Literary Studies Convention @ Wollongong brought to you by AAL, ASAL and AULLA with the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, English and Writing Program of the University of Wollongong

Program Overview Tuesday 7 July Time Venue Workshops 11.00 – 12.30 Building 19 Lunch 12.30 – 1.30 Building 24 Room G01 Session 1 1.30 – 3.00 Buildings 20 and 24 Session 2 3.10 – 4.10 Buildings 19 and 20 Reception 4.00 – 5.00 Building 24 Room G01 and foyer Welcome to Country 5.00 Hope Lecture Theatre (40.153) Presentation of Prizes 5.15 “ ” Keynote: Tony Birch 5.30 “ ”

Wednesday 8 July Session 3 9.00 – 10.30 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 Building 24 Room G01 Keynote: Carolyn Dinshaw 11.00 – 12.10 Building 20 Theatre 1 Lunch + AUHE Meeting 12.10 – 1.00 Building 24 Room G01/AUHE 20.5 Session 4 1.00 – 2.00 Buildings 19 and 20 Session 5 2.10 – 3.10 Buildings 19 and 20 Afternoon Tea 3.10 – 3.30 Building 24 Room G01 Association AGMs 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 various theatres

Thursday 9 July Session 6 9.00 – 10.30 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 Building 20 Room G01 Keynote: Rita Felski 11.00 – 12.10 Building 20 Theatre 1 Lunch 12.10 – 1.00 Building 24 Room G01 Session 7 1.00 – 2.00 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Session 8 2.10 – 3.10 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Afternoon Tea 3.10 – 3.30 Building 24 Room G01 Panel: Publishing/Book Industry 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 Theatre 1

Friday 10 July Session 9 9.00 – 10.30 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 Building 24 Room G01 Keynote: Susan K. Martin 11.00 – 12.10 Building 20 Theatre 1 Lunch 12.10 – 1.00 Building 24 Room G01 Session 10 1.00 – 2.00 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Session 11 2.10 – 3.10 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Afternoon Tea 3.10 – 3.30 Building 24 Room G01 Forum: Literary Studies 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 Theatre 1 Convention Dinner 7 pm til … (not very) late? Harbourfront Restaurant

Saturday 11 July [Building 24 is not used on this day] Session 12 9.30 – 11.00 Buildings 19 and 20 Morning Tea 11.00 – 11.30 Building 20 Foyer Session 13 11.30 – 12.30 Building 20 Lunch 12.30 – 1.30 Building 20 Foyer

For full program, please read on … for abstracts, go to http://lha.uow.edu.au/lit-net2015/index.html As at 2 July 2015 Tuesday 7 July

11.00 – 12.30 Workshops (Building 19) Career development (1): The job application and interview (Building 19 Room 1001) Career development (2): Getting tenure: planning research and teaching (Building 19 Room 1002) Career development (3): From mid-career to management (Building 19 Room 1003) Career development (4): Beyond the academy (Building 19 Room 1004) How to get the most out of conferences and candidature (Building 19 Room 2100) Getting published: what do readers, editors, and publishers look for? (Building 19 Room 2003) Teaching literature – issues in lectures and tutorials (Building 19 Room 1093)

ASAL Executive Meeting (Building 20 Theatre 5)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)

Session 1: 1.30 – 3.00 1A Building 24 Room 203: Indigenous Story Jacqui Katona, Sandra Phillips, and Alison Ravenscroft. This panel will outline the potential reach of a project from the Centre for Indigenous Story (La Trobe University) for networking between Indigenous people, and between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians. Chair: Bernadette Brennan 1B Building 20 Theatre 2: Between Poem and Painting: Collaboration, Crushes, and Court Favourites in the New York School Ann Vickery, ‘Playing Favourites: Considering the Minor Intimacy of Jane Freilicher and the New York School’ Ella O’Keefe, ‘Writing in Painting: Barbara Guest’s Visual Collaborations’ Duncan Hose, ‘“You in Me, That is What the Soul Is”: How Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers Made the Cult of “Us”’ Chair: Jill Jones 1C Building 20 Theatre 3: India – Australia Deirdre Coleman and Sashi Nair, ‘India and Australia in the Nineteenth Century’ Roanna Gonsalves, ‘The Survival of the Friendliest: Learning to be a Writer in Contemporary India’ Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan, ‘Looking back at India: Humour in “Sticks and Stones and Such Like” and “Homework”’ Chair: Paul Sharrad 1D Building 20 Theatre 4: Networks of Mobility: Place, Space and Value Sarah Galletly, ‘Mobilising the Pacific Imaginary: Periodical Fiction and Australian Travel Networks in the Interwar Period’ Robyn Greaves, ‘Women, Space and Representation in Twentieth-Century Australia’ Victoria Kuttainen, ‘Picture This: Australian Magazines, Contemporaneity, Visuals and Value 1920s– 30s’ Chair: Christina Spittel 1E Building 20 Theatre 5: Gender, Violence and Humanitarianism Sue Kossew and Anne Brewster, ‘Australian Women’s Literature’s Articulation with Discursive Networks of Sexual Violence’ Anne Maxwell, ‘The Humanitarian Politics of Eleanor Dark’s Slow Dawning’ Shamara Ransirini Pitiyage, ‘Radical Subjectivities: Marion May Campbell’s Konkretion’ Chair: Lyn McCredden

