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RESEARCH JUNCTION

Build your research question ... Find your community or found one ... Design your project

The Research Junction offers suggestions for projects investigating under-explored areas of Australian cultural heritage as indicated by search results from the AustLit database.

If the AustLit Research & Publications team can help with devising, designing, or participating in a research project please contact Kerry Kilner.


POTENTIAL STUDY AREAS

Upcoming Centenaries

Gallipoli and ANZAC

List of authors born 1910-1915

List of women authors born 1910-1915

List of expatriate women authors born 1910-1915

List of films produced 1910-1915

Queer Literature (Data from the AustLit keyword search 'lesbian*')

Search for Buried Treasure

Work in the National Library's digitised Australian newspapers collection strongly suggests that much of the detail of Australia's publishing history and the careers of Australian writers is still hidden away in magazines and journals.

Although various projects under the Australian Book History and Print Culture Research Community have resulted in the indexing of journals and magazines, AustLit data for long-running influential works such as The Bulletin remains incomplete or inaccurately represented.

Indexing runs of journals or magazines can give unique insight into literary and societal trends and attitudes.

Environmental Conservation

From the dry doggerel 'An Appele to Yung Australyer' in 1863 through the life work of Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Tony Park's adventure novel The Delta (2010) featuring mercenary-turned-'eco-commando' Sonja Kurtz, Australia's literary obsession with the environment strays far and wide from the classic concerns of 'drought and flooding rain'.

International Connections

War Literature (what is it good for?)

Literature on the Web

Timeline cross section (websites on AustLit - poets, periodicals, publishers etc)

Check our Research Communities for ideas:
Mine data, search cross-corpus

Mine our data using the Guided and Advanced search tools. Search across corpora using the Full-Text search or cast your net wider using the Federated search beta being developed under the Aus-e-Lit project.

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