Production Team
CLARE WRIGHT / CO-HOST
Professor Clare Wright (she/her) is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster who has worked in academia, politics and the media. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. A first generation migrant to Australia, Clare’s expertise is in Australian history, with a spotlight on the history of women’s political activism, the gold rush and mining, Australian national identity, historical consciousness, democracy and gender politics. Clare’s widely read and praised books include the Stella Prize-winning The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka which is being adapted for a television drama series. Her latest, You Daughters of Freedom is the second instalment of Clare’s Democracy Trilogy. Clare’s thought-provoking essays, reviews and opinion writing have appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Conversation, and Meanjin as well as leading national and international scholarly journals. She has appeared in the Australian, UK and US versions of the popular television genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? and hosts the ABC Radio National history podcast, Shooting the Past. Clare’s first love is history communication. And archives.
YVES REES / CO-HOST
Dr Yves Rees (they/them) is a writer, historian and podcaster based in Naarm/Melbourne, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Yves is a Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, the co-host of Archive Fever history podcast, and author of the memoir All About Yves: Notes from a Transition (Allen & Unwin, 2021). They are also co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2022) and Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History (Palgrave, 2017). Their next book Travelling to Tomorrow will be published by NewSouth in 2024. Rees was awarded the 2020 ABR Calibre Essay Prize, a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and the 2018 Serle Award. Rees has judged the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Calibre Essay Prize and the Stella Prize. Their essays and criticism have been published in the Guardian, The Age, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Griffith Review and Overland, among other publications.
MATT SMITH / PRODUCER / EDITOR
Matt Smith makes podcasts and occasionally writes. He is known for producing the podcast series Emperors of Rome, When in Rome, Asia Rising and now Archive Fever. He’s an occasional contributor to ABC Radio National, and has been stopped by airport security with suspicious looking microphones seven times.
JACQUES DERRIDA / PATRON SAINT OF ARCHIVE FEVER
French philosopher Jacque Derrida published his prolific work Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression in 1995. Looking for some Derrida content? Here he is defining deconstruction, and here he is discussing the fear of writing. Need an even bigger Derrida hit? Here’s an hour-and-a-half long Derrida documentary. Go wild!