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Literary Studies Convention @ Wollongong
brought to you by AAL, ASAL and AULLA
with the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts,
English and Writing Program of the University of Wollongong
Program Overview
Tuesday 7 July
Workshops
Lunch
Session 1
Session 2
Reception
Welcome to Country
Presentation of Prizes
Keynote: Tony Birch
Time
11.00 – 12.30
12.30 – 1.30
1.30 – 3.00
3.10 – 4.10
4.00 – 5.00
5.00
5.15
5.30
Venue
Building 19
Building 24 Room G01
Buildings 20 and 24
Buildings 19 and 20
Building 24 Room G01 and foyer
Hope Lecture Theatre (40.153)
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Wednesday 8 July
Session 3
Morning Tea
Keynote: Carolyn Dinshaw
Lunch + AUHE Meeting
Session 4
Session 5
Afternoon Tea
Association AGMs
9.00 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 – 12.10
12.10 – 1.00
1.00 – 2.00
2.10 – 3.10
3.10 – 3.30
3.30 – 5.00
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Building 24 Room G01
Building 20 Theatre 1
Building 24 Room G01/AUHE 20.5
Buildings 19 and 20
Buildings 19 and 20
Building 24 Room G01
Building 20 various theatres
Thursday 9 July
Session 6
9.00 – 10.30
Morning Tea
10.30 – 11.00
Keynote: Rita Felski
11.00 – 12.10
Lunch
12.10 – 1.00
Session 7
1.00 – 2.00
Session 8
2.10 – 3.10
Afternoon Tea
3.10 – 3.30
Panel: Publishing/Book Industry 3.30 – 5.00
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Building 20 Room G01
Building 20 Theatre 1
Building 24 Room G01
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Building 24 Room G01
Building 20 Theatre 1
Friday 10 July
Session 9
Morning Tea
Keynote: Susan K. Martin
Lunch
Session 10
Session 11
Afternoon Tea
Forum: Literary Studies
Convention Dinner
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Building 24 Room G01
Building 20 Theatre 1
Building 24 Room G01
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Buildings 19, 20 and 24
Building 24 Room G01
Building 20 Theatre 1
Harbourfront Restaurant
9.00 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 – 12.10
12.10 – 1.00
1.00 – 2.00
2.10 – 3.10
3.10 – 3.30
3.30 – 5.00
7 pm til … (not very) late?
Saturday 11 July [Building 24 is not used on this day]
Session 12
9.30 – 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 – 11.30
Session 13
11.30 – 12.30
Lunch
12.30 – 1.30
Buildings 19 and 20
Building 20 Foyer
Building 20
Building 20 Foyer
For full program, please read on … for abstracts, go to
http://lha.uow.edu.au/lit-net2015/index.html
As at 2 July 2015
Tuesday 7 July
11.00 – 12.30 Workshops (Building 19)
Career development (1): The job application and interview (Building 19 Room 1001)
Career development (2): Getting tenure: planning research and teaching (Building 19 Room 1002)
Career development (3): From mid-career to management (Building 19 Room 1003)
Career development (4): Beyond the academy (Building 19 Room 1004)
How to get the most out of conferences and candidature (Building 19 Room 2100)
Getting published: what do readers, editors, and publishers look for? (Building 19 Room 2003)
Teaching literature – issues in lectures and tutorials (Building 19 Room 1093)
ASAL Executive Meeting (Building 20 Theatre 5)
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)
Session 1: 1.30 – 3.00
1A Building 24 Room 203: Indigenous Story
Jacqui Katona, Sandra Phillips, and Alison Ravenscroft. This panel will outline the potential reach
of a project from the Centre for Indigenous Story (La Trobe University) for
networking between Indigenous people, and between Indigenous and nonIndigenous Australians.
