As part of the 2008 ASAL conference ASAL will be collaborating with the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) to host a one day stream on texts and literature by and about Asian Australia. (more…)

ASAL calls for papers to be presented at their 2008 conference, ‘Australian Literature in a Global World, 30th anniversary conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’ (more…)

The new issue of JASAL, the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, is now available at http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature congratulates Jennifer Strauss on her award of AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, “For service to education as an academic and scholar in the field of Australian literature and poetry, and to a range of organisations involved in women’s issues and industrial relations”. (more…)

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Elizabeth Jolley who died last week.

Elizabeth Jolley joined the Western Australian Institute of Technology in 1978 as a lecturer in Creative Writing in what subsequently became Curtin’s School of Communication and Cultural Studies. She continued teaching in Communication and Cultural Studies until 2000. (more…)