Don't say I am not Collegiate... ASAL 2011 this time

Call for papers. Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Range of possible streams:

Call for Papers

Abstracts are invited for submission by Tuesday 1st March 2011.

The following topics are simply suggestions for possible frameworks for conference presentations:

  • Literary demongraphics
  • Institutions of literature
  • ‘Regimes of value’
  • Categories of the ‘literary’
  • Literary production and circulation
  • Readerships
  • Reading practices: making the text meaningful
  • Methodologies
  • Genre
  • Performativity, creativity
  • Teaching practices: secondary and tertiary pedagogies
  • Canonicity, selection, legitimation
  • Literary praxis
  • National curriculum issues
  • Nation, region, world: the ‘place’ of Australian literature
  • Literature and politics, political readings
  • Extreme readings
  • The value of reading ‘emotionally’
  • Literary controversies and debates
  • Literary dispositions
  • Critical distance
  • Passion and structures of feeling
  • Love, hate, indifference: readers, texts and teachers

200 word abstracts should be sent to: asal2011-info@unimelb.edu.au
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Tuesday, 1st March 2011