Chair: Bernadette Brennan
1B Building 20 Theatre 2: Between Poem and Painting: Collaboration, Crushes, and Court
Favourites in the New York School
Ann Vickery, ‘Playing Favourites: Considering the Minor Intimacy of Jane Freilicher and the New York
School’
Ella O’Keefe, ‘Writing in Painting: Barbara Guest’s Visual Collaborations’
Duncan Hose, ‘“You in Me, That is What the Soul Is”: How Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers Made the
Cult of “Us”’
Chair: Jill Jones
1C Building 20 Theatre 3: India – Australia
Deirdre Coleman and Sashi Nair, ‘India and Australia in the Nineteenth Century’
Roanna Gonsalves, ‘The Survival of the Friendliest: Learning to be a Writer in Contemporary India’
Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan, ‘Looking back at India: Humour in “Sticks and Stones and Such
Like” and “Homework”’
Chair: Paul Sharrad
1D Building 20 Theatre 4: Networks of Mobility: Place, Space and Value
Sarah Galletly, ‘Mobilising the Pacific Imaginary: Periodical Fiction and Australian Travel Networks in
the Interwar Period’
Robyn Greaves, ‘Women, Space and Representation in Twentieth-Century Australia’
Victoria Kuttainen, ‘Picture This: Australian Magazines, Contemporaneity, Visuals and Value 1920s–
30s’
Chair: Christina Spittel
1E Building 20 Theatre 5: Gender, Violence and Humanitarianism
Sue Kossew and Anne Brewster, ‘Australian Women’s Literature’s Articulation with Discursive
Networks of Sexual Violence’
Anne Maxwell, ‘The Humanitarian Politics of Eleanor Dark’s Slow Dawning’
Shamara Ransirini Pitiyage, ‘Radical Subjectivities: Marion May Campbell’s Konkretion’
Chair: Lyn McCredden
As at 2 July 2015
Tuesday 7 July
Session 2: 3.10 – 4.10
2A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (1)
Christopher Oakey, ‘The Literary Network as Cultural Project: Ron Silliman and Language Poetry’
Rose Lucas, ‘The Shimmering Image: Poetry and Paying Attention’
Chair: Ella O’Keefe
2B Building 20 Theatre 3: Reception (1)
Tom Clark, ‘Reference, Texture, and Poetics in Tony Abbott’s Medieval Dreaming’
Sasha Henriss-Anderssen, ‘Gazing at Fallen Leaves: Feminine Subjectivity in Fruits Basket
Chair: Heather Neilson
2C Building 20 Theatre 4: Conjuring Bodies
Francesca Rendle-Short, ‘Non/fictive Bodies: Fleshing out Absence/Drawing Presence’
Merlinda Bobis, ‘Aesth-ethics’ and Disappeared Bodies: Between absence and presence’
Chair: Emily Yu Zong
2D Building 20 Theatre 5: Normativity and the Posthuman
Elizabeth Stephens, ‘Networks of Normality: Rethinking (Anti-)Normativity in Contemporary Critical
Theory’
Monique Rooney, ‘It’s Impossible’
Chair: Emily Potter
2E Building 19 Room 1002: Gallipoli/ANZAC
Christina Spittel, ‘Paper Gallipolis: Imagining the Peninsula in Australian Novels, 1916-2014’
Troy Potter, ‘Mateship, Binary Narratives and the ANZAC Tradition’
Chair: Ian Campbell
2F Building 19 Room 1003: Indigeneity and Representation
Fiona Polack, ‘Tony Birch’s Blood, and Oil’
Chunli Xing, ‘The Aboriginal-White Relationship in The Secret River and Carpentaria’
Chair: Michael Griffiths
4.00 – 5.00 Reception (Building 24 Foyer)
5.00 – Welcome to Country, Dr Barbara Nicholson
(Hope Lecture Theatre, aka Building 40 Room 153)
5.15 – Presentation of Prizes, including ALS Gold Medal (Hope Theatre)
5.40 – 6.40 Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture: Tony Birch
‘The Sky lay flat upon the earth and covered it like a blanket’: Climate Change,
Indigenous Knowledge and the Privilege of Apocalyptic Fantasies
Chair: Brigitta Olubas
As at 2 July 2015
Wednesday 8 July Session 3: 9.00 – 10.30
3A Building 24 Room 203: Spatiality (1)
Elizabeth McMahon, ‘The Regional Archipelago: Re-membering Literary Networks’
Meg Brayshaw, ‘“No light, no land or sea”: A Geocritical Reading of Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the
City
Jasmin Kelaita, ‘Literary Reading in the Extra-literary World’
Chair: Brigitta Olubas
3B Building 20 Theatre 2: Reception (2)
Alison Bell, ‘Getting “Carried” away: What Do Popular Characters Tell Us about Their Audiences?’
