Another memorable Aust Lit milestone….
3-5 July 2013,
Charles Sturt University,
Wagga Wagga, NSW
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/news 
PDF poster available here

Awards: Presentation of the 2013 ALS Gold Medal (outstanding Australian literary work) and the 2013 Walter McCrae Russell Award (best Aust Lit scholarship)

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri woman and author of Purple Threads and Dark Secrets: After Dreaming, Australian National University, Canberra
Associate Professor Alison Ravenscroft, author of The Postcolonial Eye, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing Brian Castro (Shanghai Dancing, The Garden Book, Street to Street)

Panels: Mark Macleod (Charles Sturt University) will head up a panel/section on children’s literature. Keri Glastonbury (University of Newcastle) will do the same for poetry/poetics/creative writing.

Plus:
Ivor Indyk on ‘The Provincial Imagination’
Vijay Mishra on Salman Rushdie’s Australia
Nicholas Birns on Australia, the Russian Pacific, and the Transnational Imaginary
Lachlan Brown on Nam Le and many more

…on Australian poetry, regionalism, 19th century writing, teaching Aust lit…

….and Parody Night will return to ASAL (will the Frank Moorhouse perpetual prize for postmodern ballroom dancing return to the conference dinner? Can we have a sneak preview of CSU’s new literary vintage wines???….).

Registration information:
The best way to use the registration form http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/news is to either:
1)      Fill it in on the screen (the form is ‘dynamic’ and will tally up the costs); save it to your desktop somewhere as a pdf then attach it to an email addressed to humgen@csu.edu.au  or
2)      Print off the form, fill it in, scan it to your computer and attach it to an email addressed to humgen@csu.edu.au. 

N.B. Before you complete the Registration form you should, separately, join ASAL: http://asaliterature.com/?page_id=5.  If you are joining ASAL for a first time or after an absence, please attach pdf of payment evidence to your registration.  If you are a current member your membership dues fall on or before June 30.  

There is some (limited) assistance for Australian postgrads (thanks to a grant from Copyright Agency) which can be requested as a reimbursement after you have presented your paper at ASAL 2013.  Documentary evidence of having tried and been unsuccessful in soliciting support from your university will be necessary.

Travel:
As the www.visitwagga.com website shows you can get to Wagga easily by car, train, plane and bus (for the ASAL 1991 conference it was said John Forbes brought his bicycle on the train…).  There are two trains from Sydney and Melbourne each day, three Rex flights from Melbourne and quite a few Qantas flights between Wagga and Sydney or Melbourne).  There are only a couple of buses through – Greyhound and McCaffertys. 

If you are coming from overseas or from places outside Sydney or Melbourne you’ll have to come through Sydney or Melbourne – this can sometimes have the advantage of adding price options.

Accommodation:
Information about accommodation options in Wagga can be found here.

In addition to the commercial details of hotels, motels, pubs, b&b, camping facilities on the Visitor Information brochure, there are 13 rooms (two of them are twin beds) at The Riverine Club, where the conference dinner will be on the evening of Friday 5 July.  This is an old (built in the 1880s) gentlemen’s club so the rooms are traditional (spartan, shared bathrooms along the corridor, but very much part of an era: ‘unique and comfortable’ is the publicity blurb). $90/room including cont. b/f.  They have been put aside for ASAL delegates. Ph +61269212031.

As well, there will be basic accommodation available on campus which is 10km from the city of Wagga.  Because it is residential school time, most accommodation, including the more recent is already allocated.  Rates will be something like:   |

Bed Only$45.00
Bed/Breakfast$50.00
Dinner/Bed/Breakfast$60.00

For further details please contact:

David Gilbey
Adjunct Senior Lecturer in English,
School of Humanities & Social Sciences,
Charles Sturt University,
Locked Bag 588,
Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2678,
Australia.
ph/fax +61 2 6933 2465
dgilbey@csu.edu.au

Alternate contact:
Dr Lachlan Brown,
Lecturer in English at CSU as above,
ph/fax +61 2 6933 2478
labrown@csu.edu.au

Full-time, 3 year fixed term position (or 2.5 years depending on start date): $104.6K – $124.2K p.a. (including salary, leave loading and up to 17% super)

The University of Sydney is Australia’s first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7500 permanent staff supporting over 49,000 students.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse range of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region and is regularly ranked in the 20 top faculties of its kind.

