Meg Tasker

Meg Tasker teaches at Federation University Australia in Ballarat, and works in Victorian and Australian Studies. She is General Editor of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (AJVS), published on the Open Journal System by Sydney University e-Publishing, and an is active member of ASAL. Her Struggle and Storm (Melbourne UP, 2001) was the first critical biography of Francis Adams, a significant figure in Australian cultural history. Many papers on ‘Unbecoming Australians’, some in collaboration with Lucy Sussex, exploring the careers of late colonial Australasian writers in London at the turn of the twentieth century, have been published in journals including ALS, Southerly, Portal and JASAL.