Heather Neilson, ‘The Networks of The Lone Ranger’
Paul Sharrad, ‘Networking Asmara: Tom Keneally and Eritrea’
Chair: Simone Murray
3C Building 20 Theatre 3: Creative Writing
Camilla Palmer, ‘HOLOGRAMS’
Tanya Thaweeskulchai, ‘Image and Landscape: Intertwining the Two Collections of Prose Poems, The
Laughter and the Crow and Ashes and Fire in the House of Portraits’
James Bedford, ‘Into the Wakes of Leviathan’
Chair: Ann Vickery
3D Building 20 Theatre 4: Environment
Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, ‘Lively Ethography: Storying Animal Worlds’
Kate Wright, ‘How to Tell Stories in Nonhuman Voices’
Laura Jean McKay, ‘The Disappearing Animal: Representations of Nonhuman Animals in
Contemporary Fiction’
Chair: Jennifer Hamilton
3E Building 20 Theatre 5: Emotion
Megan Nash, ‘Authorising Emotion: Feeling and Writing in the Novels of Elizabeth Harrower and
Elizabeth Bowen’
Sue Parker, ‘Sentimentality, Emotion and Gender in Furphy’s Such is Life’
Jessica Taylor, ‘“Rights, Not Privileges. It’s That Easy, It Really Bloody Is!”: Working-Class Women’s
Anger in Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham’
Chair: Susan K. Martin
3F Building 19 Room 1001: Transformations of the Book
Jocelyn Hargrave, ‘Transtextual Editorial Margins within George Howe’s NSW Pocket Almanack’
Katie Hansord, ‘Poetry, Spiritualism, and Periodical Print Culture: Literary Networks and Emily
Manning’s The Balance of Pain’
Anna Poletti, ‘How the Book has Shaped Thinking about Autobiography’
Chair: Paul Eggert
3H Building 19 Room 1002: Imagination and Crisis
Anne Collett, ‘Poetic Response to Caribbean Hurricane and Marronage Imaginary’
Chrystopher Spicer, ‘The Cyclone Which is at the Heart of Things: The Cyclone as Trope of Place and
Apocalypse in Queensland Literature’
Gareth Griffiths, ‘Human Rights and the Literary Imaginary’
Chair: Alice te Punga Somerville
3G Building 19 Room 1003: Temporalities
Steven Hampton, ‘A Network of Nightmares: Fuseli, Marx and Raising the Dead’
Alison Cardinale, ‘Reading Coleridge and Romanticism after Heisenberg’
Evan Milner, ‘Danubian Travel Writing and Competing Ideas of Tradition’
Chair: Will Christie
As at 2 July 2015
Wednesday 8 July
10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01)
11.00 – 12.10 Keynote: Carolyn Dinshaw
Green is the New Black:
Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making
Chair: Louise D’Arcens (Building 20 Theatre 1)
12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)
AUHE MEETING 12.30 – 1.00 Building 20 Theatre 5
Session 4: 1.00 – 2.00
4A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (2)
George Mouratidis, ‘“Variations on a Generation”: Re-crossing the Mutable “Textual Field” of “Beat”’
Sarah-Jane Burton, ‘The Boston Trio: Reassessing Robert Lowell’s Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton’s
Interconnectedness’
Chair: Anne Collett
4B Building 20 Theatre 3: Reading
Ika Willis, ‘Text, Context, Intertext, Hypertext: The Networked Object of Literary Study’
Lydia Wevers, ‘Bad Taste’
Chair: Julieanne Lamond
4C Building 20 Theatre 4: Nineteenth-Century Australia
Sarah Comyn, ‘Pedagogy in the Colonies’
Deborah Pike, ‘Sovereignty and Transnational Subjectivity in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony’
Chair: Megan Brown
4D Building 20 Theatre 5: Invisible Threads: Pacific Links with Australia
Alice te Punga Somerville, ‘Ahitereiria: Midcentury Maori eyes on Australia in Te Ao Hou (1952-75)’
Karin Speedy, ‘Networks of Silence from Australia through the Pacific and across the Indian Ocean:
Unravelling the Threads of Early Blackbirding Narratives’
Chair: Shayne Kearney
4E Building 19 Room 1001: Teaching (1): Networking for Reading Resilience
Tully Barnett and Anna Poletti, ‘Networking for Reading Resilience’ – Panel discussion
Chair: Jude Seaboyer
4F Building 19 Room 1002: Spatiality (2)
James McGregor, ‘Fiction for Geography: A Reading of Postwar Melbourne Novels through the Prism
of “Literary Geography”’
Ari Mattes, ‘Antipodean Dream, Antipodean Nightmare: Spatial Ideologies in Australian Literature
and Cinema’
Chair: Toby Davidson
4G Building 19 Room 1003: Theorising Indigenous Writing