As at 2 July 2015 Tuesday 7 July Session 2: 3.10 – 4.10 2A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (1) Christopher Oakey, ‘The Literary Network as Cultural Project: Ron Silliman and Language Poetry’ Rose Lucas, ‘The Shimmering Image: Poetry and Paying Attention’ Chair: Ella O’Keefe

2B Building 20 Theatre 3: Reception (1) Tom Clark, ‘Reference, Texture, and Poetics in Tony Abbott’s Medieval Dreaming’ Sasha Henriss-Anderssen, ‘Gazing at Fallen Leaves: Feminine Subjectivity in Fruits Basket Chair: Heather Neilson

2C Building 20 Theatre 4: Conjuring Bodies Francesca Rendle-Short, ‘Non/fictive Bodies: Fleshing out Absence/Drawing Presence’ Merlinda Bobis, ‘Aesth-ethics’ and Disappeared Bodies: Between absence and presence’ Chair: Emily Yu Zong

2D Building 20 Theatre 5: Normativity and the Posthuman Elizabeth Stephens, ‘Networks of Normality: Rethinking (Anti-)Normativity in Contemporary Critical Theory’ Monique Rooney, ‘It’s Impossible’ Chair: Emily Potter

2E Building 19 Room 1002: Gallipoli/ANZAC Christina Spittel, ‘Paper Gallipolis: Imagining the Peninsula in Australian Novels, 1916-2014’ Troy Potter, ‘Mateship, Binary Narratives and the ANZAC Tradition’ Chair: Ian Campbell

2F Building 19 Room 1003: Indigeneity and Representation Fiona Polack, ‘Tony Birch’s Blood, and Oil’ Chunli Xing, ‘The Aboriginal-White Relationship in The Secret River and Carpentaria’ Chair: Michael Griffiths

4.00 – 5.00 Reception (Building 24 Foyer)

5.00 – Welcome to Country, Dr Barbara Nicholson (Hope Lecture Theatre, aka Building 40 Room 153)

5.15 – Presentation of Prizes, including ALS Gold Medal (Hope Theatre)

5.40 – 6.40 Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture: Tony Birch ‘The Sky lay flat upon the earth and covered it like a blanket’: Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledge and the Privilege of Apocalyptic Fantasies Chair: Brigitta Olubas

As at 2 July 2015 Wednesday 8 July Session 3: 9.00 – 10.30 3A Building 24 Room 203: Spatiality (1) Elizabeth McMahon, ‘The Regional Archipelago: Re-membering Literary Networks’ Meg Brayshaw, ‘“No light, no land or sea”: A Geocritical Reading of Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City Jasmin Kelaita, ‘Literary Reading in the Extra-literary World’ Chair: Brigitta Olubas 3B Building 20 Theatre 2: Reception (2) Alison Bell, ‘Getting “Carried” away: What Do Popular Characters Tell Us about Their Audiences?’ Heather Neilson, ‘The Networks of The Lone Ranger’ Paul Sharrad, ‘Networking Asmara: Tom Keneally and Eritrea’ Chair: Simone Murray 3C Building 20 Theatre 3: Creative Writing Camilla Palmer, ‘HOLOGRAMS’ Tanya Thaweeskulchai, ‘Image and Landscape: Intertwining the Two Collections of Prose Poems, The Laughter and the Crow and Ashes and Fire in the House of Portraits’ James Bedford, ‘Into the Wakes of Leviathan’ Chair: Ann Vickery 3D Building 20 Theatre 4: Environment Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, ‘Lively Ethography: Storying Animal Worlds’ Kate Wright, ‘How to Tell Stories in Nonhuman Voices’ Laura Jean McKay, ‘The Disappearing Animal: Representations of Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Fiction’ Chair: Jennifer Hamilton 3E Building 20 Theatre 5: Emotion Megan Nash, ‘Authorising Emotion: Feeling and Writing in the Novels of Elizabeth Harrower and Elizabeth Bowen’ Sue Parker, ‘Sentimentality, Emotion and Gender in Furphy’s Such is Life’ Jessica Taylor, ‘“Rights, Not Privileges. It’s That Easy, It Really Bloody Is!”: Working-Class Women’s Anger in Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham’ Chair: Susan K. Martin 3F Building 19 Room 1001: Transformations of the Book Jocelyn Hargrave, ‘Transtextual Editorial Margins within George Howe’s NSW Pocket Almanack’ Katie Hansord, ‘Poetry, Spiritualism, and Periodical Print Culture: Literary Networks and Emily Manning’s The Balance of Pain’ Anna Poletti, ‘How the Book has Shaped Thinking about Autobiography’ Chair: Paul Eggert 3H Building 19 Room 1002: Imagination and Crisis Anne Collett, ‘Poetic Response to Caribbean Hurricane and Marronage Imaginary’ Chrystopher Spicer, ‘The Cyclone Which is at the Heart of Things: The Cyclone as Trope of Place and Apocalypse in Queensland Literature’ Gareth Griffiths, ‘Human Rights and the Literary Imaginary’ Chair: Alice te Punga Somerville 3G Building 19 Room 1003: Temporalities Steven Hampton, ‘A Network of Nightmares: Fuseli, Marx and Raising the Dead’ Alison Cardinale, ‘Reading Coleridge and Romanticism after Heisenberg’ Evan Milner, ‘Danubian Travel Writing and Competing Ideas of Tradition’ Chair: Will Christie

