ABOUT ASLEC-ANZ
We are delighted
to announce the formation of the Australia-New Zealand chapter of the
Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (ASLEC-ANZ),
and we are now seeking applications for membership. For a membership form
in word format, click here.
The purpose
of ASLEC-ANZ is to share information and ideas-and to encourage writing
and discussion-about literature and the environment, and the relationship
between them. ASLEC-ANZ hopes to encourage environmentally oriented, nature-literate,
place-based writing in Australia and New Zealand; and to nurture ecologically
informed scholarship of literature and other cultural creations.
Consistent
with this purpose, the activities of ASLEC-ANZ will include the following:
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Holding
an ASLEC-ANZ conference every two years.
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Encouraging
and facilitating occasional gatherings of ALSEC-ANZ members for fellowship
and the advancement of ASLEC-ANZ's purpose.
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Encouragement
of, arrangement for, and scheduling of lectures, discussions, panels,
and other presentations at scholarly conferences sponsored by ASLEC-ANZ
or by other scholarly organisations, colloquia and literary festivals
that allow ASLEC-ANZ participation in programming.
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Publication
of an official biannual (twice yearly) newsletter to be distributed
electronically to all members.
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Encouragement
of the publication of works of ecocriticism and ecological literature,
especially by members, in journals and magazines in Australia, New
Zealand and elsewhere.
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Development
and maintenance of an ASLEC-ANZ website, to help members keep in touch
with others' new work and thinking; to encourage online discussion.
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Preparation
and maintenance of a directory of ASLEC-ANZ members.
ASLEC-ANZ Office
Bearers 2009
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CA Cranston, President
Dr CA. Cranston is co-editor of The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts
and their Writers
(Rodopi 2007) and of a place-based collection Along These Lines: From
Trowenna to Tasmania
(Cornford 2000). She spent eighteen years as a military brat in occupied
territories; migrated
three times to two different countries, and lives now on an almost
self-sufficient micro 'farm',
in Tasmania, where she taught at the University for seventeen years. She
is on the Advisory
Board of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism. Her qualifications are in
literature (University of
Tasmania), and media (University of Texas).
Email: CA.Cranston@utas.edu.au
Website: www.ca-cranston.com
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Dr
Deborah Bird Rose, Vice President (Australia)
Deborah Bird Rose is the author of numerous prize-winning books. She is Professor of Social Inclusion at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research engages dialogically with Indigenous Australians, and is focused on entwined social and ecological justice. She has just completed a book on extinctions and the moral imagination, entitled Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction.
Email: Deborah.Rose@mq.edu.au |
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Dr
Charles Dawson, Vice President (New Zealand)
Charles
Dawson lives in Wellington, New Zealand, nestled in the big hills
and dervish winds of his favourite harbour city. His interest in
ASLE was sparked by a letter from Glen Love in the early 1990s;
at the close of that decade Professor Love was external examiner
for Charles' doctoral dissertation "Writing the Memory of Rivers."
Charles continues to be fascinated by human responses to rivers,
and the metaphorical response to hydroelectric projects. His reviews
have appeared in BC Studies, Canadian Literature and Takahe.
24 Spencer
St Crofton Downs Wellington 6035 NZ
Email: cmj{at}actrix.co.nz |
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Kate Rigby, Immediate Past President
Kate is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her most recent book is Topographies of the Sacred (2004), an ecocritical study of European Romantic-era philosophies and aesthetics of nature and place. She is co-editor of the ecological humanities journal, Philosophy Activism Nature, and was the founding President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (Australia-New Zealand).
Email: Kate.Rigby@monash.edu
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Neale Macdonald, Newsletter Editor and Communications Representative
Neale Macdonald is currently undertaking a PhD in the Department of English at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Neale is originally from Ottawa, Canada where she completed her MA at Carleton University. She is Program Manager for the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago, and recently taught a humanities elective about literature and the environment to third year medical students. Members are invited to email their news to Neale at:
Email: nealemacdonald@yahoo.ca |
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Barbara Holloway, Secretary/Treasurer
Barbara Holloway holds a PhD in literature and communications studies. Her experimental essays have been published in journals and books over the last decade. She combines writing and editing with 'minding' (in every sense) 27 hectares of callitris, rock, wire-grass and echidnas in NSW. Her PhD was on how Europeans formed initial relationships with place in Australia. She has taught at the University of New England and at The Australian National University, and was Assistant Editor to Canberra Anthropology in the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies. She is currently honing her chainsaw skills.
Email: barbara.holloway@bigpond.com
ASLEC-ANZ
PO Box 483,
Dickson, ACT 2602
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Tim Chandler, Student Representative
Tim Chandler grew up in Currumbin Valley in the south-eastern Queensland bioregion. He studied Literature, Latin and Ecology at the University of Queensland and is currently undertaking a Master of Arts in critical theory at Monash University in Melbourne. His current research is on the German ecophenomenologist Gernot Böhme and Vergil's Eclogues. Tim has edited and written for a variety of publications.
Email: tschandler@gmail.com
Tim Chandler
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Monash University, Clayton campus
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Advisory Board
Bruce Bennett (Australian Literature)
Ruth Blair (Ecocriticism)
Veronica Brady (Australian Literature)
Robert Gray (Poetry and Poetics
Tom Griffiths (Environmental History)
Norm Habel (Ecotheology and Biblical Studies)
Martin Harrison (Poetry and Poetics)
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Pete Hay (Ecopolitics and Literature of Place)
Freya Mathews (Ecophilosophy and Ontopoetics)
Libby Robin (Global History and History of Science in Australia)
Scott Slovic (Ecocriticism)
Mark Tredinnick (Ecocriticism and Nature Writing)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Poetry, Poetics and Australian Literature)
Linda Williams (Art History, Zoocriticism and Social Theory) |
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