User:Carlofantom

Carlofantom is the Wikipedia username of the freelance journalist and non-fiction author Roger Bourke.

The username itself is derived from a passage in the Brief Lives of the 17th-century English writer John Aubrey: "Captain Carlo Fantom, a Croatian, spake 14 languages; was a Captain under the Earle of Essex. He was very quarrelsome and a great Ravisher. He left the Parliament Party and went to the King Ch. the First at Oxford, where he was hanged for Ravishing. Sd. he, I care not for your Cause: I come to fight for your half-crowne and your handsome women … Sir Robert Pye was his Colonel, who shot at him for not returning a horse that he took away before the Regiment." "Carlo Fantom" ("Charles Ghost") was almost certainly not the real name of this East European mercenary but a nom de guerre: thus it was an early example of a username.

I published my first book, Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience, with the University of Queensland Press in 2006. I hold an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Western Australia. I live in Australia. I became a registered English Wikipedia user in May 2013 and a registered French Wikipédia utilisateur in September 2013.

WikiProject Albums

 * Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (2012)
 * Real Emotional Girl (2001)
 * Mellow Miles (1985)
 * Broken Hearts & Madmen (2011)
 * The Soul of a Man (2003)

WikiProjects Albums/Classical music

 * A Feather on the Breath of God (1985)

WikiProjects Albums/Classical music/Germany

 * Canticles of Ecstasy (1993)

WikiProjects Australia/Festivals

 * Melbourne Cabaret Festival

WikiProject Biography

 * James Paris du Plessis (c. 1666–c. 1735)
 * William Harris (historian) (1720–1770)
 * William Butler (physician) (1535–1617)

WikiProjects Biography/France

 * Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet (1686–1764)
 * Claude-Rémy Buirette de Verrières (1749–1793)

WikiProjects Biography/Musicians/Jazz

 * Cindy Bradley (1977–)

WikiProjects Biography/Scotland

 * Elizabeth Burnett (1766–1790)

WikiProjects Biography/Women's history

 * Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (1602–1645)

WikiProjects Books/Military history

 * Quartered Safe Out Here (George MacDonald Fraser)
 * Naples '44 (Norman Lewis)
 * To War with Whitaker (Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly)
 * Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas)

WikiProject Songs

 * The Gypsy's Wife (Leonard Cohen)