As at 2 July 2015 Wednesday 8 July

10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01) 11.00 – 12.10 Keynote: Carolyn Dinshaw Green is the New Black: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making Chair: Louise D’Arcens (Building 20 Theatre 1) 12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01) AUHE MEETING 12.30 – 1.00 Building 20 Theatre 5

Session 4: 1.00 – 2.00 4A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (2) George Mouratidis, ‘“Variations on a Generation”: Re-crossing the Mutable “Textual Field” of “Beat”’ Sarah-Jane Burton, ‘The Boston Trio: Reassessing Robert Lowell’s Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton’s Interconnectedness’ Chair: Anne Collett

4B Building 20 Theatre 3: Reading Ika Willis, ‘Text, Context, Intertext, Hypertext: The Networked Object of Literary Study’ Lydia Wevers, ‘Bad Taste’ Chair: Julieanne Lamond

4C Building 20 Theatre 4: Nineteenth-Century Australia Sarah Comyn, ‘Pedagogy in the Colonies’ Deborah Pike, ‘Sovereignty and Transnational Subjectivity in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony’ Chair: Megan Brown

4D Building 20 Theatre 5: Invisible Threads: Pacific Links with Australia Alice te Punga Somerville, ‘Ahitereiria: Midcentury Maori eyes on Australia in Te Ao Hou (1952-75)’ Karin Speedy, ‘Networks of Silence from Australia through the Pacific and across the Indian Ocean: Unravelling the Threads of Early Blackbirding Narratives’ Chair: Shayne Kearney 4E Building 19 Room 1001: Teaching (1): Networking for Reading Resilience Tully Barnett and Anna Poletti, ‘Networking for Reading Resilience’ – Panel discussion Chair: Jude Seaboyer

4F Building 19 Room 1002: Spatiality (2) James McGregor, ‘Fiction for Geography: A Reading of Postwar Melbourne Novels through the Prism of “Literary Geography”’ Ari Mattes, ‘Antipodean Dream, Antipodean Nightmare: Spatial Ideologies in and Cinema’ Chair: Toby Davidson

4G Building 19 Room 1003: Theorising Indigenous Writing Brenda Machosky, ‘Resisting Aesthetics: New Ways of Theorizing Contemporary Indigenous Literature’ Benjamin Miller, ‘The Transnational Turn in Indigenous Literary Studies’ Chair: Sumedha Iyer

4H Building 19 Room 1004: Orientalism Dvir Abramovich, ‘Israelis and Arabs in Amos Oz’s Early Fiction: An Ambivalent Relationship, but also the Garden of Eden’ Huang Zhong and Wenche Ommundsen, ‘Opium Smokers and Polygamists Beware: The First Chinese Australian Novel as Cautionary Tale’ Chair: Antonina Harbus As at 2 July 2015

Wednesday 8 July Session 5: 2.10 – 3.10

5A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (3) Lindsay Tuggle, ‘“Phantoms of Countless Lost”: The Nostalgia of Absent Limbs in Walt Whitman’s War Poetry’ Ling Hoi Ching (Belle), ‘The Poetics of Food in Contemporary Poetry’ Chair: Natalie Seger

