Under Development
Edited collection entitled 'The Girl in History', to appear as a special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies (scheduled 2010).
In Press
'A Hard Culture? Religion and Politics in Turn-of-the-Century Australian History', Journal of Australian Politics and History (scheduled 2010).
Refereed Articles
"Leary Kin: The Australian Larrikin and the Blackface Minstrel Dandy". Journal of Social History 42.3 (2009): 677-95.
"The Manliness of Radical Sentiment: The Case of George Napier Birks". Australian Historical Studies 39.3 (2009): 322-37.
"The Larrikin's Hop: Larrikinism and Late-Colonial Popular Theatre". Australasian Drama Studies, 52 (April 2008): 131-47.
"A Man of Civic Sentiment: The Case of William Guthrie Spence". Journal of Australian Studies, 2:1 (March 2008): 63-76.
"Feminism, Mateship and the Brotherhood of Man in 1890s Adelaide". History Australia, 5.1 (April 2008): 7.1-7.14 ((doi: 10.2104/ha080007).
"Voting For Pleasure, Or, A View From a Late-Victorian Theatre Gallery". M/C, 10/11.6 (April 2008), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0804/02-bellanta.php
"Engineering the Kingdom of God: Irrigation, Science and the ‘Social Christian’ Millennium, 1880-1914". Journal of Religious History, 32:1 (2008): 1–15.
"Transcending Class? Australia’s Single Taxers in the early 1890s". Labour History 92 (May 2007): 17–30.
"Mobilising Fictions, or, Romancing the Australian Desert, 1890–1908". History Australia 1:1 (December 2003): 15–30.
"Land nationalisers, single taxers and environmentalism in late nineteenth century Australia". Melbourne Historical Journal 32 (December 2004): 13–30.
"Fabulating the Australian Desert: Australia’s Lost Race Romances, 1890–1908". Philament 3 (April 2004) (www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue3_Critique_Bellanta.htm).
"Clearing Ground for the New Arcadia: Utopia, Labour and Environment in 1890s Australia". In G T Espak, S Fatnowna and D Woods (eds), Jumping the Queue, Journal of Australian Studies, New Talents 21C edition, 72 (2002): 13–20.
"Irrigation Millennium: Science, Religion and the New Garden of Eden". ERAS 3 (June 2002) (www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras/edition3Index.htm).
Book Chapters
"The Davenport Brothers Down Under: Theatre, Belief and Modernity in 1870s Australia", in Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly (eds). Impact of the Modern: Everyday Modernities in Australia, Uni. of Sydney Press, 2009, 171-84.
"16 August 1890: The Maritime Strike Begins", in Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts (eds). Turning Points in Australian History, UNSW Press, 2009, 74-86.
"Marie d’Oignies, Marguerite Porete and ‘Authentic’ Mystic Piety", in J. O. Ward and Francesca C. Bussey (eds) Worshipping Women: Misigyny and Mysticism in the Middle Ages. Sydney: University of Sydney, 1997.
Selected Reviews and Other Writings
'White Australia and Sonny Clay's Colored Idea: The Story of an Ill-Fated Tour', Extempore 2 (2009): 129-30.
Review of Anna Poletti, Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture, MUP, 2008. In Journal of Australian Studies 33.1 (2009): 110-11.
Review of David Malouf, Revolving Days. University of Queensland Press, 2008. In Journal of Australian Studies 32.2 (June 2008): 279-80.
Review of Jacqueline Dickenson. Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006. In Australian Fabian News 47.1 (January 2007): 17.
‘Ian Abdulla’s Riverland: Personal identity and the ethics of belonging’, Review of Ian Abdulla’s work, 8 March 2007 http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/writingplace/2007/03/ian_abdulla_memory_and_the_riv.html.
Review of Victoria Haskins. One Bright Spot. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. In API Review of Books 42 (April 2006) (http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1403947449).
Review of Ian Morrison. A New City: Photographs of Melbourne’s Land Boom. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2003. In API Review of Books 44,(July 2006).