My Secret Favourite

Under Con­struc­tion: Gate­ways and Walls

“Aus­trali­an con­vict nov­els” is in synch with my cur­rent big research pro­ject,  a com­par­at­ive genre study of all 40something Aus­trali­an con­vict nov­els to date. Which is one of the reas­ons why it has been placed at level III of the B.A. mod­ules… Obvi­ously, the focus with­in this cat­egory will be on the imme­di­ate nov­els we will be read­ing, but as I’m going to present a paper on Tas­mania in con­vict nov­els at this year’s Tri­an­nu­al con­fer­ence of the EACLALS in Istan­bul http://www.eaclals2011.boun.edu.tr/ you can expect a great deal of activ­ity. Hope­fully, I will get to present a second paper along the lines of a more the­or­et­ic­al genre dis­cus­sion at this year’s GNEL con­fer­ence in Han­over http://www.gnel2011.uni-hannover.de/ though I haven’t heard from these guys yet. I’ll keep you posted.