5B Building 20 Theatre 3: Sumedha Iyer, ‘Forming a Philosophy of Place: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book Adelle Sefton-Rowston, ‘Notworking: Reconciliation and Literary Networks in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book’ Chair: Anne Brewster 5C Building 20 Theatre 4: Emotion and Narration Antonina Harbus, ‘Emotion and Narration in Austen’s Text Worlds’ Pip Newling, ‘Ceding Power on the Page: Memoir as a Recuperative Act’ Chair: Guy Davidson 5D Building 20 Theatre 5: Literature and Science Anna Wallace, ‘Interactions of Science and Literature in Anglo-Saxon Poetry’ Alan Salter, ‘The Clinical Anecdote as Sceptical Form’ Chair: Judy Stove 5E Building 19 Room 1001: Teaching (2) Judith Seaboyer, ‘Feedback-rich Online Quizzes for Better Student Reading’ Jill Ireland, ‘Teachers Resisting Resistant Readings’ Chair: Tully Barnett 5F Building 19 Room 1002: Spatiality (3) Kieran Dolin, ‘Writing in the Domains of the Law’ Toby Davidson, Pixelated Networks of Bronze and Stone: Digitally Mapping Commemorative Sites of Oz Lit in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra Chair: Tony Hughes D’Aeth 5G Building 19 Room 1003: South American Networks William J. Cheng, ‘The Torn Reality of Peruvian Society in Gutiérrez’s The Violence of Time’ Ian Campbell, ‘Australian Post-Nerudaism?’ Chair: Mario Daniel Martín

3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Building 24 Room G01)

AULLA AGM AAL AGM ASAL AGM 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 Theatre 2 Building 20 Theatre 3 Building 20 Theatre 4

As at 2 July 2015 Thursday 9 July Session 6: 9.00 – 10.30

6A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (4) Jill Jones, ‘Reformance: The Shifty Poem’ Robert Wood, ‘Relational Networks: Towards a Sociological Reading of Poetry Performance’ Bridget Vincent, ‘Speaking in Public: Civic Poets and the Civic Humanities’ Chair: Lachlan Brown 6B Building 20 Theatre 3: Iran Sanaz Fotouhi, ‘A Glimpse at Diasporic Iranian Literature in English in Australia’ Farzaneh Mayabadi, ‘Iranians as Others in Australian Literature’ Laetitia Nanquette, ‘Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Iranian Literary Field’ Chair: Keyvan Allahyari 6C Building 20 Theatre 4: Derrida Stephen Abblitt, ‘Bad Reading: Failure in Derrida’s Reading of Joyce’ Jessica Marian, Philosophy contre Literature: Derrida’s Glas-style Gaby Dixon-Ritchie, ‘Literature and Materiality’ Chair: Karina Quinn 6D Building 20 Theatre 5: Networking Romanticism Peter Otto, ‘Disciplinary Power, Bio Power, and Egalitarian Networks in William Blake and Jean- Jacques Rousseau’ Clara Tuite, ‘Love à la Werther: The Farce Network’ Russell Smith, ‘“They’re only letters”: Textuality and Vitality from Frankenstein to Her’ Chair: Peter Goodall 6E Building 24 Room 203: Past and Present Elizabeth Minchin, ‘Story, Landscape, Memory: The Enduring Power of the Notion of Troy’ Louise D’Arcens, ‘Art, Heritage Industries, and the Question of Nostalgia in Michel Houllebecq’s La Carte et le Territoire’ Rodney Swan, ‘The manuscrit moderne: Realising Tériade’s vision’ Chair: Ika Willis 6F Building 19 Room 1001: Women’s Writing Karen Lamb, ‘Writing the Biography of ’ Georgina Arnott, ‘“A Very Model Student”: Judith Wright’s Undergraduate Journalism’ Alison Moore and Hanh Nguyen, ‘Examining Australian Literature with Australian Linguistic Models’ Chair: Paul Genoni 6G Building 19 Room 1002: Rethinking Literature and Place: Texts, Representation, Materiality Jennifer Hamilton, ‘Sydney: Literature, Place and Geology’ Brigid Magner, ‘From Day Dawn to the Secret Cave: Nan Chauncy’s Literary Landscape’ Emily Potter and Kirsten Seale, ‘Place and the literature-assemblage: Helen Garner, Monkey Grip, Melbourne’s Inner North’ Chair: Elizabeth McMahon 6H Building 19 Room 1003: Networking Indigeneity (1) Kelly Frame, ‘“The Land was a Crumpled Patchwork”: Representations of Australia in the Novels of David Mitchell Emily Finlay, ‘Literary Networks in ’s Benang’ Geoff Davis, ‘Chotro, or Reducing Our Ignorance about Indigenous Communities’ Chair: Brenda Machosky

