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Notes on contributor
Gillian Whitlock is a Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities. Her most recent book is ‘Postcolonial Life Narrative: Testimonial Transactions' (OUP 2015) and she is currently working on asylum seeker artefacts in the archives for a book ‘The Testimony of Things'.