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- 1985-2017 (Creation)
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1 folder
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Biographical history
Irmtraud Petersson was born on 6 April 1941 in Germany and came to Australia in 1984. She received an MA (1966, Universität München) and a PhD (1988, The University of Queensland), specialising in Australian literature. She published several articles on Australian fiction and was a lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. In 2021 she helped establish the Laurie Hergenhan Scholarship in Australian Literary Studies. She died on 9 September 2022.
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Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1985-2017
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Thirty one letters, mostly incoming, and documents relating to Irmtraud Petersson’s PhD thesis on German images in Australian fiction. Correspondents include: Stephen Jeffries (Monash University), 3 letters; Dr John Fletcher (German Department, University of Sydney), 1 letter; Fred Dobberstein , 2 letters; Dirk Kruger (Letters are in German), 1 letter; Graeme Powell (Manuscripts Librarian, National Library of Australia), email trail; David Martin (13 letters, 2 postcards); Bruce Dawe (1 handwritten letter); and Walter Kaufmann.
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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This collection has been cited in: German images in Australian literature from the 1940s to the 1980s / Irmtraud Petersson. PhD Thesis, The University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, 1988.
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- Petersson, Irmtraud (Subject)
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Revised
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Revised, Linda Justo, 8-Oct-2021. Revised, Amanda Main, 24-Jun-2019. Revised, 23-May-2019. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.