Articles
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By Association: Crafting Mission and Values Statements for the Australian University Heads of English
What are the values that define the profession of university English Studies in Australia, and how do those values align with what we may identify…
30 October 2023
A Decade of Complaints
This paper presents the Sydney Review of Books, which I edited, as a case study in the intersecting conflicts about value in contemporary Australian…
30 October 2023
Evaluating Literary Studies [FOR 4705] in Australia: Bad Data, Bad Peer Review
In 2022 the new Labor government cancelled the ERA (Excellence in Research, Australia) round and instructed the ARC to find new ways of accounting for…
30 October 2023
'Tipping the Scales': Introduction to Australian Literary Studies Literary Value Special Issue
30 October 2023
Simon During, Crisis Talk and the Legacies of the 1980s
What is the place of literary studies in the history of its own decline In this paper, I will explore three issues: (1) the idioms…
30 October 2023