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

White’s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of one’s private life, and to control one’s public image, that structure the contemporary mode of literary celebrity. His professions…

The popularity and authority of Annamarie Jagose' s Queer Theory (1996) in contemporary literary and cultural studies, as well as among gay and lesbian readers, make it an object of significance for Australian literary studies.

‘I want to propose that the incertitudes of Furphy’s magnum opus provide the observant queer reader with an arousing focus on the late-nineteenth-century making of “sexuality” as a new regulatory system of sexual organisation. In advocating an engagement between Such…