Worlding the Antipodes: Approaches and methods for Australian and New Zealand literatures in a global context

文章來源:國際商務(wù)外語學(xué)院 作者: 發(fā)布時間:2016-09-08 瀏覽次數(shù):441

地點:信息樓503
日期:2016-09-08

講座題目:Worlding theAntipodes: Approaches and methods for Australian and New Zealand literatures ina global context

講座人:Professor NicoleMoore

時間: 10:00 am – 12:00 am,Sept. 8, Thursday

地點:信息樓503

講座摘要:

This talk is a brief introduction to thestudy of Australian and New Zealand literatures in a contemporary globalcontext. Drawing on the forthcoming landmark release of the first volumepublished on Australian or New Zealand writing in the influential US-basedModern Languages Association Options for Teaching Series, edited by NicholasBirns (The New School, New York), Sarah Sheiff (Waikato, New Zealand) andmyself (Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, MLA 2017), this paperoutlines the broad context and history of these literatures. It then surveys aset of current approaches to diverse topics and writers in from the twocountries, with regard to international trends and developing methodologies, todemonstrate the possibilities that this new collection can open up in theglobal classroom. The talk will also introduce some revealing examples ofAustralian literature, focusing on a set of poems from different authors thatall share the title “Australia” and address the very question of a nationalliterature, each at quite different moments of the twentieth century.

主講人簡介:

Professor Nicole Moore is an AustralianResearch Council Future Fellow in English at the University of New South Walesin Canberra. She is author of the prize-winning study The Censor’s Library (UQP 2012), editor of Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View (Bloomsbury 2015), co-editor with Christina Spittel of Reading Through the Iron Curtain: Australian Literature in the GermanDemocratic Republic (Anthem 2016), and, with Nicholas Birns and SarahShieff, Teaching Australian and NewZealand Literatures, published by the MLA Options for Teaching series(forthcoming 2016). She is current President of the Australian University Headsof English (AUHE) and serves on the AustLit database management board. Herfellowship funds a biography of Dorothy Hewett.

Nicole Moore: n.moore@adfa.edu.au