The Grattan Street Press is a university teaching press at the University of Melbourne. Its Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series has now published two novels, John Lang’s The Forger’s Wife (1853, 1855) and Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud (1865): https://grattanstreetpress.com/titles/ Ken Gelder is general editor of the series, which aims to publish...
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The Grattan Street Press The Grattan Street Press is a university teaching press at the University of Melbourne. Its Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series has now published two novels, John Lang’s The Forger’s Wife (1853, 1855) and Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud (1865): https://grattanstreetpress.com/titles/ Ken Gelder is general editor of the series, which...
Unsettling Australia: International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent...
2018 Sri Lanka ASAL Tour: 12 November - 2 December 2018 Australia has had a close relationship with Sri Lanka since both were established as British colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. Ceylon was the nearest British colony to the Australian colonies, a source...
Call For Papers: Special issue: Tropical Gothic Submission deadline: 30 December 2018 The Gothic is undergoing a pronounced resurgence in academic and popular cultures. Propelled by fears associated with massive social transformations produced by globalization, the neoliberal order, networked technologies, post-truth and environmental uncertainty – tropes of ‘the...
Teaching Australian literature?: Help keep Aust Lit up to date AustLit collects information about the teaching of Australian literature texts at universities and tertiary institutions around Australia and internationally, and links to this information from the work and author records. At a glance, AustLit tells you: how, where,...
Event: Launch of Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays edited by Robert Dixon 6pm for 6.30pm, Thursday 1 November 2018, Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, GlebeYou are invited to the launch of Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays edited by Robert Dixon. The book will be launched by Stephen Romei,...
Call for Papers: The Australasian Modernist Studies Network presents AMSN4: Modernist Comedy & Humour 26-28 October 2018, University of Melbourne Is modernism funny? During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Sigmund Freud theorized jokes and their relation to the unconscious, while Henri Bergson argued...
Call For Papers: Conversations Across the Creek 12 October 2018, National Museum of AustraliaConversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are...