As at 2 July 2015 Thursday 9 July

10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01) 11.00 – 12.10 Keynote: Rita Felski Attachment Theory Chair: Meaghan Morris (Building 20 Theatre 1) 12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)

Session 7: 1.00 – 2.00 7A Building 24 Room 203: Reviewing Julieanne Lamond and Melinda Harvey, ‘Where Two Points Meet: Book Reviews and the Australian Literary Field’ Jessica White, ‘Reading, Reviewing and the Australian Women Writers Challenge’ Chair: Karen Lamb 7B Building 20 Theatre 2: Nineteenth-Century Networks Jennifer McDonell, ‘Location, Location, Location: London’s Smithfield Markets and the Politics of Sight/Site’ Judy Stove, ‘Zealous Patriots and Friends of Liberty: Chandos Leigh’s Cultural Histories’ Chair: Peter Otto 7C Building 20 Theatre 3: Secrets Nicole Moore, ‘“A recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes”: Redacted affect and the international reach of ASIO’s cultural Cold War’ Michael Richardson, ‘Literary Hacks: Secrets, Networks and Abstractions in Thomas Pynchon and Haruki Murukami Chair: Jasna Novaković 7D Building 20 Theatre 4: Law Sarah Ailwood and Maree Sainsbury, ‘Fraudsters, Corrupt or Just Plain Muppets? (Mis)uses of Early Australian Copyright Law’ Diana Louis Shahinyan, ‘Reading the Nation: Tracing the Networks of Law and Literature’ Chair: Kieran Dolin 7E Building 20 Theatre 5: Contesting Identity Christian Griffiths, ‘Tracing the Literary Aspects of Social Networks and Identity in Wentworth’ Jonathan Dunk, ‘‘I am all that I see’: Vision, Wounds, and Atonement in and J.M. Coetzee’ Chair: Sue Kossew 7F Building 19 Room 1001: Tsiolkas Danny Anwar, ‘A Virus from Utopia in ’ Dead Europe Jessica Gildersleeve, ‘Christos Tsiolkas and the Modernist Net’ Chair: Andrew McCann 7G Building 19 Room 1002: Disciplinary History (1) Peter Goodall, ‘The Learned Society and its Journal: Is This Still a Viable Literary Network in Australia?’ Will Christie, ‘Literary Lectures in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Notes towards the Evolution of the Discipline’ Chair: Geoff Davis 7H Building 19 Room 1003: Networking Indigeneity (2) Mridula Chakraborty, ‘To Travel or Not to Travel: Australian Literatures in the World’ Helen Gilbert, ‘Diplomacy at Large: Trans-Indigenous Networks and the European Festival Circuit’ Chair: Michael Griffiths

As at 2 July 2015

Thursday 9 July Session 8 2.10 – 3.10 8A Building 24 Room 203 Publishing (2) Phillip Edmonds, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Creative Writing and Academic Publishing’ Jan Zwar, ‘“It feels like much more of a global community”: Australian Authors on Their Peers, Readers, and the Changing Book Publishing Industry’ Chair: Roanna Gonsalves

8B Building 20 Theatre 2: Elegy Jonathan Zapasnik, ‘Affective Witnessing in Timothy Conigrave’s Holding the Man Hannah Schürholz, ‘On the third day he took me to the river…’: Exploring the cultural trajectory of water, gender and death in popular Australian texts’ Chair: Tanya Thaweeskulchai

8C Building 20 Theatre 3: Gender and Canon Jasna Novaković, ‘The Critic’s Starting Point is the Playtext, not the Performance’ Natalie Day, ‘Laura Trevelyan’s Ascendancy in White’s Voss’ Chair: Nicole Moore

8D Building 20 Theatre 4: Global/Local Sneja Gunew, ‘Written Accents: Anglofono (αγγλόφωνο/Anglophone) Australian Literature’s Multi- lingualism and Multi-cultures’ Michael Griffiths, ‘Metalepsis and Inquiry in Short Fictions of Globalization’ Chair: Wenche Ommundsen

8E Building 20 Theatre 5: Expatriate Networks Lucy Sussex, ‘The Perils of Talking to Journalists: How Expatriate Gossip Sundered Fergus Hume and the Hansom Cab Publishing Company’ Paul Eggert, ‘The Anglo-Australian Network in 1890s London, Francis Adams and Henry Lawson: Whose Bushman Chair: Roger Osborne

8F Building 19 Room 1001: Colonialism Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, ‘Cooper, Cather, Prichard, Spy: Settler Colonialism as a Literary Network’ James Bedford, ‘Novels about the Past: A Brief Inquiry into the Rise of Literary Historical Fiction’ Chair: Gareth Griffiths

