Books
Smith, Michelle J. Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Book chapters
Smith, Michelle J., “Wild Australian Girls? The Mythology of Colonial Femininity in British Print Culture, 1880-1926”, Girls, Texts, Cultures, Eds. Mavis Reimer and Clare Bradford, Waterloo, Ont., Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Forthcoming 2012.
Smith, Michelle J., "The Postmodern Vampire in 'Post-Race' America: HBO's True Blood", Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, Eds. Bill Hughes and Sam George. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Forthcoming 2012.
Smith, Michelle J., “On the Origin of Men: Boyhood, Darwinism and Tarzan of the Apes”, Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon, Eds. Michelle Ann Abate and Annette Wannamaker, London and New York, Routledge. Forthcoming 2012.
Smith, Michelle J. “'But What is His Country?' Producing Australian Identity in the Victorian School Paper, 1896-1918”, Narratives and Repetition, Ed. Mavis Reimer, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming 2013.
Smith, Michelle J. "The 'Australian Girl' and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Women's Fiction", Imagining Victorian Settler Homes: Antipodal Domestic Fiction. Ed. Tamara S. Wagner. Forthcoming 2013.
Smith, Michelle J., “Nineteenth-Century Female Crusoes: Rewriting the Robinsonade for Girls”, Relocating Victorian Settler Narratives: Emigrants, Exiles, Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Ed. Tamara Wagner, London, Pickering and Chatto, 2011, pp. 165-176.
Hoorn, Jeanette and Michelle Smith, “Rudall Hayward’s Democratic Cinema and the Civilising Mission in ‘the Land of the Wrong White Crowd’”, New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past, Eds Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner, Intellect/Chicago University Press, 2011, pp. 65-82.
Smith, Michelle, “‘Girls, Girls, Everywhere!’ Angela Brazil’s Edwardian School Stories”, Worlds Enough and Time: Childhood in Edwardian Fiction, Eds. Adrienne Gavin and Andrew Humphries, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 143–158.
Journal articles
Smith, Michelle J. and Elizabeth Parsons. “Animating Child Activism: Environmentalism and Class Politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992)”, Continuum 26.1 (2012), pp. 25-37.
Moruzi, Kristine and Michelle Smith, “‘Learning What Real Work…Means’: Ambiguous Attitudes Towards Employment in the Girl’s Own Paper”, Victorian Periodicals Review 43.4 (2010), pp. 429-445.
Smith, Michelle, “E. Nesbit’s Psammead Trilogy: Reconfiguring Time, Nation and Gender”, ELT: English Literature in Transition 52.3 (2009), pp. 298-311.
Smith, Michelle, “Adventurous Girls of the Empire: The Pre-War Novels of Bessie Marchant”, The Lion and the Unicorn 33.1 (2009), pp. 1-25.
Smith, Michelle, “Be(ing) Prepared: Girl Guides, Colonial Life, and National Strength”, Limina 12 (2006), pp. 52–62. [Full-text]
Newspaper and online articles
Smith, Michelle. "Lego Makes Sure that Boys Will be Boys and Girls Will be Girls." The Age (Melbourne), 27 December 2011, p. 13.
Smith, Michelle. "Women in Australia's Military: On the Front Line of the Gender War." The Conversation, 11 November 2011.
Smith, Michelle. “Child Beauty Pageants are Hideously Ugly.” The Age (Melbourne), 19 May 2011, p. 15.
Smith, Michelle. “The Royal Wedding and the Lure of the Princess Myth.” The Conversation, 28 April 2011.
Smith, Michelle, “The St Kilda Schoolgirl and Our Troubled Relationship with Tricky Women”, The Conversation, 23 March 2011.
Smith, Michelle, “Criticism of ‘Dangerous’ School Text Ignores Literature’s Role in Learning”, The Age (Melbourne), 18 February 2011, p.13. (Republished at On Line Opinion.)
Smith, Michelle, “The Apostrophe Joins the Endangered List”, On Line Opinion, 20 December 2010.
Smith, Michelle, “Guiding Light for a New Generation”, The Age (Melbourne), 8 October 2010, p.17.
Smith, Michelle, “Tim Burton’s Version of Alice Says a Lot About How We Think of Girls”, The Age (Melbourne), 11 March 2010, p. 23. (Print only)
