The A.D. Hope Prize will be awarded annually for the paper judged to be the best ASAL July annual conference paper delivered by a postgraduate student. The paper is to be sent to the judging panel, in publishable form, after the conference (date to be announced each year). The winning paper will receive publication in JASAL and $500.

The winner of the A.D. Hope Prize for 2009 is Duncan Hose, ‘Instruction for an Ideal Australian: John Forbes’s Poetry of Metaphysical Etiquette’.

Previous Winners

2008  Scott Brewer ‘”A Peculiar Aesthetic”: Julia Leigh’s The Hunter and Sublime Loss’

2007 Joanne Jones “Dancing the Old Enlightenment” and Ben Miller “David Unaipon’s style of subversion” JASAL (Special Issue 2008)

2006 Julieanne Lamond “The Ghost of Dad Rudd: On the Stump” JASAL (2007)

2005 Catriona Ross “Prolonged Symptoms of Cultural Anxiety: The Persistence of Narratives of Asian Invasion within Multicultural Australia” JASAL 5 (2006)

2004 Sandra Knowles “The Not Quite Real Miles Franklin: Diaries as Performance” JASAL 4 (2005)