Australian literature - Study & teaching

Discusses contemporary attempts to change the 'fixed and known directions' of Australian literature by investigating the 'faultlines' (per Susan Sheridan), 'those different intersections of concurrence…

The publication of two essays on 'the state of the discipline' (to borrow a title from the ADE Bulletin) is not a response to…

Discusses the establishment and teaching of a course in Australian literature, the first of its kind, at the University of Tasmania between 1947 and 1950.

Editor’s note: These three articles “are meant to stimulate further debate on the current state and future direction of studies in Australian literature.”

Except for passing comment little has been written about the urgent need for reliable editions of Australian literary texts and about the problems this involves…

'It is a grave mistake—politically, morally, tactically, strategically pedagogically—in any way to defend poetry by promoting its remoteness or its professional status, such as that…

The concept of Australian literary studies is becoming increasingly the object of critical debate as exemplified, for instance, by the forum in the previous issue…

Busy trying to understand how literary narratives might be read, and how to teach the reading of literature, academics have spent little time writing about…

About a decade ago, Howard Felperin and a few others were pointing out quite correctly that Australian literary scholars had generally ignored modern critical theory…

Using Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career as its focus, this paper explores the institutional possibilities and constraints of ‘worlding’ settler texts in secondary school and…

Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools Since 1945. Edited by Tim Dolin, Jo Jones and Patricia Dowsett. Monash University Publishing, 2017.

This collection is, at its best, like a conversation with colleagues over a shared meal after a stimulating conference, something all-too-often dreamed about and longed…