ASAL joins with colleagues at UWA and across the diverse fields of Australian writing and Australian literary studies to protest in the strongest terms the action currently proposed by the University of Western Australia to close UWAP. This press is an essential and long-standing part of the dynamic field...
5pm -7pm, Wednesday 13 November, Library & Archives, Parliament House, Darwin This year's Patrons Lecture will be delivered by Marie Munkara in conjunction with the launch of Borderlands Magazine - the first literary magazine in the Northern Territory for 20 years. Marie Munkara is an award winning Aboriginal author from the...
Antonella Riem, Susan Ballyn, Maria Renata Dolce, David Carter, Simon Farley, Martin Leer and others have decided to honour the life and work of the late Laurie Hergenhan with a volume of studies, pieces, memoirs and stories. The provisional title of this volume is I’m Listening like...
The ASAL ECR Profile series highlights the work of our early career researchers. For this instalment we present the work of Megan Mooney Taylor. Since completing my PhD at Deakin University on ‘Mythmaking and Masculinity in the Fiction of Norman Lindsay’ in 2017 my research has...
ASAL statement about the non-appointment of the University of Sydney Chair of Australian Literature As the largest and one of the oldest literary associations in Australia, and the peak body representing Australian literary studies, the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) joins with its affiliated Associations in...
5-6 December 2019, the University of Sydney final program and registration: https://slam-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/from-colony-to-transnation/ This conference marks the retirement of Robert Dixon as Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. Over a long and productive career Robert has worked in institutions right across the...
Call for Papers and Panels The 2020 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by James Cook University at the Cairns Institute, Smithfield, from 29 June – 2 July. For more than forty years, ASAL annual conferences have offered a venue where creative writers and academic critics have...
…The Alps loom On the mind’s horizon, honed edge of snow Between blue foothills and pool-blue sky. From ‘Snow Holiday with Aunt’ by Jamie Grant. 14 - 18 October. Many Australian poets have been inspired by the beauty of the Snowy Mountains and surrounding regions—from Banjo Paterson’s heroic...
News of the death of Emeritus Professor Laurie Hergenhan AO will be greeted with sadness by the community of scholars of Australian Literature throughout Australia and overseas. A graduate of Sydney University and London, where he completed a PhD on George Meredith, Laurie taught...
An International Journal of English Studies: University of Warsaw: Enemy Aliens or Captive Allies This special issue of Anglica will be interdisciplinary in nature and devoted to representations of internment in areas including, but not limited to, literature, history, art, music, and film. Submitted papers will examine the...