Brenda Machosky, ‘Resisting Aesthetics: New Ways of Theorizing Contemporary Indigenous
Literature’
Benjamin Miller, ‘The Transnational Turn in Indigenous Literary Studies’
Chair: Sumedha Iyer
4H Building 19 Room 1004: Orientalism
Dvir Abramovich, ‘Israelis and Arabs in Amos Oz’s Early Fiction: An Ambivalent Relationship, but also
the Garden of Eden’
Huang Zhong and Wenche Ommundsen, ‘Opium Smokers and Polygamists Beware: The First Chinese
Australian Novel as Cautionary Tale’
Chair: Antonina Harbus
As at 2 July 2015
Wednesday 8 July
Session 5: 2.10 – 3.10
5A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (3)
Lindsay Tuggle, ‘“Phantoms of Countless Lost”: The Nostalgia of Absent Limbs in Walt Whitman’s War
Poetry’
Ling Hoi Ching (Belle), ‘The Poetics of Food in Contemporary Poetry’
Chair: Natalie Seger
5B Building 20 Theatre 3: Alexis Wright
Sumedha Iyer, ‘Forming a Philosophy of Place: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book
Adelle Sefton-Rowston, ‘Notworking: Reconciliation and Literary Networks in Alexis Wright’s The
Swan Book’
Chair: Anne Brewster
5C Building 20 Theatre 4: Emotion and Narration
Antonina Harbus, ‘Emotion and Narration in Austen’s Text Worlds’
Pip Newling, ‘Ceding Power on the Page: Memoir as a Recuperative Act’
Chair: Guy Davidson
5D Building 20 Theatre 5: Literature and Science
Anna Wallace, ‘Interactions of Science and Literature in Anglo-Saxon Poetry’
Alan Salter, ‘The Clinical Anecdote as Sceptical Form’
Chair: Judy Stove
5E Building 19 Room 1001: Teaching (2)
Judith Seaboyer, ‘Feedback-rich Online Quizzes for Better Student Reading’
Jill Ireland, ‘Teachers Resisting Resistant Readings’
Chair: Tully Barnett
5F Building 19 Room 1002: Spatiality (3)
Kieran Dolin, ‘Writing in the Domains of the Law’
Toby Davidson, Pixelated Networks of Bronze and Stone: Digitally Mapping Commemorative Sites of
Oz Lit in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra
Chair: Tony Hughes D’Aeth
5G Building 19 Room 1003: South American Networks
William J. Cheng, ‘The Torn Reality of Peruvian Society in Gutiérrez’s The Violence of Time’
Ian Campbell, ‘Australian Post-Nerudaism?’
Chair: Mario Daniel Martín
3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Building 24 Room G01)
3.30 – 5.00
AULLA AGM
Building 20 Theatre 2
AAL AGM
Building 20 Theatre 3
ASAL AGM
Building 20 Theatre 4
As at 2 July 2015
Thursday 9 July
Session 6: 9.00 – 10.30
6A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (4)
Jill Jones, ‘Reformance: The Shifty Poem’
Robert Wood, ‘Relational Networks: Towards a Sociological Reading of Poetry Performance’
Bridget Vincent, ‘Speaking in Public: Civic Poets and the Civic Humanities’
Chair: Lachlan Brown
6B Building 20 Theatre 3: Iran
Sanaz Fotouhi, ‘A Glimpse at Diasporic Iranian Literature in English in Australia’
Farzaneh Mayabadi, ‘Iranians as Others in Australian Literature’
Laetitia Nanquette, ‘Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Iranian Literary Field’
Chair: Keyvan Allahyari
6C Building 20 Theatre 4: Derrida
Stephen Abblitt, ‘Bad Reading: Failure in Derrida’s Reading of Joyce’
Jessica Marian, Philosophy contre Literature: Derrida’s Glas-style
Gaby Dixon-Ritchie, ‘Literature and Materiality’
Chair: Karina Quinn
6D Building 20 Theatre 5: Networking Romanticism
Peter Otto, ‘Disciplinary Power, Bio Power, and Egalitarian Networks in William Blake and JeanJacques Rousseau’
Clara Tuite, ‘Love à la Werther: The Farce Network’
Russell Smith, ‘“They’re only letters”: Textuality and Vitality from Frankenstein to Her’
Chair: Peter Goodall
6E Building 24 Room 203: Past and Present
Elizabeth Minchin, ‘Story, Landscape, Memory: The Enduring Power of the Notion of Troy’
Louise D’Arcens, ‘Art, Heritage Industries, and the Question of Nostalgia in Michel Houllebecq’s La
Carte et le Territoire’
Rodney Swan, ‘The manuscrit moderne: Realising Tériade’s vision’
Chair: Ika Willis
6F Building 19 Room 1001: Women’s Writing
Karen Lamb, ‘Writing the Biography of Thea Astley’
Georgina Arnott, ‘“A Very Model Student”: Judith Wright’s Undergraduate Journalism’
Alison Moore and Hanh Nguyen, ‘Examining Australian Literature with Australian Linguistic Models’
Chair: Paul Genoni
6G Building 19 Room 1002: Rethinking Literature and Place: Texts, Representation, Materiality
