Paul Eggert currently holds a five-year Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship to produce an electronic archive and new scholarly edition of the collected poems of Charles Harpur.  Paul’s latest book, Securing the Past, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. He leads the Australian Scholarly Editions Project, publishing authoritative editions of major Australian texts: the Academy edition of Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms (edited with Elizabeth Webby) was published in 2006. Nicole Moore’s ARC-funded research on literary censorship in Australia includes the bibliographic database Banned in Australia, hosted by Austlit, and a forthcoming new history titled The Censor’s Library. She was contributing editor for 1900-1950 for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (Allen & Unwin, 2009) and is reviews editor for Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge).  Heather Neilson is a co-editor of AJAS, The Australasian Journal of American Studies, and publishes mainly on American literature. Most recently, Jeff Doyle has published a number of gallery notes and catalogue entries on the Australian artists Ken Unsworth, Lex Dickson, and Peter Daly.

Visiting Fellows in English at ADFA continue to publish notable work, including Katherine Barnes' Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism (Brill 2006), and the anthologies of poet Geoff Page, most recently Eighty Great Poems from Chaucer till Now (UNSW Press 2006) and Sixty Classic Australian Poems (UNSW Press 2009). Susan Lever’s critical study of novelist David Foster was publishedin 2008 (while she was on staff) and she continues on the editorial board of JASAL (Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature). Emeritus Professor Harry Heseltine launched his memoir  In Due Season: Australian Literary Studies 1957-2008 (Australian Scholarly Publishing) at the National Library of Australia in 2009, and Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett’s most recent publication was published in India: Of Sadhus and Spinners: Australian Encounters with India, with Santosh K. Sareen, Susan Cowan, Asha Kanwar (eds.) (HarperCollins Publishers India, 2009).

Current English staff:

Professor Paul Eggert, Associate Professor Nicole Moore, Dr Heather Neilson, Mr Jeff Doyle.