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Australian Literary Studies

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Australian Literary Studies is a fully refereed journal of Australian and international literary scholarship and criticism.

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Check out our latest issue, subscribe, or look back through the @ALSJournal archive: australianliterarystudies.com.au


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.com.au/articles/tippi…


For all the Murnaniacs, @BrigidRooney reviews Last Letter to a Reader and find the 'details that wink': bit.ly/43uBj3c


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Announcing the ALS Gold Medal shortlist: congratulations to all! @echo_publishing @text_publishing @MacmillanAus @UQPbooks @PuncherWattmann @MagabalaBooks

ASAustLit's tweet image. Announcing the ALS Gold Medal shortlist: congratulations to all! @echo_publishing @text_publishing @MacmillanAus @UQPbooks @PuncherWattmann @MagabalaBooks

'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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"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

ASAustLit's tweet image. "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

'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


'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


'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 australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/sanct…


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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.com.au/special-issues

calc_anu's tweet image. 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.com.au/special-issues

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.com.au/issues/volume-…


'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


'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


'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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JOB OPPORTUNITY! Full-time, continuing, working at UQ on the AustLit database. Applications close 5 Jan. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareer…


'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


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.com.au


Congratulations to Andy Jackson for his #pmlitaward. We saw his brilliance in an ALS essay earlier this year. australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/caesu…


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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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

suehallpyke's tweet image. 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

Delighted to see @poetry_anna's 'How to Knit a Human' on the Woollahra Digital Innovation shortlist. woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library/whats_… Read the essay here: australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/writi…


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