Literature - Study & teaching
Articles
- English Studies at the University of New England: A Report from the Field.
In one of the first exchanges between Robyn Penrose and Vic Wilcox in David Lodge's Nice Work, Wilcox argues about the value and meaning…
1 June 2013 - The Age of Appreciation: Reading and Teaching Classic Literature in Australia in the Early Twentieth Century
Discusses the concept of 'appreciation' as it was understood and applied in the reading and teaching of classic literature. 'What becomes increasingly apparent and worrying…
1 May 2006 - The Impact of Literature
There is a burgeoning critical literature of higher education which comments on the cultural changes associated with ‘research quality measurement’. This essay is an introduction…
1 November 2013 - Review of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff
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…
2 November 2018 - 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 - ‘It’s Best to Leave This Constructive Ambiguity in Place!’: The Evaluation of Research in Literary Studies
Despite recognition that the use of journal rankings in research assessment is problematic, they are implicitly or explicitly used by institutions to evaluate individual researchers…
30 October 2023 - Teaching the Value of Literature (and Other Paradoxes)
In this paper, I report on the new capstone course for the English major at Western Sydney University. The course was delivered against the backdrop…
30 October 2023 - Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus and the Question of Value
Considering literature’s value is a difficult task in that it asks one to quantify an aesthetic form that by its very nature thwarts measurement. This…
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 - 'Tipping the Scales': Introduction to Australian Literary Studies Literary Value Special Issue30 October 2023
- Between Impressions and Data: Negotiating Literary Value at the Humanities/Social Sciences Frontier
The fifty years spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century saw literary studies established as an…
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 - 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 - The Values of Critique
This essay examines practices of evaluation in the archive of the important journal Critique, founded by Georges Bataille in 1946. The journal was a…
30 October 2023
Contributors
- Patrick Buckridge
- Christopher Conti
- Christopher Conti
- Robert Clarke
- Louise D'Arcens
- Leigh Dale
- Andrew Dean
- Suzie Gibson
- Joe Hughes
- Jennifer Ann McDonnell
- Dougal McNeill
- Agata Mrva-Montoya
- Simone Murray
- Catriona Menzies-Pike
- Jessica Marian
- Maggie Nolan
- Anthony Uhlmann
- Rebekah Ward