10 Jun Public Seminar by Dr Robert Clarke, University of Tasmania
Event: You are invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Robert Clarke, University of Tasmania, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 4–5:30pm AEST
Where: Online
From Book Clubs to BookToks: Old and new Ways of Engaging with Australian Literature
Please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/BZijv2LxRi6pk6HAuAXvYA
In this public talk, Dr Clarke considers some of the most enduring as well as the most recent ways that readers engage with Australian literature. Against the perception that the study of Australian literature in schools and universities is in decline, the evidence from reader activities in book clubs, in online forums, and in libraries seems to tell a different story. This presentation will consider some of the forces that are at play and that will likely shape the culture of reading around Australian literature in the years to come.
About the presenter:
Dr Robert Clarke is a senior lecturer in the English & Writing Program,
School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He is the author of Travel
Writing From Black Australia (2016), and editor of The Cambridge
Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (2018), and Celebrity Fame,
Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures
Colonialism (2009). His research focuses on travel writing, postcolonial
and Australian literature, and social reading practices.
Proudly supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.