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The Australian Literature Resource
Project Leaders: Professor Van Ikin, Dr Toni Johnson-Woods, Dr Kim Wilkins
Project Managers: Kerry Kilner, Carol Wical
Contact: popularfictions@austlit.edu.au
Commenced: 2010
Project Status: Active
This project is a substantial study of Australian popular fiction, undertaken with the support of ARC LIEF funding. The study is generating large amounts of bibliographical, biographical, and historical data on the works, authors, and publishers of genre publications, thereby redressing the lack of scholarly resources for Australian speculative fiction.
The research - which defines speculative fiction as including science fiction, horror, and fantasy - focuses on novel-length fiction for adults. SpecUlations is concerned with:
- Mapping horror, fantasy, and science-fiction publication in Australia from early and imported influences to the contemporary
- Creating a searchable corpus for text mining as well as providing high quality digital reproductions of rare and early works
- Engaging with interested parties across the whole community.
- Ensure the inclusion of bibliographic records for Australian science fiction, horror, and fantasy
- Research and note the activities of publishers engaged with these genres
- Establish and note relationships between publishers, authors, scholars, and critics.
Professor Van Ikin, Dr Toni Johnson-Woods, Dr Kim Wilkins, Dr Clay Djubal, Jake Milroy, Charles McLaughlin, Dr Catriona Mills.