Congratulations to Dr Susan Lever, newly minted OAM for service to Literature. Well deserved recognition for a lifetime of dedication, including untiring work for ASAL and Australian Literature. The Australian Honours list includes David Carter AM, Kevin Brophy AM, James Bradley OAM, Lily Brett OAM, Diane...
Warmest congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for the 2021 Walter McRae Russell Award for the best work of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published 2019-2020:Joseph Cummins, The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music (Anthem, 2019)Tanya Dalziell, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics (Sydney UP, 2020)Susan Lever, Creating Australian...
Bravo, Matteo Dutto, Daniel Hempel and Susanne Julia Thurow, shortlisted for the 2021 Alvie Egan Award, for the best first book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject, published in 2019/2021 by an early career researcher:Matteo Dutto, Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in...
The judges for the 2020 ALS Gold Medal, Brigid Magner, Clare Archer-Lean and Jessica White, read 80 titles from 2020 and were astounded by the fecundity and innovation they demonstrated. While the pandemic has been devastating, these works show that it has also been energising for the writing...
Life Writing: Transnationalism, Translingualism, TransculturalismNovember 20-23, 2021, The University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the University of South Australia and Flinders University.Website: https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/french-narratives/conferenceDeadline for submissions: 1 July 2021 Confirmed Keynote Speakers:Prof. Ricia Chansky, University of Puerto Rico,Prof. Anne Pender, University of AdelaideProf. Liu Jialin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Transnationalism...
JASAL, the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), currently seeks expressions of interest for the role/s of General Editor. JASAL is a key element of ASAL’s stated mission to serve and promote Australian Literary Studies, and the JASAL General Editor position...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIAN LITERARY STUDIES: The AAALS 2021 Conference will be held virtually from April 6-10, 2020 (US). The schedule has not been finalized, but the conference will run for 3-4 hours each day, during the period 6:00-10:30 pm US-EST (8:00a-12:30p Sydney 7-11 April). Check your time zone here:https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html In...
IN AUSTRALIAN AND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Editors: Melanie Duckworth and Annika HerbIn conversation with the emerging field of critical plant studies, this edited collection aims to explore cultural and historical aspects of the representations of plants in Australian and Aotearoa New...
AUSTRALIA’S TRIENNIAL LITERARY STUDIES CONVENTION July 20-24, 2021 (Please submit proposals to [email protected] by April 12, 2021)What is the nature of text – and how do we define where it begins and where it ends? How might such definitions influence the ways in which we...