Jennifer Hamilton, ‘Sydney: Literature, Place and Geology’
Brigid Magner, ‘From Day Dawn to the Secret Cave: Nan Chauncy’s Literary Landscape’
Emily Potter and Kirsten Seale, ‘Place and the literature-assemblage: Helen Garner, Monkey Grip,
Melbourne’s Inner North’
Chair: Elizabeth McMahon
6H Building 19 Room 1003: Networking Indigeneity (1)
Kelly Frame, ‘“The Land was a Crumpled Patchwork”: Representations of Australia in the Novels of
David Mitchell
Emily Finlay, ‘Literary Networks in Kim Scott’s Benang’
Geoff Davis, ‘Chotro, or Reducing Our Ignorance about Indigenous Communities’
Chair: Brenda Machosky
As at 2 July 2015
Thursday 9 July
10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01)
11.00 – 12.10 Keynote: Rita Felski
Attachment Theory
Chair: Meaghan Morris (Building 20 Theatre 1)
12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)
Session 7: 1.00 – 2.00
7A Building 24 Room 203: Reviewing
Julieanne Lamond and Melinda Harvey, ‘Where Two Points Meet: Book Reviews and the Australian
Literary Field’
Jessica White, ‘Reading, Reviewing and the Australian Women Writers Challenge’
Chair: Karen Lamb
7B Building 20 Theatre 2: Nineteenth-Century Networks
Jennifer McDonell, ‘Location, Location, Location: London’s Smithfield Markets and the Politics of
Sight/Site’
Judy Stove, ‘Zealous Patriots and Friends of Liberty: Chandos Leigh’s Cultural Histories’
Chair: Peter Otto
7C Building 20 Theatre 3: Secrets
Nicole Moore, ‘“A recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes”: Redacted affect and the
international reach of ASIO’s cultural Cold War’
Michael Richardson, ‘Literary Hacks: Secrets, Networks and Abstractions in Thomas Pynchon and
Haruki Murukami
Chair: Jasna Novaković
7D Building 20 Theatre 4: Law
Sarah Ailwood and Maree Sainsbury, ‘Fraudsters, Corrupt or Just Plain Muppets? (Mis)uses of Early
Australian Copyright Law’
Diana Louis Shahinyan, ‘Reading the Nation: Tracing the Networks of Law and Literature’
Chair: Kieran Dolin
7E Building 20 Theatre 5: Contesting Identity
Christian Griffiths, ‘Tracing the Literary Aspects of Social Networks and Identity in Wentworth’
Jonathan Dunk, ‘‘I am all that I see’: Vision, Wounds, and Atonement in Patrick White and J.M.
Coetzee’
Chair: Sue Kossew
7F Building 19 Room 1001: Tsiolkas
Danny Anwar, ‘A Virus from Utopia in Christos Tsiolkas’ Dead Europe
Jessica Gildersleeve, ‘Christos Tsiolkas and the Modernist Net’
Chair: Andrew McCann
7G Building 19 Room 1002: Disciplinary History (1)
Peter Goodall, ‘The Learned Society and its Journal: Is This Still a Viable Literary Network in
Australia?’
Will Christie, ‘Literary Lectures in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Notes towards the Evolution of the
Discipline’
Chair: Geoff Davis
7H Building 19 Room 1003: Networking Indigeneity (2)
Mridula Chakraborty, ‘To Travel or Not to Travel: Australian Literatures in the World’
Helen Gilbert, ‘Diplomacy at Large: Trans-Indigenous Networks and the European Festival Circuit’
Chair: Michael Griffiths
As at 2 July 2015
Thursday 9 July
Session 8 2.10 – 3.10
8A Building 24 Room 203 Publishing (2)
Phillip Edmonds, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Creative Writing and Academic Publishing’
Jan Zwar, ‘“It feels like much more of a global community”: Australian Authors on Their Peers,
Readers, and the Changing Book Publishing Industry’
Chair: Roanna Gonsalves
8B Building 20 Theatre 2: Elegy
Jonathan Zapasnik, ‘Affective Witnessing in Timothy Conigrave’s Holding the Man
Hannah Schürholz, ‘On the third day he took me to the river…’: Exploring the cultural trajectory of
water, gender and death in popular Australian texts’
Chair: Tanya Thaweeskulchai
8C Building 20 Theatre 3: Gender and Canon
Jasna Novaković, ‘The Critic’s Starting Point is the Playtext, not the Performance’
Natalie Day, ‘Laura Trevelyan’s Ascendancy in White’s Voss’
Chair: Nicole Moore
8D Building 20 Theatre 4: Global/Local
Sneja Gunew, ‘Written Accents: Anglofono (αγγλόφωνο/Anglophone) Australian Literature’s Multilingualism and Multi-cultures’
Michael Griffiths, ‘Metalepsis and Inquiry in Short Fictions of Globalization’
Chair: Wenche Ommundsen
8E Building 20 Theatre 5: Expatriate Networks
