Roger Osborne

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Biography

Roger’s research program concentrates on Australian and British literature seen through the lens of book history, print culture, and scholarly editing.   


He is a contributing editor to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, an award-winning series producing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly texts of Conrad's publications. Roger completed his first edition, Under Western Eyes , as co-editor in 2013. His second edition, Nostromo, widely considered Conrad's modernist masterpiece was published in July 2023. Both volumes have received the seal of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions.


Roger’s work on the trans-national nature of Australian print culture has been published widely, and his co-authored book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s, the first of two projected volumes, was published by Sydney University Press in 2018 and shortlisted for the AUHE Prize and the Walter McCrae Russell Award for literary scholarship. The second volume, covering the years 1950s–2000s, is scheduled for publication in 2026.


Roger has worked at the forefront of digital scholarly editing and has an international reputation for this work. His Joseph Furphy Digital Archive was launched in 2015 and continues to grow with new modules added each year. Sydney University Press published The Life of Such is Life: A Cultural History of an Australian Classic, in 2022. This volume was shortlisted for the AUHE Prize, and was joint-winner of the 2023 Walter McRae Russell Award for literary scholarship.


Roger is a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded Special Research Initiative, “Read all about it: Digital participation in Australian Newspapers” (SR200200521, 2021–24). The Project aims to transform understandings of Australian literary history by using innovative digital methods to discover, curate and investigate tens of thousands of unrecorded novels, novellas and short stories in 20th-century Australian newspapers. The results of the project can be seen at The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database.


Digital Projects

To Be Continued (in the twentieth century): https://readallaboutit.com.au/

Joseph Furphy Digital Archive: https://www.austlit.edu.au/furphy

Tom Collins and Company: https://tomcollinsandcompany.github.io/annotate/

Australian Journal Story Book: https://ajstorybook.wordpress.com/

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Teaching Interests

Creative thinking

Critical thinking

Multi-modal writing

Digital narratives


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Chair; Independent Academic


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Osborne, Roger; Peters, Sarah; O'Shannessy, Rosie (2018) From the Inside: An interview with the 'Sto. Amsterdam, Netherlands: [Non-Research Boo...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2014) Magazines and periodicals. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: [Reference Material] ...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2024) 'The Persistence of Print: Editing Nostromo for the Cambridge Edition of the W. Script and Print, . ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2023) '“The Covers Gave Me More Trouble than Anything Else”: Illustrating R. G. Camp. Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (1):10-26. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger; Carter, David (2021) 'Australian Authors in the House of William Morrow: Writing Goo. Antipodes, 35 (1-2):145-162. ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2021) 'Jon Cleary and Sundowner Productions Pty Ltd: The Making of a Textual Craftsm. Script and Print, 45 (4):141-155. ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2020) '(Re)presenting the Socialist Core of Furphy's Vision: Rigby's Romance as type. Journal of Australian Studies, 44 (1):65-81. [DOI] ...
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Osborne, Roger (2020) ''This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn': the Palmer Abridgement of Jos. Australian Literary Studies, 35 (1). [DOI] ...
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Lundberg, Anita; Osborne, Roger; Ancuta, Katarzyna; Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Agnieszka (2019) 'Tropica. Etrop, 18 ...
Journal Publication Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2019) 'A fleeting infatuation with all things Australian: American editions of Austr. Antipodes, 33 (1):48-58. ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2017) ''An editor regrets': R. G. Campbell's Australian Journal, 1926–1955'. Script and Print, 41 (4):226-242. ...
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Osborne, Roger (2017) 'Dairy farm philosopher: J.P. McKinney's 'According to Noonan' stories and Ron. Queensland Review, 24 (2):293-304. [DOI] ...
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Osborne, Roger; Whitlock, Gillian (2016) 'Carpentaria: reading with the dirt of blurbs and front pag. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian L, 16 (2). ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger; Gerber, Anna; Hunter, Jane (2016) 'Archiving, editing, and reading on the AustESE wo. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 31 (4):850-865. [DOI] ...
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Osborne, Roger (2015) 'The city as archive: mapping David Malouf's Brisbane'. Queensland Review, 22 (2):118-130. [DOI] ...
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Osborne, Roger; Whitlock, Gillian (2013) 'Benang: a worldly book'. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian L, 13 (3). ...
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Osborne, Roger (2013) ''Making the archives talk': towards an electronic edition of Joseph Furphy's . Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 13 (1). ...
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Osborne, Roger; Allen, Cherie (2012) 'Networked reading: using AustLit to assist reading and underst. English in Australia, 47 (2):18-26. ...
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Kilner, Kerry; Osborne, Roger (2011) Sustainable Data from Digital Research: Humanities Perspectives...
Conference Publication Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
Gerber, Anna; Osborne, Roger; Hunter, Jane (2013) Digital Humanities 2013 eResearch tools to suppor Lincoln, NE, USA, . ...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger (2023) 'Selling Australian Stories to the World: The Dynamics of Twentieth-Century Pu In: Osborne, Roger (2023) Selling Australian Stories to the World: The Dynam...
Osborne, Roger (2020) 'Expressing a new civilisation: authorship, publishing, and reading in the 189 In: Osborne, Roger (2020) Expressing a new civilisation: authorship, publish...
Dezuanni, Michael; Foth, Marcus; Mallan, Kerry; Hughes, Hilary; Osborne, Roger (2018) 'Social living In: Dezuanni,...
Whitlock, Gillian; Osborne, Roger (2016) 'The international reception of Kim Scott’s works: a case s In: Whitlock, Gillian, and Osborne, Roger (2016) The inte...
Bode, Katherine; Osborne, Roger (2014) 'Book history from the archival record' In: Bode, Katherine, and Osborne, Roger (2014) Book history...
Osborne, Roger (2013) 'Voss and America's middlebrow library: Book-of-the-Month Club chooses Voss' In: Osborne, Roger (2013) Voss and America's middlebrow library: Book-of-the...
Carter, David; Osborne, Roger (2006) 'Periodicals' In: Carter, David, and Osborne, Roger (2006) Periodicals. I...
Osborne, Roger (2023) Nostromo [by Joseph Conrad]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [DOI] ...
Osborne, Roger (2022) The Life of Such is Life: a cultural history of an Australian classic. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press. [DOI] ...
Carter, David; Osborne, Roger (2018) Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press. ...
Book Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
Osborne, Roger; Eggert, Paul (2013) Under Western Eyes [by Joseph Conrad]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ...
Book Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU