The Australian Literature Resource

A research environment for scholars of Australia's story making cultures.
RESEARCH COMMUNITIES
Our Research Communities provide access to project outcomes including peer-reviewed articles, full-text primary and secondary sources, datasets, biographies and bibliographies, and visualisations.
For more research suggestions go to the Research Junction
The The Australian Book History and Print Culture Research Community houses and encourages research that examines the composition, publication, distribution, and reading in Australian literary, print, and storytelling cultures.
America Publishes Australia explores the relationship between the United States and Australia through the lens of the process of American publication of Australian works.
Australian Magazines maps the history, span, editorship and content of one hundred twentieth-century Australian periodicals and newspapers. The accumulated data traces the activities and achievements, career fluctuations, and relationships that served as agents for change in the growth and recognition of Australia's literary and artistic culture.
The Australian Pulp Industry project supplies a comprehensive, illustrated dataset of biographical and bibliographic details on more than one hundred authors, their works, and the cover art from more than 5,000 books, with a specific focus on internationally successful authors Alan Yates (who wrote as 'Carter Brown'), 'Larry Kent' (the pseudonym used for various Cleveland authors), and 'Marshall Grover' (a writing name used by Leonard Frank Meares). It also includes biographical and bibliographical data on the cover artists of this genre.
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Banned in Australia is a bibliography of publications that were prohibited imports in Australia from 1901 to 1973. Banned in Australia makes this record of literary censorship available to the Australian public for the first time. |
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Resourceful Reading re-examines and re-invigorates Australian literary criticism and history by integrating traditional, qualitative approaches to literary studies with empirically rich methodologies, including data-mining and quantitative analysis. |
The broad spectrum of Australian identity narratives and the diversity of ways in which to tell them is reflected and explored in the following Communities:
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BlackWords is a searchable database and a forum for communication. BlackWords provides access to both general and specific information about Indigenous literary cultures and traditions, providing a platform for the investigation and articulation of what Black writing and Indigenous literatures might be. |
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The Australian Children's Literature Research Community is a gateway to information about Australian writing for children and young adults. The foundation for this subset was the incorporation of data from the
Lu Rees Archives. Two subsequent projects build on this foundation: The Victorian Classroom which indexed the Victorian Readers, and the Children's Literature Digital Resource, which focuses on the digitisation of pre-1945 children's literature in both high quality PDF and text-mineable formats.
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The Australian Drama Research Community collates searchable information about published and unpublished Australian drama, articles, reviews and performance reviews, about Australian drama and Australian playwrights. |
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Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' gathers together information on Australian creative writing about or referring to Asia and some Australian critical responses to the literature of Asian countries. |
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The Hidden Treasures of the Mitchell Library dataset collects together a selection of sixty-two enhanced AustLit records for magazines whose contents expose an extraordinary diversity of opinion and commentary on the many activities of domestic, social, cultural, and political life. The aim of this project is to make the extent and coherence of those holdings more visible to researchers. In addition, it may help explore how generalist interpretations of the country's past and the possibilities of its people’s thoughts and actions have been somewhat distorted through reliance on the views of a limited number of magazines.
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Australian Multicultural Writers affords access to information about Australian writers who identify themselves with particular cultural heritages and about their works. |
The Australian Popular Fictions Research Community aims to draw together readers and scholars in the field of popular culture to make AustLit the most comprehensive resource about authors, texts, and the publishing history of Australian popular, pulp (in association with Book History and Print Culture), and genre fiction. . Australian Popular Medievalism and SpecUlations: The Speculative Fictions Research Project have arisen from this Community.
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Australian Popular Medievalism, part of the Popular Fictions Community, gauges the extent and importance of medieval images and ideas in Australian popular fiction. Outcomes to aid future work in this area include a search scope that allows more detailed searches within the data set established by this inquiry. |
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The Australian Popular Theatre Research Community is the gateway to data on variety theatre of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, designed to provide information on a large number of Australian-based stage artists and writers and on the scripts, designers, entrepreneurs, and others in this rich but under-analysed area of popular culture history. Australian popular theatre is increasingly being recognised as a key site for the expression of ideas about Australian people, identities, and behaviour and as the precursor for later modes of entertainment. |
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The Reverse Diaspora project explores the lives and creative work of Australian expatriate writers in Britain since the early nineteenth century. It contests the notion of Australia as a predominantly 'import' culture. |
ScreenLit: The Australian Film and Television Resource provides biographical information on screenwriters and presents critical and historical insights into their works. Details relating to any productions emanating from these scripts are similarly documented in the new 'Film notes' section initiated by this project.
Set to commence in 2011, Window on Australia maps the global movements of Australian literature and the translation of Australian works.
Regional Narratives Research Communities
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South Australian Women Writers collates information about the lives and work of women writers associated with South Australia. |
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Literature of Tasmania gathers together bibliographical information about all aspects of writing about Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania. The dataset contains information about authors who were born in, visited, or have written about Tasmania and includes information about newspapers and journals from the early colonial period (1803-1850).
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The Western Australian Literature dataset is concerned with writers associated with Western Australia and the literature they produce. |
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Windows on Australia aims to advance understanding of Australia’s global role in literary production and clarify the marketability of Australian cultural exports to non-English-speaking countries. By mapping these exchanges, research will inform publishers, literary agents, authors, professional translators, and members of the public about the development and evolution of trends, norms, and perceptions pertaining to Australia's cultural contributions. Windows on Australia considers the translation and reception of Australian literature in various languages. |
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Writing the Tropical North contains data on authors who were born in, lived in, visited, or wrote about areas of Australia north of the Tropic of Capricorn and their works. It also includes information about journalists, columnists, editors, newspapers, periodicals, and associated companies and individuals important to the cultural life of the region. |
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PUBLICATIONS
Publication of full-text, freely available, fully searchable, downloadable, online critical anthologies has begun with The AustLit Anthology of Criticism.
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The Bibliography of Australian Literature is a four-volume print bibliography covering all book-length creative writing by Australian-identified writers from the 1780s to 2000. The content for the Bibliography was compiled by AustLit team members from our partner universities with assistance from the National Library of Australia and the State Libraries around the country. |
HISTORY
The AustLit Research & Publications team was established in 2009. Many of its members, including the director Kerry Kilner, are part of the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at The University of Queensland (UQ EMSAH). Other team members work on projects at partner universities throughout Australia. Many of the projects have been funded through the Australian Research Council, internal university grants, or other funding bodies.
AustLit R&P facilitates continuous enhancement of AustLit data, guided by the chief investigators who lead our projects.
THE RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS TEAM @ UQ EMSAH
- Director ... Kerry Kilner
- Project Manager ... Carol Wical
- Web Designer ... Jonathan Hadwen
- Aus-e-Lit Project Manager ... Dr Roger Osborne
- Senior Researcher ... Amanda Taylor
- Senior Researcher, Popular Fictions, Australian Popular Theatre, and ScreenLit ... Dr Clay Djubal
- Researcher, BlackWords ... Irene Howe
- Researcher, Periodicals ... Robert Thomson
- Copy Editor, Researcher ... Dr Catriona Mills
- Researcher/ Project Officer, Children's Literature Digital Resource ... Dr Michelle Dicinoski






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