Issues

Evaluating Literary Studies [FOR 4705] in Australia: Bad Data, Bad Peer Review
‘It’s Best to Leave This Constructive Ambiguity in Place!’: The Evaluation of Research in Literary Studies
Teaching the Value of Literature (and Other Paradoxes)
Shirley Hazzard’s *The Transit of Venus* and the Question of Value
Simon During, Crisis Talk and the Legacies of the 1980s
'Tipping the Scales': Introduction to Australian Literary Studies Literary Value Special Issue
Between Impressions and Data: Negotiating Literary Value at the Humanities/Social Sciences Frontier
A Decade of Complaints
By Association: Crafting Mission and Values Statements for the Australian University Heads of English
The Values of *Critique*

31 October 2023

‘Listen to the People Who Know’: Nuclear Colonial Memory in the Work of Natalie Harkin and Yhonnie Scarce
Sanctuary and Scars: Salt as a Landscape Element in the Novels and Non-Fiction of Tim Winton
**Review of *Last Letter to a Reader: Essays*, by Gerald Murnane**
Literary sources of Patrick White’s *Voss:* *A House is Built* and *Think of Stephen*
Review of *Lohrey* by Julieanne Lamond
‘Soil Is a Toil Needing All to Recoil’: Lionel Fogarty, Andrew Forrest, and the Settler-Colonial Georgic

2 May 2023

Fantasising the Nation for Child Readers in Early Australian Fairy Tales
Visions of Western Sydney in Howard’s Australia: Luke Carman’s *An Elegant Young Man*, Peter Polites’s *Down the Hume* and Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s *The Lebs*
‘The Kingdom of Dust’: *Voss* as Planetary Epic
Review of *Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives*, edited by Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney.
Review of *Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation* by Blanche Verlie
Aboriginal Women's Life-History Writing, Settler Reading and *Not Just Black and White*

11 December 2022

Review of *The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer*, by Oliné Keese, edited by Jenna Mead
Review of *Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture* by Paul Giles
Words Are Not Enough: Loss, Grief and Incommunicability in Jennifer Down’s Short Stories ‘Aokigahara’ and ‘Pulse Points’
Apocalyptic Climate Fiction in the Third Media Revolution: Briohny Doyle’s *The Island Will Sink*
Review of *Polities and Poetics: Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature* by Adelle Sefton-Rowston
Patrick White’s Studies for *Voss*
Kangaroo Redux: Reading the Conflicts of South Australian Settler Colonialism in W.A. Cawthorne’s *Kuperree*

30 September 2022

Writing Disability in Australia: Transmedial Potentials for Illness/Recovery Narratives
Disability in Three Australian Gothic Novels: *The Well*, *Sing Fox to Me* and *Lilian’s Story*
Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA
Historical Figures, Archives and Australian Disability Life Writing: Reading Jessica White’s *Hearing Maud* and Writing *Hysteria*
‘Doomed shapely ersatz thought’: Francis Webb, *Ward Two* and the Language of Schizophrenia
Caesura and the Deforming Poem: Rupture as a Space for the Other
Losing Sight of Billy: Moving Beyond the Specular in *Haxby’s Circus*
‘Taking a Risk’: Disability, Prejudice and Advocacy in the Editing and Publishing History of Ruth Park’s *Swords and Crowns and Rings*
‘A Message to Humanity on Behalf of the Adult Deaf’: The Protest Writing of John Patrick Bourke
‘Nearly all deep fertile soil’: Les Murray, His Son and Autism
Introduction: Writing Disability in Australia

23 May 2022

**Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas**
**‘It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’: Gendered Violence in Emily Maguire’s Recent Novels**
Helen Garner’s Education
The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of *Last Note for a Lovely*
Review of *Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine* by Paul Sharrad.
‘A Talented Daughter of the Mallee’: Myra Morris Meets Regional Readers

28 October 2021

Irish Protestant Colonialism and Educational Ideology in Australia:** **Hannah Boyd’s *Letters on Education* (1848)
Irish-Australian Literature: Ghosts, Genealogy, Tradition
Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
‘Ourselves Alone’? Encounters Between the Irish Literary Revival and Australian Settler-Modernisms, ca. 1913–1919
Displaced Homelands in Gerald Murnane’s *Inland*
Irish Republicanism and the Colonial Australian Bushranger Narrative
Writing the Irish-Australian Self: Life-Writers and Irish Stereotypes, 1870-2000
Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal Writing
Irishness as a Literary Condition: Australia and its Irish Reading and Writing Community
Introduction: The Uses of Irish-Australian Literature

30 September 2021

Review of *Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics*, by Tanya Dalziell
Review of *Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization*, by Kate Rigby
**Aboriginal Mobilities and Colonial Serial Fiction**
**Wenz Reinvented: The Making and Remaking of a French-Australian Transnational Writer**
Review of *The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt* by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
**‘Like a Novel’: Literary Aesthetics, Nonfiction Ethics, and the *S-Town* podcast**
**The Commercial Function of Historical Book Reviews: An Interrogation of the Angus & Robertson Archives**

30 April 2021

Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s *Carpentaria*
Thea Astley’s *An Item from the Late News*: A Fictional Fifth Gospel
**Connecting Guatemala, Australia and the World: Violence in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s *Senselessness* and Mark McKenna’s _Looking for Blackfellas’ Point_**
Towards a History of Literary Programming on ABC Radio
Review of *Locating Australian Literary Memory*, by Brigid Magner
**Contingencies of Meaning Making: English Teaching and Literary Sociability**
**‘Ordinary Readers’ and Political Uses: Re-Examining Helen Garner’s Non-Fiction Writings about Filicide**
Review of *Australian Literary Criticism since 1901*, by Peng Qinglong
Review of *Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy*, edited by Millicent Weber and Aaron Mannion

29 October 2020

‘This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn’: The Palmer Abridgement of Joseph Furphy’s *Such is Life*.
Culture wars and corporatism: The cultural mission in Australian non-fiction book publishing, 1958–2018
Revaluing Memoir and Rebuilding Mothership in Maggie Nelson’s *The Argonauts*
Review of *Suburban Space, The Novel and Australian Modernity* by Brigid Rooney
Review of *White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation* by Liliana Zavaglia

28 April 2020

On Not Having Sex: Sumner Locke Elliott and Queer History
‘An Explosive Novel of Strange Passions’: Horwitz Publications and Australia’s Pulp Modernism
Site Unscene: Medial Ideology and the Literary Interface
Review of *Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer*, by Sylvia Martin
Review of *Reading Corporeality in Patrick White's Fiction: An Abject Dictatorship of the Flesh*, by Bridget Grogan

19 December 2019