Australian Literary Studies is a fully refereed journal of Australian and international literary scholarship and criticism.
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29 Apr 2019
Check out our latest issue, subscribe, or look back through the @ALSJournal archive: australianliterarystudies.co…
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2 Nov 2023
Check out the latest ALS – a themed issue on literary value, available outside the paywall for a limited time. Christopher Conti provides an excellent introduction to the concerns of our contributors: australianliterarystudies.co…
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7 Jun 2023
For all the Murnaniacs, @BrigidRooney reviews Last Letter to a Reader and find the 'details that wink':
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Australian Literary Studies retweeted
29 May 2023
Announcing the ALS Gold Medal shortlist: congratulations to all! @echo_publishing @text_publishing @MacmillanAus @UQPbooks @PuncherWattmann @MagabalaBooks
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26 May 2023
'Lamond makes a convincing case for Lohrey as a novelist of ideas, of uncertainties, & a writer of the politics of the contemporary everyday in which her sparse prose "leans away from the reader" making space for them' Margaret Henderson reviews Lohrey bit.ly/3q71FJT
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22 May 2023
"Both emergent and established scholars of Australian literature are renovating the field," says Monique Rooney, chairing our scholarly prizes. Here's the shortlist for the Walter McRae Russell Award: @MUPublishing @SydneyUniPress @MonashPub @umasspress
ALT Starry night sky, with a header: Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russell Award 2023. Five book covers: Beth Driscoll et al, Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First Century Book Culture Julieanne Lamond, Lohrey Roger Osborne, The Life of Such is Life Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre Helen Vines, Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers
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'Fogarty’s poem powerfully indicts the way settler lawmakers such as Forrest and Howard seek to poeticise these disciplinary, eliminatory labour regimes as an act of salvific instruction in a battlerist settler work ethic' writes @neg_vapability bit.ly/41RlD8y
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19 May 2023
'While nuclear colonial histories are largely absent from UK & settler Australian nuclear cultures, in First Nations art and writing on nuclear colonialism, the "remnant-traces" of atomic operations come into view' writes Robert Newton bit.ly/3oaq00G
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'Salt’s corrosive, preservative and healing activity works on body and spirit, as well as supporting and illustrating the internal development of Winton’s characters' writes Kimberley Spragg
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The cfp for @ALSjournal first-ever issue of scholarly essays on Ruth Park, edited by @monique_rooney, has been extended. Submit an abstract by June 1 2023. australianliterarystudies.co…
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4 May 2023
We have a marvellous new issue out today with brilliant work from @neg_vapability, Kimberley Spragg, Robert Newton and Margaret Harris as well as reviews from Margaret Henderson and @BrigidRooney all out from the paywall for a limited time! australianliterarystudies.co…
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'The very materiality of the antipodean environment, the altern characteristics of which are accentuated by the arid conditions of the interior, challenge perceptual parameters.' Samuel Cox on Patrick White's 'Kingdom of Dust' bit.ly/3FvltuD
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18 Dec 2022
'Australian multiculturalism can be seen as an agent that preserves the epistemic privileging of whiteness, rather than displacing it.' @matildagrogan on Western Sydney writers Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Luke Carman and Peter Polites. bit.ly/3HA8Q3R
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15 Dec 2022
'A significant number of early Australian fairy tales used the bush as a blank slate for the importation of fairies, elves and witches.' Michelle J Smith bit.ly/3VVPACi
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Australian Literary Studies retweeted
14 Dec 2022
JOB OPPORTUNITY!
Full-time, continuing, working at UQ on the AustLit database. Applications close 5 Jan.
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15 Dec 2022
'Aboriginal scholars Whittaker and Leane ... exhort settler readers to approach First Nations texts cautiously, aware that reading practices & responses – no matter how well-intentioned – can perpetuate colonial power.' Cheryl O'Byrne bit.ly/3FU1WFB
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13 Dec 2022
Sneaking in before the end of the year is our latest issue of ALS. Featuring excellent new work from Cheryl O'Byrne, Michelle J Smith, @matildagrogan and Sam Cox. All outside the paywall for a limited time only! australianliterarystudies.co…
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13 Dec 2022
Congratulations to Andy Jackson for his #pmlitaward. We saw his brilliance in an ALS essay earlier this year. australianliterarystudies.co…
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28 Nov 2022
We're busy finalising our last issue of the year, so in the meantime, have a read of our last issue before it ducks behind the paywall, with work from @katerininibb, @gretchenshirm, Jonah Shallit, Elizabeth Webby and Margaret Harris. bit.ly/3UeCqP6
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17 Nov 2022
Compelling poetic lecture from well-grounded Jeanine Leane, threading #Wiradjuri purple lands with ‘Native Grasses’ to show the #colonialist erasure in ideas of ‘restoration’. The white work needed is to ‘mend’ and to ‘make amends’. Thanks @ladyredjess @CopyrightAgency
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3 Nov 2022
Delighted to see @poetry_anna's 'How to Knit a Human' on the Woollahra Digital Innovation shortlist. woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library…
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