Lucy Sussex, ‘The Perils of Talking to Journalists: How Expatriate Gossip Sundered Fergus Hume and
the Hansom Cab Publishing Company’
Paul Eggert, ‘The Anglo-Australian Network in 1890s London, Francis Adams and Henry Lawson:
Whose Bushman
Chair: Roger Osborne
8F Building 19 Room 1001: Colonialism
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, ‘Cooper, Cather, Prichard, Spy: Settler Colonialism as a Literary Network’
James Bedford, ‘Novels about the Past: A Brief Inquiry into the Rise of Literary Historical Fiction’
Chair: Gareth Griffiths
8G Building 19 Room 1002: Disciplinary History (2)
Ralph Spaulding, ‘Tasmania’s William Henry Williams’
Sarah Balkin, ‘Theatre Criticism in the Baillieu Library: Professor Ernest Scott and Obsolescent Media’
Chair: Philip Butterss
3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Building 24 Room G01)
3.30 – 5.00 Panel: Australia’s Literary Culture and the Australian Book Industry
(Building 20 Theatre 1)
Jill Eddington, Director of Literature at the Australia Council of the Arts
Linsay Knight, expert in children’s literature/co-founder, Pitt Street Poetry
Angelo Loukakis, Executive Director, Australian Society of Authors
David Throsby, Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
Charlotte Wood, Chair of Arts Practice, Literature, Australia Council for the Arts
Chair: Jan Zwar, postdoctoral fellow, Macquarie University
As at 2 July 2015
Friday 10 July
Session 9: 9.00 – 10.30
9A Building 24 Room 203: Victorian Madness
Megan Brown, ‘Sensational Insanity’
Meg Tasker, ‘(Writers’) Wives Go Mad in England’
Lucy Sussex, ‘Fergus Hume’s Father’s Asylum in New Zealand’
Chair: Katie Hansord
9B Building 20 Theatre 2: Spain
Michael Jacklin, ‘El Expreso and Australian Migrant Writing in Spanish’
Karen Daly, ‘Spanish Accounts of Pacific Exploration, A Lesser-Known Story’
Catherine Seaton, ‘The Newspaper Crónicas of Salvador Torrents: Interconnections with a Global
Readership’
Chair: Marie Rose B. Arong
9C Building 20 Theatre 3: Networking Literature
Claire Jansen, ‘Crowdfunding New Literary Networks’
Simone Murray, ‘Live and Local: Digital Networks and Literary Festivals’
Andrew McCann, ‘Das richtige Leben im falschen: Marketing, Media and their Discontents’
Chair: Katherine Bode
9D Building 20 Theatre 4: Animals Running through Japanese Literature
Tomoko Aoyama, ‘Ishii Momoko’s Cat from the Hills: Legacies and Inspirations’
Lucy Fraser, ‘The Animal-Human Connection in Retellings of The Eight Dog Chronicles’
Barbara Hartley, ‘Inquisitive Squirrels and Troublesome Mice: Animals in Takeda Taijun’s Fuji’
Chair: Jennifer McDonell
9E Building 20 Theatre 5: Author Networks
Sarah Dowling, ‘Reading Net/Works’
Luke Johnson, ‘The Author is an Autre’
Nick Lord, ‘Mapping Paul Auster’s Networks’
Chair: Chris Danta
9F Building 19 Room 1001: Story-telling
Roxanne Bodsworth, ‘Whose Story Is It? Moral and Legal Issues Associated with Cultural
Appropriation for Individual Creativity
Rachel Franks and Richard Neville, ‘Partner Storyteller and Enriching Well of Resources’
Jeanine Leane, ‘Networks of Survival and Continuance’
Chair: Evelyn Araluen Corr
9G Building 19 Room 1002: Theatre
Kerry Kilner, ‘Published, Unpublished, Performed, and Archived: Theatre Works in AustLit’
Julian Croft, ‘Catherine Shepherd (1902–1976)
Anne Pender, ‘Sumner Locke Elliott’s Invisible Circus: Theatrical and Digital Networks’
Chair: Helen Gilbert
10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01)
11.00 – 12.10 Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture: Susan K. Martin
Outback Fever: The Romance of Rural and
National Literary Identity in a Networked World
Chair: Leigh Dale (Building 20 Theatre 1)
12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)
As at 2 July 2015
Friday 10 July
Session 10: 1.00 – 2.00
10A Building 24 Room 203: Philippines
Marie Rose B. Arong, ‘Maria Clara No More: Resisting the Myth of the Postcolonial/Feminine Enigma
in Kerima Polotan’s and Edith Tiempo’s Novels’
Emily Yu Zong, ‘Disturbance of the White Man: Oriental Quests in Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman’
Chair: Robyn Morris
10B Building 20 Theatre 2: Diaspora (1)
