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...
ASALvets 2021: Finding the Port The ASALvets plan to meet in Port Macquarie from the 10 - 14 May 2021. Port Macquarie was an early penal settlement with an interesting convict history, and has been important in the lives of many Australian writers. Convict writers James...
The organisers of Texts and Their Limits, Australia’s triennial literary studies convention, are delighted to make the first keynote announcement for our 2021 event. https://sites.google.com/view/textsandtheirlimits/home/keynote-speakers It is with deep gratitude and significant excitement that we welcome confirmed keynote speakers: Behrouz Boochani – writer, journalist, and refugee activist – delivering the Barry...
JULY 20-24, 2021 1st Call for proposals 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 read and accord significance to different kinds...
JULY 20-24, 2021 1st Call for proposals 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 read and accord significance to different kinds...
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature warmly congratulates the recipients of ARC Special Research Initiative funding who are working in the field of Australian literary studies: Associate Professor Emily Potter, Dr Brigid Magner and Dr Torika Bolatagici for “Reading in the Mallee: The Literary...
It is with sadness that ASAL acknowledges the death of Australian poet and playwright Ania Walwicz. Ania Walwicz (1951-2020) was born in born in Swidnica, Poland and migrated to Australia in 1963, where she was a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, and Deakin...
As the Australian Parliament enters a period of reflection on their vote on the current proposal to restructure Higher Education funding, The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) urges our Federal representatives to only support policy that increases equitable access to Higher Education...
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES: ‘WRITING DISABILITY IN AUSTRALIA’, EDITED BY JESSICA WHITE AND AMANDA TINK While Australian literature has begun the work of engaging with writing by and about minoritised groups such as those who identify...
It is with sadness that ASAL acknowledges the passing of Emeritus Professor Gerry Wilkes.G. A. Wilkes (1927-2020) took his BA and MA degrees at the University of Sydney before completing his doctoral work at Oxford. His MA thesis was published as a monograph, Brennan's Poems (1913), in...
