ACU (Australian Catholic University)

Margaret (Meggie) Hutchison's research focuses on the history of war, culture and memory. She completed her PhD in the School of History at the Australian National University in 2015. Her doctoral thesis explored Australia's first official art scheme of the First World War and was shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's Serle Award for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian History. Her first book, Painting War: A history of Australia's First World War art scheme, will be published with Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays on painting, memory and war which will be published with the University of Alabama Press. She has won several international grants and awards in support of her research, including an Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship and an International Council for Canadian Studies Grant. She has published and taught widely on war and culture, is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Historian Association.

Monographs and Edited Collections 

Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout (eds.). Painting, Memory and the First World War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press (forthcoming 2019).

Margaret Hutchison. Painting War: A history of Australia's First World War art scheme. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018).

Margaret Hutchison and Emily Robertson (eds.). "Art, War and Truth". Journal of War and Culture Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 2015): 103-108.

Journal Articles

Margaret Hutchison and Emily Robertson. "Art, War and Truth: Images of Conflict". Journal of War and Culture Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 2015): 103-108. https://doi.org/10.1179/1752627215Z.00000000065

Margaret Hutchison. "Accurate to the Point of Mania': Eyewitness testimony and memory making in Australia official paintings of the First World War". Australian Historical Studies. Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 2015): 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2014.996574

Book Chapters

Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout. "Introduction: Painting, Memory and the First World War", in Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout (eds.), Painting, Memory and the First World War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press (forthcoming 2019).

Margaret Hutchison. "Gatekeepers of Memory: Charles Bean, John Treloar and the strange fate of Charles Bryant's HMAS Australia on the way to her doom", in Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout (eds.), Painting, Memory and the First World War.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press (forthcoming 2019).

Margaret Hutchison. "'Accurate to the Point of Mania': Eyewitness testimony and memory making in Australia's official paintings of the First World War", in Ashley Jackson (ed.), The British Empire and the First World War, London: Routledge, 2016.

Margaret Hutchison. "The Art of Commemoration: Constructing a memory of the First World War in Australia's official war paintings", in Helmut Bley and Anorthe Kremers (eds.), The World during the First World War Perceptions, Experiences and Consequences. Essen, Ruhr: Klartext, 2014, 197-200.

Other

Margaret Hutchison. "War Art (Australia)", in Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson (eds.), 1914-1918-online. Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 2015. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/art_australia 

Margaret Hutchison. "Gallipoli Artists" in David Horner (ed.), Gallipoli 100. Bondi Junction NSW: Faircount Media Asia, 2014, 235-237.

Research Interests

• First World War Studies
• War and culture
• War, memory and heritage

Australian Historical Association, Society of Military History, International Society for First World War Studies.