8G Building 19 Room 1002: Disciplinary History (2) Ralph Spaulding, ‘Tasmania’s William Henry Williams’ Sarah Balkin, ‘Theatre Criticism in the Baillieu Library: Professor Ernest Scott and Obsolescent Media’ Chair: Philip Butterss

3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Building 24 Room G01) 3.30 – 5.00 Panel: Australia’s Literary Culture and the Australian Book Industry (Building 20 Theatre 1) Jill Eddington, Director of Literature at the Australia Council of the Arts Linsay Knight, expert in children’s literature/co-founder, Pitt Street Poetry Angelo Loukakis, Executive Director, Australian Society of Authors David Throsby, Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Macquarie University Charlotte Wood, Chair of Arts Practice, Literature, Australia Council for the Arts Chair: Jan Zwar, postdoctoral fellow, Macquarie University

As at 2 July 2015 Friday 10 July Session 9: 9.00 – 10.30

9A Building 24 Room 203: Victorian Madness Megan Brown, ‘Sensational Insanity’ Meg Tasker, ‘(Writers’) Wives Go Mad in England’ Lucy Sussex, ‘Fergus Hume’s Father’s Asylum in New Zealand’ Chair: Katie Hansord 9B Building 20 Theatre 2: Spain Michael Jacklin, ‘El Expreso and Australian Migrant Writing in Spanish’ Karen Daly, ‘Spanish Accounts of Pacific Exploration, A Lesser-Known Story’ Catherine Seaton, ‘The Newspaper Crónicas of Salvador Torrents: Interconnections with a Global Readership’ Chair: Marie Rose B. Arong 9C Building 20 Theatre 3: Networking Literature Claire Jansen, ‘Crowdfunding New Literary Networks’ Simone Murray, ‘Live and Local: Digital Networks and Literary Festivals’ Andrew McCann, ‘Das richtige Leben im falschen: Marketing, Media and their Discontents’ Chair: Katherine Bode 9D Building 20 Theatre 4: Animals Running through Japanese Literature Tomoko Aoyama, ‘Ishii Momoko’s Cat from the Hills: Legacies and Inspirations’ Lucy Fraser, ‘The Animal-Human Connection in Retellings of The Eight Dog Chronicles’ Barbara Hartley, ‘Inquisitive Squirrels and Troublesome Mice: Animals in Takeda Taijun’s Fuji’ Chair: Jennifer McDonell 9E Building 20 Theatre 5: Author Networks Sarah Dowling, ‘Reading Net/Works’ Luke Johnson, ‘The Author is an Autre’ Nick Lord, ‘Mapping Paul Auster’s Networks’ Chair: Chris Danta 9F Building 19 Room 1001: Story-telling Roxanne Bodsworth, ‘Whose Story Is It? Moral and Legal Issues Associated with Cultural Appropriation for Individual Creativity Rachel Franks and Richard Neville, ‘Partner Storyteller and Enriching Well of Resources’ Jeanine Leane, ‘Networks of Survival and Continuance’ Chair: Evelyn Araluen Corr

9G Building 19 Room 1002: Theatre Kerry Kilner, ‘Published, Unpublished, Performed, and Archived: Theatre Works in AustLit’ Julian Croft, ‘Catherine Shepherd (1902–1976) Anne Pender, ‘Sumner Locke Elliott’s Invisible Circus: Theatrical and Digital Networks’ Chair: Helen Gilbert

10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01) 11.00 – 12.10 Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture: Susan K. Martin Outback Fever: The Romance of Rural and National Literary Identity in a Networked World Chair: Leigh Dale (Building 20 Theatre 1)

12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)

As at 2 July 2015 Friday 10 July Session 10: 1.00 – 2.00

10A Building 24 Room 203: Philippines Marie Rose B. Arong, ‘Maria Clara No More: Resisting the Myth of the Postcolonial/Feminine Enigma in Kerima Polotan’s and Edith Tiempo’s Novels’ Emily Yu Zong, ‘Disturbance of the White Man: Oriental Quests in Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman’ Chair: Robyn Morris

10B Building 20 Theatre 2: Diaspora (1) Jessica Trevitt, ‘Vietnamese Diasporic Literature in Translation: An Alternative Approach to Interdisciplinary Dialogue’ Annee Lawrence, ‘Kartini and Miles Franklin: Reading Indonesia and Australia Side by Side’ Chair: Michael Jacklin

10C Building 20 Theatre 3: Philosophy Michael Campbell, ‘Fictionality, Experientiality and Narrativity in Descartes’s Meditations’ Don Johnston, ‘The Inherent Interdisciplinarity of a Postcolonial Symptomatological Methodology’ Chair: Jessica Marian