The School of Letters, Art and Media is a vibrant school whose pedagogic practice, research profile and external engagements are shaped by the synergistic benefits of bringing together traditional disciplines with long intellectual histories such as art history, English and linguistics with newer sub disciplinary or interdisciplinary formations such as media and communication and museum studies.

The Department of English’s Australian Literature Program is Australia’s leading centre for research and teaching in Australian literature. In this role you will have access to the Australian Literature Resources Centre, which regularly hosts national and international visitors.

In this exciting lectureship opportunity you will:
- teach and convene the foundation unit ENGL 1008 – Australian Texts: International Contexts
- contribute to teaching other undergraduate (and potentially postgraduate) courses in Australian literature and English
- make an important contribution to the research strengths of the school in the field of Australian literary studies, including regular publication in journals of high ranking and other quality outlets
- supervise undergraduate and postgraduate research students
- develop effective interdisciplinary collaborations within the University, across academic fields and with external stakeholders
- actively contribute to academic administration and be engaged in the life of the English department.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving and intellectually ambitious department in a world-class university which attracts the very best students from Australia and overseas.

Details are available here.

On behalf of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), the judging panel announce with pleasure the Long List for the 2013 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal.

Lily Brett, Lola Bensky (Hamish Hamilton: Penguin)
Jessie Cole, The Darkness on the Edge of Town (4th Estate: Harper Collins Publishers)
Michelle De Kretser, Questions of Travel (A&U)
Robert Drewe, Montebello (Hamish Hamilton: Penguin)
Chloe Hooper, The Engagement (Hamish Hamilton: Penguin)
Robert Gray, Cumulus: Collected Poems (John Leonard Press)
Cate Kennedy, Like a House on Fire (Scribe)
Christopher Koch, Lost Voices (4th Estate: Harper Collins Publishers)
Drusilla Modjeska, The Mountain (Vintage: Random House)
Gerald Murnane, A History of Books (Giramondo)
P. A. O’Reilly, The Fine Colour of Rust (Blue Door: Harper Collins Publishers)
M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans (Vintage: Random House)

Our thanks go to the publishers for submitting their titles for judging.  Over eighty titles were submitted, a group that represents both the quality and diversity of Australian literary publishing.  (Titles were submitted by A & U, Black Inc, Blue Door, Fremantle Press, Fourth Estate, Giramondo, Hybrid, John Leonard Press, Macmillan, New South Books, Penguin, Picador, Picaro Press, UQP, Scribe, Text, Transit Lounge, Vagabond, Vintage and Wakefield Press.)

We also extend our thanks to the writers represented on this list.  The excellence of the work submitted made our task difficult but it was also affirming to engage with the depth of talent on the current Australian literary scene.

The Short List will be announced on March 18, 2013.

Yours sincerely

ALS Gold Medal Judging Panel
Dr Jo Jones (Chair), Curtin University
Professor Terri-ann White, UWA Publishing
Associate Professor Paul Genoni, Curtin University

The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature has published its latest issue, ‘Transnational Imaginaries: Reading Asian Australian Writing’, at http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal.

Full text of papers from the annual ASAL conference proceedings 1994-2000 (over 200 papers) are now available in the ARCHIVES of the JASAL website.

The latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia has been placed online at: http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/jeasaiindexvol3no2.html

It contains articles on Uranium Mining and Aboriginal Communities, John Mateer, Gail Jones, Alexis Wright, Tim Winton, Christos Tsiolkas, and Literary Hoaxes, principally They’re a Weird Mob and The Hand That Signed the Paper.