Dr CA Cranston
University Associate
Contact Details
General Responsibilities
CA will be a University Associate at the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during the period April 2012 - April 2015.
Publications
Her publications include:
Books:
- 2007 The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers. Intro and co-edited with Robert Zeller, Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
- 2000 Along These Lines: From Trowenna to Tasmania. Cornford Press: Tasmania. A place-based anthology of writings about Tasmania.
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.
- 2009 'Making Sense of Place'. Review: Island 116 (Autumn) 73-77.
- 2008 'Wet, in the Mindscape of the Dry' in Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations. Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volpp (eds). Wissenschaftliche Verlag Trier: Germany ISBN: 978-3-8-821-049-1.
- 2008 'Discussing “Nature” as a Construction' Interviewed by S. Susan Deborah and Rayson K. Alex, 9th OSLE-India Newsletter (Aug) pp. 2-6.
- 2007 'Setting the Scene: Littoral and Critical Contexts', with Robert Zeller, in The Littoral Zone. CA.Cranston and Robert Zeller (eds). pp. 7-29.
- 2007 'Islands', in The Littoral Zone. Cranston and Zeller (eds). pp, 219-260.
- 2007 'Water From the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch by Jean-Francoise Vernay'. Commissioned JASAL, Vol.7, 116-121.
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.
- 2009 April. 'Ecocriticism for Beginners. Queen Mary's College, Chennai.
- 2008 April 'Ecocriticism Down Under'. Public lecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
- 2008 April 'Pre-Colonial Imaginings, Post-Colonial Footprints'. Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Tamil Nadu.
- 2008 July 'From Shanty to Shanti: Teaching Australian Studies in Asia', Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), University of Wollongong.
- 2008 Sept 'Sustainable Communities: A Military Brat's Perspective', Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-ANZ) symposium, RMIT, Victoria.
- 2007 June 'Black Politics, Green Behaviour: the Legacy of Oodgeroo Noonuccal', Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Career Summary
CA 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).