10D Building 20 Theatre 4: Autobiography/Biography Keyvan Allahyari, ‘Autobiography as Subversive Literariness in ’s Amnesia’ Mario Daniel Martín, ‘Migration as Suicide and Self-Parody’ Chair: Anne Pender

10E Building 20 Theatre 5: Digital Katherine Bode, ‘Networks of Literary Works’ Tully Barnett, ‘Australian Literature in Mass Digitization Projects’ Chair: Anna Poletti

10F Building 19 Room 1001: Ghosts/Gothic (1) Michael Ellis, ‘ and the Irish Big House Tradition’ Suzette Mayr, ‘The Sentient House in Picnic at Hanging Rock’ Chair: Jessica Gildersleeve

10G Building 19 Room 1002: Literary Prizes Natalie Kon-yu, ‘“Beyond the Measure of Men”: Gender Bias in Literary Prize Culture’ Mostafa Azizpour, ‘Manumission or Helotry? Man Booker and the Politics of the Prize’ Chair: Pip Newling

10H Building 19 Room 1003: Writing and Reputation Anthea Taylor, ‘Celebrity and the Cultural Reverberations of the “Feminist Blockbuster”’ Moya Costello, ‘, his contemporaries, and me: this réseau has holes’ Chair: Catherine Noske

As at 2 July 2015 Friday 10 July Session 11: 2.10 – 3.10 11A Building 24 Room 203: Borders Felicity Castagna, ‘Literature and Invasion’ Evelyn Araluen Corr, ‘Narrating Borders: Fences, Boundaries, and Title in Aboriginal Writing’ Chair: Russell Smith

11B Building 20 Theatre 2: Diaspora (2) Robyn Morris, ‘Diasporic Asian Trauma Narratives: Remembering and Commemorating Genocide’ Beibei Chen, ‘Transgenerational Memory and Second-generation Identity Politics in Behind the Moon’ Chair: Jessica Trevitt

11C Building 20 Theatre 3: Philosophy (2) Damien Marwood, ‘The Fragment and the Dialogue: Obscurity, Irony, and Education [Bildung] via Indirect Communication in the Literary Philosophy of Friedrich Schlegel Catherine Noske, ‘Existential Pluralism: Applications of Ontological Philosophy in Literary Studies’ Chair: Ned Curthoys

11D Building 20 Theatre 4: Happiness Nerida Wayland, ‘Happy are the Wretched: Alternate Views of Happiness in Comedic Young Adult Fiction’ Juliane Roemhild, ‘“Smiles all round”: The Happy Ending and the “Eudaimonic Turn’” Chair: Tomoko Aoyama

11E Building 20 Theatre 5: Stead Helen Groth, ‘Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney and Acoustic Networks’ Brigid Rooney, ‘“Post Stephenson, Pre Ford”: Interwar Suburbia in Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney and Harford’s The Invaluable Mystery’ Chair: Susan Sheridan

11F Building 19 Room 1001: Ghosts/Gothic (2) Ben Eldridge, ‘Dramatising Reliability in Chloe Hooper’s The Engagement’ Victoria Reeve, ‘Indigeneity, Ethnicity, Citizenship, Diaspora AND the Gothic: Diasporic ‘hauntings in McFarlane’s The Night Guest’ Chair: Suzette Mayr

11G Building 19 Room 1002: Queer/Bodies Shaun Bell, ‘Origins and Queer Childhood in the Fiction of Sumner Locke Elliott Karina Quinn, ‘Écriture matière: A Text That Matters’ Chair: Danny Anwar

3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Building 24 Room G01) 3.30 – 5.00 Literary Studies in Australia: Structures and Futures Building 20 Theatre 1 Chair: Professor Helen Groth, University of New South Wales Stephen Slemon, Professor of English, University of Alberta, former President of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Heather Murray, Professor of English, Toronto University, former President of ACCUTE Anthony Uhlmann, President, Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) Brigitta Olubas, President, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Tom Clark, President, Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) Chris Danta, President, Australasian Association for Literature (AAL) 7 pm: Convention Dinner Harbourfront Restaurant, 2 Endeavour Drive, Wollongong [Harbour]. Tel (02) 4227 2999 As at 2 July 2015