Jessica Trevitt, ‘Vietnamese Diasporic Literature in Translation: An Alternative Approach to
Interdisciplinary Dialogue’
Annee Lawrence, ‘Kartini and Miles Franklin: Reading Indonesia and Australia Side by Side’
Chair: Michael Jacklin
10C Building 20 Theatre 3: Philosophy
Michael Campbell, ‘Fictionality, Experientiality and Narrativity in Descartes’s Meditations’
Don Johnston, ‘The Inherent Interdisciplinarity of a Postcolonial Symptomatological Methodology’
Chair: Jessica Marian
10D Building 20 Theatre 4: Autobiography/Biography
Keyvan Allahyari, ‘Autobiography as Subversive Literariness in Peter Carey’s Amnesia’
Mario Daniel Martín, ‘Migration as Suicide and Self-Parody’
Chair: Anne Pender
10E Building 20 Theatre 5: Digital
Katherine Bode, ‘Networks of Literary Works’
Tully Barnett, ‘Australian Literature in Mass Digitization Projects’
Chair: Anna Poletti
10F Building 19 Room 1001: Ghosts/Gothic (1)
Michael Ellis, ‘Randolph Stow and the Irish Big House Tradition’
Suzette Mayr, ‘The Sentient House in Picnic at Hanging Rock’
Chair: Jessica Gildersleeve
10G Building 19 Room 1002: Literary Prizes
Natalie Kon-yu, ‘“Beyond the Measure of Men”: Gender Bias in Literary Prize Culture’
Mostafa Azizpour, ‘Manumission or Helotry? Man Booker and the Politics of the Prize’
Chair: Pip Newling
10H Building 19 Room 1003: Writing and Reputation
Anthea Taylor, ‘Celebrity and the Cultural Reverberations of the “Feminist Blockbuster”’
Moya Costello, ‘Murray Bail, his contemporaries, and me: this réseau has holes’
Chair: Catherine Noske
As at 2 July 2015
Friday 10 July Session 11: 2.10 – 3.10
11A Building 24 Room 203: Borders
Felicity Castagna, ‘Literature and Invasion’
Evelyn Araluen Corr, ‘Narrating Borders: Fences, Boundaries, and Title in Aboriginal Writing’
Chair: Russell Smith
11B Building 20 Theatre 2: Diaspora (2)
Robyn Morris, ‘Diasporic Asian Trauma Narratives: Remembering and Commemorating Genocide’
Beibei Chen, ‘Transgenerational Memory and Second-generation Identity Politics in Behind the Moon’
Chair: Jessica Trevitt
11C Building 20 Theatre 3: Philosophy (2)
Damien Marwood, ‘The Fragment and the Dialogue: Obscurity, Irony, and Education [Bildung] via
Indirect Communication in the Literary Philosophy of Friedrich Schlegel
Catherine Noske, ‘Existential Pluralism: Applications of Ontological Philosophy in Literary Studies’
Chair: Ned Curthoys
11D Building 20 Theatre 4: Happiness
Nerida Wayland, ‘Happy are the Wretched: Alternate Views of Happiness in Comedic Young Adult
Fiction’
Juliane Roemhild, ‘“Smiles all round”: The Happy Ending and the “Eudaimonic Turn’”
Chair: Tomoko Aoyama
11E Building 20 Theatre 5: Stead
Helen Groth, ‘Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney and Acoustic Networks’
Brigid Rooney, ‘“Post Stephenson, Pre Ford”: Interwar Suburbia in Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
and Harford’s The Invaluable Mystery’
Chair: Susan Sheridan
11F Building 19 Room 1001: Ghosts/Gothic (2)
Ben Eldridge, ‘Dramatising Reliability in Chloe Hooper’s The Engagement’
Victoria Reeve, ‘Indigeneity, Ethnicity, Citizenship, Diaspora AND the Gothic: Diasporic ‘hauntings in
McFarlane’s The Night Guest’
Chair: Suzette Mayr
11G Building 19 Room 1002: Queer/Bodies
Shaun Bell, ‘Origins and Queer Childhood in the Fiction of Sumner Locke Elliott
Karina Quinn, ‘Écriture matière: A Text That Matters’
Chair: Danny Anwar
3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Building 24 Room G01)
3.30 – 5.00 Literary Studies in Australia: Structures and Futures
Building 20 Theatre 1
Chair: Professor Helen Groth, University of New South Wales
Stephen Slemon, Professor of English, University of Alberta, former President of the Association of
Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
Heather Murray, Professor of English, Toronto University, former President of ACCUTE
Anthony Uhlmann, President, Australian University Heads of English (AUHE)
Brigitta Olubas, President, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
Tom Clark, President, Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA)
Chris Danta, President, Australasian Association for Literature (AAL)
7 pm: Convention Dinner
Harbourfront Restaurant, 2 Endeavour Drive, Wollongong [Harbour].
