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Australian literature and literary engagements with environment

Summary

Research interests

  • The twentieth and twenty-first century Australian novel
  • The realist novel
  • Place, space, ecology and environment in Australian literaturel
  • Global modernisms
  • Literary engagements with resource extraction and energy

Supervisor

Dr Meg Brayshaw.

Research location

English and Writing, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)

Synopsis

Meg Brayshaw is broadly interested in the intersection of literary cultures and forms with history, politics and environment, she has published on a range of topics including Australian modernism, urban literature, melodrama, and the Anthropocene as narrative form. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Library of Australia and the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. At Sydney University Press, she is academic editor of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3610