Saturday 11 July Session 12: 9.30 – 11.00

12A Building 20 Theatre 2: Crime Ryan Palmer, ‘Environmental Justice and the Ecology of Noir’ Helen Tiffin, ‘Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue and Verissimo’s Borges and the Eternal Orangutangs Elise Payne, ‘Gender, Supporting Characters and Reading Villany in Patricia Cornwell’s Fiction’ Chair: Lucy Sussex 12B: Building 20 Theatre 3: The Sacred Lyn McCredden, ‘Literary Studies and the Sacred’ Natalie Seger, ‘Michael Heald, Judith Beveridge, and the Poetics of Sacred Space across Australia and India’ Lachlan Brown, ‘Tracking the Urban Sacred in Three Longer Poems’ [Jones, Hart and Frater] Chair: Sarah Dowling 12C Building 20 Theatre 4: Network and Narrative Gavin Smith, ‘The Cultural Resonances of Henry Lawson and Robert Frost’ Jenn Phillips, ‘Narrative Voice and the Revelation of Character in Sonya Hartnett’s Surrender and Kalinda Ashton’s The Danger Game’ Rebecca Cross, ‘The effect of the network of small moments in Gretchen Shirm’s Having Cried Wolf’ Chair: Nathan Garvey 12D Building 20 Theatre 5: Coterie Brigitta Olubas, ‘Translation, Cosmopolitan High Culture and the Literary Traffic of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller’ Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni, ‘Four Birds on the Expat Wire: George, Charmian, and “Birm” … (and a Bit of Leonard)’ Guy Davidson, ‘Myra Breckenbridge and the Networks of Camp’ Chair: Clara Tuite 12E Building 20 Theatre 1: Women and Audience Suzanne Srdarov, ‘‘‘Pens and Prejudice”: Examining Class-based Cultural Attitudes That Render Invisible Some Women Readers and Writers’ Imogen Mathew, ‘Reader Response to Indigenous Australian Chick Lit’ Maggie Nolan and Janeese Henaway, ‘Connecting with Culture through Reading: The Murri Book Club’ Chair: Jeanine Leane

11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea (Building 20 Foyer)

As at 2 July 2015 Saturday 11 July Session 13: 11.30 – 12.30

13A Building 20 Theatre 1: Convicts Nathan Garvey, ‘Testimony, Reform Networks, and the Literary Invention of the ‘Convict System’’ Daniel Hempel, ‘Prison Continent or Antipodean Utopia? Clash of Aesthetics in Early Visions of Australia’ Chair: Paul Genoni

13B Building 20 Theatre 2: Animal/Posthuman Chris Danta, ‘Stevenson’s Ants: On Species Thinking in Literature’ Adam Gall, ‘Cameron Conway’s Posthumanitarian Politics’ Chair: Helen Tiffin

13C: Building 20 Theatre 3: Nation James Dahlstrom, ‘Peter Carey’s Challenge to a “Christian” Australia’ Natalie Pirotta, ‘The Vexed Issue of Landscape and Place-making in Australia: Making Peace with Our Colonial Heritage’ Chair: Toby Davidson

13D Building 20 Theatre 4: Theorizing Memory Ned Curthoys, ‘The Perpetrator as Witness: The Perpetrator Narrator’s Challenge to the “Symbolic Geography of Evil”’ Magdalena Zolkos, ‘Memory Objects: Posthumanist Critique of Historical Memory in Jaume Cabré’s Confessions’ Chair: Tanya Dalziell

13E Building 20 Theatre 5: Pacific Charles Dawson, ‘Fluid Networks: Ecopoetics, Deep Metaphor and a River Given Standing’ Shayne Kearney, ‘David Malo and the Conundrum of Christian Conversion’ Chair: Maggie Nolan

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (Building 20 Foyer) then … going home!

Thank you for coming to Wollongong Travel safely on your journey home

With special thanks to: the indefatigable Robyn Morris for overseeing catering; the formidable Luanne Freeman for overseeing logistics, along with Laura Potter (web) and Chiara Rigoni; Leonie Clement and Hayley de Rooy for life-saving foresight; Amanda Lawson as Dean for financial support; Sarah Miller as Head of School and Guy Davidson as Head of English and Writing for promotion and moral support; Alicia Gaffney as student overseer and Anne Collett as convenor of student participation; Pip Newling for copy editing; Wendy, Sarah and Hanna for “above and beyond” in catering; Lydia McDonnell for photography; Frances Cortiana for getting books; our keynotes and special guests for travelling long distances and being so professional, the three fantastic presidents, Tom Clark (AULLA), Chris Danta (AAL) and Brigitta Olubas (ASAL), and their executives, for enabling this to happen; Anne Collett, Liz McMahon, Nicole Moore, Heather Murray, Laetitia Nanquette, Stephen Slemon, Anthony Uhlmann, Louise D’Arcens and Kate Noske for presenting at workshops, and finally, members of the English and Writing Program at UoW: Melissa Boyde, Cathy Cole, Anne Collett, Shady Cosgrove, Timothy Daly, Louise D’Arcens, Debra Dudek, Mike Griffiths, Michael Jacklin, Robyn Morris, Wenche Ommundsen, Alan Wearne and Ika Willis.

As at 2 July 2015