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CA will be an Honorary Associate at the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during 2009. Career SummaryCA is currently President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment—Australia and New Zealand (ASLE-ANZ), and is on the advisory board of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism. She has served on various panels of Arts Tasmania; and as a judge and director, on the executive of ASAL (the Association for the Study of Australian Literature). CA was a Lecturer at UTAS from 1991-2007. She received an Australia-India Council Fellowship in 2008, and 2009, and was Visiting Professor at the University of Madras, India. During 2006 she was Visiting Professor at the Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; and in 2004, Visiting Professor at the Alps-Adriatic University, Klagenfurt, Austria. She has qualifications in Australian literature and disability (the body and the text) and has taught British and USAmerican literature in traditional and on-line modes. Her current focus is on place-based literature within the framework of ecocriticism (ecology and literature).
Books: 2007 The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers. Intro and co-edited with Robert Zeller, Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Recent Articles and Chapters: 2009 ‘Literary Ecoconsciousness’ in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (eds.) New Delhi: SSS Publications. (379-385). ISBN No. 81-902282-1-0. Recent Academic Papers: 2009 February. Plenary speaker. ‘(Hydro)power and the (de)formation of Identity in the case of Richard Flanagan’, Representations of Region and Nation in Literary and Culture Studies Conference, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Mrs Berenice EastmanHonorary Associate
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Berenice will be an Honorary Associate at the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during the period 2009-2012. Berenice is a life member of The Tasmanian Society of Writers and The Hamilton Society (Australia's oldest literary society) and a regular and respected participant in the school's research seminar program"Removing the Boundaries". Berenice's publications and research include: Nan Chauncy: A Writer's Life, The Friends of Chauncy Vale Inc., Bagdad, Tasmania, pp. 79. ISBN 0-646-38937-8 (2000) Nan Chauncer's Comfort Me with Apples (2000) [Masters Research] Dr Sylvia MartinHonorary Associate
 Sylvia will be an Honorary Associate at the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during the period 2007-2010.
Career SummarySylvia's research interests include women involved in the Australian literary scene in the first half of the twentieth century and theoretical questions around the genres of auto/biography. Sylvia's recent book publications include Ida Leeson – A Life: Not a Blue-Stocking Lady (Allen & Unwin, 2006) and Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin (Onlywomen Press, 2001). Sylvia won the 2008 Magarey Prize for Biography for Ida Leeson: A Life. Not a Blue-Stocking Lady. The prize is awarded biennially and administered by ASAL and AHA. Her current research focuses on Aileen Palmer, writer and political activist and daughter of writers Vance and Nettie Palmer, and she continues to write an auto/biographical manuscript that explores the boundaries between autobiography and biography and considers questions of identity and belonging. Alternative contact detailsProf Cassandra Pybus
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| Email: Cassandra.Pybus@utas.edu.au |
Cassandra will be an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Tasmania during the period 2007-2010.
Cassandra has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. Her interests span as broadly as Australian social history, colonial history in North America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia, slavery and the history of labour, and the history of Tasmanian Aborigines. She has won numerous awards, most recently the Adelaide Festival Prize for Non Fiction in 2001 for her controversial book The Devil and James McAuley. Her most recent book publications include: Other Middle Passages, ed. (with Marcus Rediker and Emma Christopher), University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007, Epic journeys of freedom: Runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (Boston: The Beacon Press, 2006) and Black Founders: The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers (University of New South Wales Press, 2006).
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| Email: Ralph.Spaulding@utas.edu.au |
Ralph will be an Honorary Associate in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during the period March 2009 - March 2010.
Current and ongoing research:
The life and work of the first two professors of English at the University of Tasmania, William Henry Williams and Albert Booth Taylor.
School Readers in Tasmanian State Schools: A.J. Taylor's Tasmanian School Journal
The practice and place of poetry in the Tasmanian community with a focus on the work of Clive Sansom, Syd Harrex, Vivian Smith, Margaret Smith and Graeme Hetherington.
As State Representative for the Association for the the Study of Australian Literature, Ralph monitors and reports annually on literary activities (publications, seminars, awards etc) in Tasmania.
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