Issues

Review of *Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene* by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
*The Mystery of a Hansom Cab* as Spatial Artefact: Exploring Class and the Spatial Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Australia’s Favourite Whodunnit
Les Murray’s Talking Mosaics
Review of *Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction, edited by Fiona Morrison and Brigid Rooney*
Malley and Campalans: Apocryphal Modernists Yearning for Recognition

19 December 2024

Neo-Victorian Approaches to the Colonial Past in Ruth Park’s *Playing Beatie Bow*
A Versatile Career: Ruth Park’s Novels in the American Marketplace
When the Drums Went Bang: Ruth Park’s ‘Truth in There Somewhere’
Bridging Distances: Ruth Park’s *A Power of Roses* (1953)
Transnational Postwar Catholicism and Social Spirituality in Ruth Park’s *Serpent’s Delight*
Blood and Names: Spectres of Irishness in Ruth Park’s *The Harp in the South* Trilogy
Shame in Ruth Park’s Inner Sydney Novels
Porous Realism and the Precarious Home in Ruth Park’s Fiction
Traps of womanhood: Reproductive coercion in Ruth Park’s *Harp in the South* (1948) and *The Witch’s Thorn* (1951)
‘A dozen rich and luscious phrases’: Speech as characterisation of the working-class women in Ruth Park’s *The Harp in the South*
‘Islands, Islands’: An Archipelagic Reading of Ruth Park’s *Fishing in the Styx* (1993)
‘A Window of Life’: Essays on Ruth Park

3 October 2024

Review of *The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870*, by Anna Johnston
Gerald Murnane’s Class: A Review of *Murnane*, by Emmett Stinson
Anthologies and the Amazonian Phalanx: Publication of Australian Female Poets from the 1940s
Resisting Productionist Timescapes by Making Better Futures in the Present: Care for Country in Western Sydney Literatures
Recentring Water: Thinking with the Chain of Ponds
Inscription and the Settler Colony: Theorising Aboriginal Textuality Today

25 May 2024

‘I Want a Mortgage and Comfort’: Consumption, Totality and Identity in Australian Gay Fiction
Ruth Park’s Charlie Rothe: Reading *Harp in the South* (1948) and *Poor Man’s Orange* (1949)
Picturising Patois in *The Sentimental Bloke*
Textual Encounters of the Bird Kind: Dal Stivens and the Night Parrot
Review of *The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel*, edited by Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee
Review of *Decolonising Animals*, edited by Rick de Vos

19 December 2023

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