Tel (02) 4227 2999
As at 2 July 2015
Saturday 11 July
Session 12: 9.30 – 11.00
12A Building 20 Theatre 2: Crime
Ryan Palmer, ‘Environmental Justice and the Ecology of Noir’
Helen Tiffin, ‘Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue and Verissimo’s Borges and the Eternal Orangutangs
Elise Payne, ‘Gender, Supporting Characters and Reading Villany in Patricia Cornwell’s Fiction’
Chair: Lucy Sussex
12B: Building 20 Theatre 3: The Sacred
Lyn McCredden, ‘Literary Studies and the Sacred’
Natalie Seger, ‘Michael Heald, Judith Beveridge, and the Poetics of Sacred Space across Australia and
India’
Lachlan Brown, ‘Tracking the Urban Sacred in Three Longer Poems’ [Jones, Hart and Frater]
Chair: Sarah Dowling
12C Building 20 Theatre 4: Network and Narrative
Gavin Smith, ‘The Cultural Resonances of Henry Lawson and Robert Frost’
Jenn Phillips, ‘Narrative Voice and the Revelation of Character in Sonya Hartnett’s Surrender and
Kalinda Ashton’s The Danger Game’
Rebecca Cross, ‘The effect of the network of small moments in Gretchen Shirm’s Having Cried Wolf’
Chair: Nathan Garvey
12D Building 20 Theatre 5: Coterie
Brigitta Olubas, ‘Translation, Cosmopolitan High Culture and the Literary Traffic of Shirley Hazzard
and Francis Steegmuller’
Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni, ‘Four Birds on the Expat Wire: George, Charmian, and “Birm” … (and
a Bit of Leonard)’
Guy Davidson, ‘Myra Breckenbridge and the Networks of Camp’
Chair: Clara Tuite
12E Building 20 Theatre 1: Women and Audience
Suzanne Srdarov, ‘‘‘Pens and Prejudice”: Examining Class-based Cultural Attitudes That Render
Invisible Some Women Readers and Writers’
Imogen Mathew, ‘Reader Response to Indigenous Australian Chick Lit’
Maggie Nolan and Janeese Henaway, ‘Connecting with Culture through Reading: The Murri Book
Club’
Chair: Jeanine Leane
11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea (Building 20 Foyer)
As at 2 July 2015
Saturday 11 July
Session 13: 11.30 – 12.30
13A Building 20 Theatre 1: Convicts
Nathan Garvey, ‘Testimony, Reform Networks, and the Literary Invention of the ‘Convict System’’
Daniel Hempel, ‘Prison Continent or Antipodean Utopia? Clash of Aesthetics in Early Visions of
Australia’
Chair: Paul Genoni
13B Building 20 Theatre 2: Animal/Posthuman
Chris Danta, ‘Stevenson’s Ants: On Species Thinking in Literature’
Adam Gall, ‘Cameron Conway’s Posthumanitarian Politics’
Chair: Helen Tiffin
13C: Building 20 Theatre 3: Nation
James Dahlstrom, ‘Peter Carey’s Challenge to a “Christian” Australia’
Natalie Pirotta, ‘The Vexed Issue of Landscape and Place-making in Australia: Making Peace with Our
Colonial Heritage’
Chair: Toby Davidson
13D Building 20 Theatre 4: Theorizing Memory
Ned Curthoys, ‘The Perpetrator as Witness: The Perpetrator Narrator’s Challenge to the “Symbolic
Geography of Evil”’
Magdalena Zolkos, ‘Memory Objects: Posthumanist Critique of Historical Memory in Jaume Cabré’s
Confessions’
Chair: Tanya Dalziell
13E Building 20 Theatre 5: Pacific
Charles Dawson, ‘Fluid Networks: Ecopoetics, Deep Metaphor and a River Given Standing’
Shayne Kearney, ‘David Malo and the Conundrum of Christian Conversion’
Chair: Maggie Nolan
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (Building 20 Foyer)
then …
going home!
Thank you for coming to Wollongong
Travel safely on your journey home
With special thanks to:
the indefatigable Robyn Morris for overseeing catering; the formidable Luanne Freeman for
overseeing logistics, along with Laura Potter (web) and Chiara Rigoni; Leonie Clement and Hayley de
Rooy for life-saving foresight; Amanda Lawson as Dean for financial support; Sarah Miller as Head of
School and Guy Davidson as Head of English and Writing for promotion and moral support;
Alicia Gaffney as student overseer and Anne Collett as convenor of student participation;
Pip Newling for copy editing; Wendy, Sarah and Hanna for “above and beyond” in catering;
Lydia McDonnell for photography; Frances Cortiana for getting books;
our keynotes and special guests for travelling long distances and being so professional, the three
fantastic presidents, Tom Clark (AULLA), Chris Danta (AAL) and Brigitta Olubas (ASAL), and their
executives, for enabling this to happen; Anne Collett, Liz McMahon, Nicole Moore, Heather Murray,
Laetitia Nanquette, Stephen Slemon, Anthony Uhlmann, Louise D’Arcens and Kate Noske for
presenting at workshops, and finally, members of the English and Writing Program at UoW: Melissa
Boyde, Cathy Cole, Anne Collett, Shady Cosgrove, Timothy Daly, Louise D’Arcens, Debra Dudek, Mike
Griffiths, Michael Jacklin, Robyn Morris, Wenche Ommundsen, Alan Wearne and Ika Willis.
As at 2 July 2015