JOURNAL BOARD AND PROJECT ADVISERS
AUSTRALIA
ANNE BREWSTER (UNSW)
Anne Brewster teaches at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Literary Formations: Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Globalism (1996), Aboriginal Women's Autobiography (1995),Towards a Semiotic of Post-colonial Discourse: University Writing in Singapore and Malaysia 1949-1964 (1988) and Notes on Catherine Lim's Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore, with Kirpal Singh (1987). She co-edited, with Angeline O’Neill and Rosemary van den Berg, an anthology of Australian Indigenous Writing, Those Who Remain Will Always Remember (2000). She is on the editorial board of Cultural Studies Review and a board member of the multimedia and sound art group austraLYSIS. She was a judge for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2004 and 2006 and the New South Wales Premier’s Award in 2002 and 2007.
BRIAN CASTRO (UNIVERSITY of ADELAIDE)
Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong of Portuguese, Chinese and English parentage and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is the author of eight novels, including the multi award-winning Double-Wolf and Shanghai Dancing.
He has also published a volume of essays. His latest novel is The Garden Book. His next novel, The Bath Fugues, will be published by Giramondo in March 2009. He is the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.
DELIA FALCONER (UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY)
Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds (1997) and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (2005; republished as The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories in 2006), both of which have been short listed for major awards including the Miles Franklin. Her short stories and essays are widely anthologised here and overseas. She is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Road and Best Australian Stories, 2008 which will both be published in November 2008. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne, and is the inaugural Scholar in Writing
in Creative Practice in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.
MARTIN HARRISON (UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY)
Martin Harrison is the author of several volumes of poetry including Summer (Paper Bark Press 2001) which won the Wesley Michel Wright award for poetry, The Kangaroo Farm (Paper Bark Press 1997) and The Distribution of Voice (University of Queensland Press 1993). Music (Vagabond Press) appeared in 2005. His selected poems Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems has just been published by University of Western Australia Press. He writes essays and critical reviews as well as poetry. A collection of essays about Australian poetry, contemporary writing and the sense of place and environment Who Wants to Create Australia? appeared from Halstead Press in 2004 and was selected as one of the Times Literary Supplement’s International Books of the Year 2004. His poetry has been translated into German, Czech and Mandarin. An edition of his poems translated into Mandarin appeared this year in Nanjing, China. His work has been published in most Australian magazines as well as overseas journals including Poetry (Chicago), the London Review of Books, Poetry Review (UK) and the Edinburgh Review. Recipient of several Australia Council fellowships, his international writers' residencies include the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome and Yaddo Artists Colony in up-state New York. He is just about to take up the Keesing residency in Paris for the later part of 2008. He is based in the Hunter Valley and he teaches writing and poetry at the University of Technology in Sydney.
YVETTE HOLT (UQLD)
Brisbane born poet, Yvette Holt, is a graduate from the University of Technology, Sydney, she holds a degree in Adult Education with a Major in Business. Yvette currently occupies two positions at the University of Queensland, firstly as researcher at Austlit: The Resource for Australian Literature, where she develops the contents of the Black Words Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander subset and also lecturer of Aboriginal Women's Studies at UQ.
In 2005 Yvette won the David Unaipon Award (Queensland Premier's Literary Award), her first published collection of poetry is aptly titled Anonymous Premonition (UQP) it has been described as evocative, daring and poetically active. A speaker of national and international interests for Indigenous women globally, Yvette is keenly interested in pursuing the spoken-word for women whose voices are often silenced by the 'otherwise' dominate cultures.
ANTONI JACH (RMIT)
Antoni Jach is a novelist and a painter. He is the author of the novel, Napoleon’s Double (Giramondo) — a narrative enlisting history and philosophy for its own neo-baroque purposes. He is also the author of An Erratic History (Brunswick Hills Press), a history of Australia in poetry, and two other novels: The Weekly Card Game (McPheeGribble/Penguin), a tragicomic study of quotidian repetition and The Layers of the City (Hodder Headline), a meditation on contemporary Paris, civilization and barbarism (which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award and was translated into Turkish as Sehrin Katmanlari). He is the author of Miss Furr and Miss Skeene, plays 1 & 2 and is the creator of a series of videoart pieces that use Still Life as the series title. He is the publisher at Modern Writing Press, is an advisory editor for HEAT literary magazine, and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at RMIT University.
NICHOLAS JOSE (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY)
Nicholas Jose has published several acclaimed novels, including Paper Nautilus (1987), Avenue of Eternal Peace (1989; new edition 2008), The Custodians (1997), The Red Thread (2000) and Original Face (2005), as well as short stories, essays, translations and a memoir, Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola (2002). He has written widely on contemporary Asian and Australian culture and is general editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. He held the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, 2005-08 and currently has a Chair in Writing in the Writing & Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney.
