Dr. Amanda Laugesen

Biography

Amanda Laugesen is the Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University, where she completed her PhD in History in 2000. Laugesen has held various academic positions, including Lecturer in History at the University of Southern Queensland and at Flinders University. Her extensive teaching experience covers Australian and World History. As Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, she has co-edited multiple editions of Australian dictionaries and served as the Managing Editor of the Australian National Dictionary. Laugesen's research interests encompass historical memory, cultural history—particularly in relation to war—and the history of Australian English, lexicography, and publishing. Her notable works include 'Boredom Enemy: Intellectual Imaginative Worlds of Australian Soldiers in the Great War,' 'Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War,' and 'Rooted: The Australian History of Bad Language.' Currently, she supervises research students and is involved in projects related to colloquial language in Australia and the cultural impacts of the Cold War.

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