AustLit

In 1995 Latrobe University won a grant from the AVCC Electronic Publishing Working Group to develop 'an electronic journal in the humanities, spanning a range of disciplines and genres'. Modelled on the Stanford Humanities Review, the first issue of the Australian Humanities Review became available online in April 1996.

Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal founded by Cassandra Pybus. It is published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks. Edited by Elizabeth McMahon since 1998 with assistance from an Editorial Board, AHR has also received funding from the Australia Council and the Cultural Activities Committee of the University of Tasmania.

Australian Humanities Review commisions 'target articles' for each issue and also presents excerpts from articles previously published elsewhere. In addition the electronic journal provides an interactive discussion forum where writers can post short responses to articles and reviews. Each issue is accessible through an online archive which allows users to browse the content by issue or subject matter.

The Australian Humanities Review attracts contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including history, cultural studies and literary studies, facilitating an ongoing discussion on developments in Australian culture as they occur.

'The Centre for Indigenous Story is a virtual site for Aboriginal interaction. It is our opportunity to gather, (re)generate, and host our stories, and thus our knowledges, through spoken word, in music, in film, in visual arts, writing, and all dynamic multimedia forms. Indigenous knowledges in the digital age demand we tell our many stories in many ways. They demand others adopt new lenses for seeing us, and that we innovate our curation in sharing our layered histories, knowledges, and stories.'

'The Sunlit Zone, the major project of my PhD thesis, is a verse novel about trauma and transformation. The work is concerned with the ways in which transformation might occur at the site of "the wound" and with how the journey of protagonist, North, shifts from a state of trauma into the sunlit zone that the novel's title suggests.

'This novel looks specifically at thresholds between loss, memory, hybridity and mourning. North's twin sister, Finn, is a hybrid creature who inclines always towards the sea. The Sunlit Zone is particularly concerned with loss on both a micro level (via the childhood trauma that tracks North into adulthood) and a macro level (via the impact of new technology on the 21st century).

'Set in Melbourne in 2040, the narrative moves between past and present in order to memorialise trauma and, in doing so, locate its redemption.'

'Writing/ the Wound consists of three essays, loosely linked, which explore the concerns of The Sunlit Zone in the light of theoretical critique. It aims to create a dialogue between essays and verse novel in order to examine the question: what is the relationship between trauma, transformation and writing? The first two essays critique novels ... [more]that influenced The Sunlit Zone. Hybrid Bodies: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake explores the trauma of new technology, drawing on Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection in Powers of Horror Broken Bodies: Tim Winton's Dirt Music looks at grief, spiritual transformation and road trauma, using Jacques Derrida's The Work Mourning. The third essay, "Concealed Bodies: Writing/ the Wound" incorporates memoir, photographs and critique. Drawing in particular on Roland Barthes' critique of photographs in Camera Lucida, it looks at how memory pierces the skin of The Sunlit Zone and contributes to its central concerns. ( http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37379731)

Before 1982, no journal devoted to the study of Australian drama was available and very few established journals provided space for serious discussion. In response to this situation, Richard Fotheringham, Veronica Kelly and Jeremy Ridgman produced the first issue of Australasian Drama Studies in October 1982.

Aiming to 'chart all the patterns of academic research and theatrical practice in Australia and New Zealand', the editors of Australasian Drama Studies have encouraged a wide variety of research areas. Following the belief that 'people cannot know what they are capable of if they forget what they were able to do in the past', many articles on the history of theatre in Australia and New Zealand have been published. In addition Australasian Drama Studies has published articles on performance studies in Australia, circus, puppetry, Aboriginal performance, women's theatre, gay, lesbian and queer theatre, community theatre, interculturalism and dance and physical theatre.

Despite the journal's title, articles and special issues have focused on the dramatic traditions of other countries and regions such as Ireland, Canada and South East Asia. Contributors also are drawn from many overseas countries. In addition to academic articles, Australasian Drama Studies regularly publishes contributions from the profession in the form of speeches, interviews and roundtable discussions, asserting itself as the voice of theatre studies in Australia.

Since 2001, the journal has been sponsored by the Australasian Drama Studies Association, providing a secure foundation on which to develop future research.

The Looking Glass is an online, open access journal aimed at academics, librarians and teachers interested in children's literature.

Articles are published in a range of formats and styles, from the formally academic (peer-reviewed), through more general analysis and commentary, to light and quirky observations. The key sections are: Alice's Academy - formal academic papers; Emerging Voices - academic papers from previously unpublished critics and students; Jabberwocky - more general commentary; Picture Window - articles dealing specifically with illustration and presentation; Curiouser and Curiouser - light and quirky pieces In addition, conference announcements, paper calls and similar notices may also be publicised in The Caucus Race.