DAVID McCOOEY (DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, VICTORIA)
David McCooey is a poet, critic, and academic. He is the author of two
prize-winning books: Artful Histories: Modern Australian
Autobiography (which won a NSW Premier's Literary Award in 1996) and
Blister Pack (a collection of poems that won the Mary Gilmore Award
in 2006 and was short-listed for four other major awards). David is
also the author of numerous book chapters, essays, poems, and reviews
published in national and international publications. From 2003-2006
he was the associate editor of Space: New Writing. He is the Deputy
General Editor of the forthcoming Macquarie PEN Anthology of
Australian Literature. He is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University
(Geelong), teaching and researching in literary studies and
professional and creative writing.
STEPHEN MUECKE (UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY)
Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has worked extensively in Indigenous Australia and more recently on the historical and contemporary links between culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean. His 1984 Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (with Krim Benterrak and Paddy Roe) was one of the first postmodern ethnographies. Ancient & Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy (UNSW Press 2004) contests the idea of civilisational progress in Australia. He is well known for his ficto-critical writing style (No Road (bitumen all the way), 1997; and more recently Joe in the Andamans and Other Fictocritical Stories, (Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 2008).
KERRY KILNER, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Kerry Kilner is an Arts Faculty Research Fellow at The University of Queensland and Director of AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (www.austlit.edu.au).
She is an Associate Editor and project manager of The Bibliography of Australian Literature (UQP, 2004, 2007, 2008) and has been involved in Australian literary research and bibliographical compilation since 1993 when, at Monash University, she co-compiled The List of Australian Writers (1995).
Since then she has compiled a bibliography of Australian drama From Page to Stage (2000, available through AustLit). As Director of AustLit, Kerry is responsible for the implementation of a multi-institution collaborative program to support research into, and the teaching of, Australian literature within Australia and internationally.
JOURNAL BOARD AND PROJECT ADVISERS INTERNATIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM
IAN HENDERSON (MENZIES CENTRE, KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON)
Ian Henderson is a Lecturer in Australian Literature and Film, King's College London, and foundation editor of Studies in Australasian Cinema. He was born in Canberra and grew up in Melbourne and Tasmania before completing his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2001 and lecturing at Griffith University in Brisbane. He began work at King's College London in 2004. His research falls into two areas: the history of reading, with a focus on mid-Victorian British and Australian colonial literary culture; and Australian film. His PhD thesis (2001) focused on reading history, specifically the European and colonial Australian reception of Jacques-Herni Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (1788), in the 19th century when the novel achieved its most wide-spread fame. He has a continuing interest in the colonial culture of Van Diemen's Land. His current research focuses on the history of reading in the third quarter of the 19th century. Methodologically it folds contemporary cultural assumptions and early scientific theories about the reading process into the interpretation of a set of high-profile texts of the period, including Lady Audley's Secret (Braddon), It Is Never Too Late to Mend (Reade), A Strange Story (Bulwer Lytton), and Great Expectations (Dickens). These all feature significant references to the Australasian colonies figured as the Antipodes. His research in Australian cinema focuses on concepts of Indigenous modernity.
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/menzies
Studies in Australasian Cinema http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17503175
USA
PAUL KANE (VASSAR)
Paul Kane is a past president of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies and poetry editor of its journal, Antipodes. He is the author of a critical study, Australian Poetry: Romanticism & Negativity (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and has published numerous essays, reviews and articles pertaining to Australian literature and culture. A Fulbright scholar at Melbourne University in 1984-85, he has taught at Monash University, as well as Yale University and Vassar College, where he is presently Professor of English. Kane has published ten books, including a collection of poems about Australia, A Slant of Light (Whitmore Press, 2008). He serves as Artistic Director of the Mildura Writers Festival and, with his wife Tina, splits his time between homes in New York and rural Victoria.
http://www.mrimf.com.au/writers/
http://www.poems.com/feature.php?date=13746
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22673253-5003900,00.html
FRANCE
XAVIER PONS (UNIVERSITY OF TOLOUSE-LE MIRAIL)
Xavier Pons is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. He was formerly a Research Fellow at Flinders University and a Visiting Professor at various Australian universities. He was President of the European Association for Studies on Australia (1995-99). He has published numerous scholarly contributions and papers in the field of Australian Studies and translated Australian fiction into French. His major publications include Out of Eden (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984), A Sheltered Land (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994) and Departures (Melbourne : MUP, 2002). He is completing a study of representations of sex in Australian writing.
NEW CALEDONIA
JEAN-FRANCOIS VERNAY (INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE POUR LA FORMATION DES MAÎTRES, NOUMÉA)
Born in New Caledonia of a French father and an Australian mother, Dr. Jean-François VERNAY specialises in Australian fiction. His first monograph, Water From the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch, was released by Cambria Press in 2007:
http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=5&bid=48
His new book is a conspectus of the Australian novel (1831-2007) entitled Panorama du roman australien des origines à nos jours will be published by Hermann éditions, a Paris-based publisher, in late 2008.
http://www.editions-hermann.fr/en_presentation.php
He currently guest-edits a special issue of Antipodes with Dr Nathanael O'Reilly due out in June 2009:
http://www.australianliterature.org/antipodes_special_issue.htm
