Convenor Brian Matthews |
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Jane Arms has been an editor for many years working with a variety of publishers both in Australia and overseas. She has edited many award-winning books.
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Bruce Bennett AO is Professor of English at the University of New South Wales at ADFA and a Fellow (and Editor) of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
| Hermina Burns is currently Assistant Principal at Eltham High School. She has been a contributor to the educational debate concerning the teaching of Young Adult Australian fiction, and has presented papers on adolescent fiction and its cultural signficance, at VATE state and AATE national conferences. She has reviewed YA fiction for specialist journals. Her published articles include 'Twinning History and Literature', in La Marca's Back to Books; 'Out of Fantasy: The Fantasy Genre and Adolescent Readers'; and most recently, in Idiom, 'Professing Literature and the Cult of the Text'. |
Inga Clendinnen is a distinguished historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya indians of sixteenth-century America, and author of Reading the Holocaust, named a New York Times best book of the year and awarded the New South Wales Premier’s General History award in 1999. Her 1999 ABC Boyer lectures, True Stories, were published in 2000, as was her award-winning memoir, Tiger's Eye. Inga Clendinnen’s scholarly papers, literary essays and short fiction have been widely published. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
| Tim Dolin is a Research Fellow with the Australia Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology. He specialises in the circulation of cultural forms, cultural practices, and ideas in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and Australia. He is working on a study of Australian cultural history which examines the dissemination and reception of popular and literary fiction in Australia since 1888. |
Morag Fraser is an essayist, journalist, former editor (from 1991-2003) of Eureka Street, and currently Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. Since the early 1990s she has been a regular columnist with The Age, and other metropolitan dailies, a frequent reviewer for a wide spectrum of newspapers and magazines, national and international, and a regular commentator on ABC radio. Her publications include Save Our ABC: The Case for Maintaining Australia’s National Broadcaster, Seams of Light, Best Antipodean Essays, the Daniel Mannix entry in The Oxford Companion to Australian History and chapters and essays in many books on subjects as diverse as Jane Eyre, universities, and Australian landscape gardening. She has been Chair of the Melbourne Writers' Festival since 2001 and is on the advisory board of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. |
| Dr Tom Griffiths is a Senior Fellow in the History Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of Forests of Ash: An Environmental History (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which was a finalist in the Eureka Science Book Prize for 2002. Dr Griffiths is also the author of Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia, which won the Victorian and NSW Premiers' Literary Prizes for Non-Fiction and the NSW ‘Book of the Year’ Award for 1996. In the summer of 2002-3 he travelled to Antarctica as a Humanities Fellow with the Australian Antarctic Division. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
Michael Heyward is publisher at Text Publishing. He is the author of The Ern Malley Affair. |
| Liz Jacka is Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
Iain McCalman is a Federation Fellow and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His most recent book is The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro (HarperCollins). |
| Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
Vincent O’Sullivan is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, biographer, critic and editor. Until recently he was Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington. |
| Peter Porter is an Australian-born poet resident in London. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Australian Literature in 1990 and the 2002 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. His published works include Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, The Cost of Seriousness: Collected Poems, The Automatic Oracle, and Max is Missing. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
Elspeth Probyn is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
| Peter Rose is a writer and publisher. He is the author of three books of poetry and the winner of various awards. For five years he was a judge of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and is now the editor of Australian Book Review. Rose Boys, his first work of non-fiction, was joint winner of the National Biography Award for 2003. |
Guy Rundle is co-editor of Arena Magazine, the Australian magazine of left political, social and cultural commentary. He writes for stage and screen, with recent work including the hit Max Gillies show Your Dreaming, and the musical All Het Up. His publications include The Opportunist: John Howard and the triumph of reaction (Australian Quarterly Essay Number Three) and he has worked in television radio and comedy in Australia and the UK for many years, most recently as a producer of the Nine Network's Comedy Inc. He is a frequent contributor to Australian newspapers and magazines. |
| Lucy Sussex is an author, editor and researcher who works in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and children's literature. She has written three novels for younger readers: The Penguin Friend (1997), The Peace Garden (1989), The Revognase (2003), two for young adults, Black Ice (1996) and Deersnake (1995), and the adult novel The Scarlet Rider (1996). Her short fiction has appeared widely, and was collected as My Lady Tongue (1990). She has edited four anthologies, of which She's Fantastical (1996) was short listed for the World Fantasy Award. She also writes the Books Column in the Sunday Age. |
Ian Templeman AM, founder of Fremantle Arts Centre Press and the Canberra-based Molonglo Press, is publisher of Pandanus Books in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU. He is Chair of the Australian Capital Territory Cultural Council and a member of the National Selection Committee for Australian Fulbright Awards. |
| Stephanie Trigg is Associate Professor and Reader in English at the University of Melbourne. Her research is concerned with the ideological work performed by medieval literature, and the uses made of the medieval past by post-medieval culture. Her most recent book, Congenial Souls (Minnesota, 2002), examines the reading communities of Geoffrey Chaucer, from the fourteenth century through to the present. She is currently teaching a new first-year subject, Contemporary Global Literature. |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a poet and essayist based in Melbourne. He has lived in Britain, the United States and Italy, has taught at Harvard and read his poems all round the world. Wallace-Crabbe has published a dozen books of poetry, plus prose works, art criticism and varied anthologies. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
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