Staff in English research in the areas of Australian literature and literary history, scholarly editing and bibliography, American studies, and contemporary Australian art and media. Recent theses in English include studies of twentieth-century American writers and Australian representations of Japan. The ADFA Library has a wide-ranging collection of manuscripts of Australian writers active over the last 40 years (such as Bob Ellis, Nick Enright, David Foster and Jennifer Rankin) and we are particularly interested in research proposals that take advantage of this collection.

 

English staff have been leaders in the AustLit project creating an electronic database of material about Australian literature . Paul Eggert leads the Academy Editions Project that has published authoritative editions of major Australian texts, and Susan Lever currently edits JASAL the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature . Heather Neilson serves on the editorial board of AJAS, the Australasian Journal of American Studies. Recent publications by staff include Katherine Barnes's Higher self in Christopher Brennan's poems : esotericism, romanticism, symbolism, and Paul Eggert's Academy edition of Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms (edited with Elizabeth Webby).

Current English staff:

Professor Paul Eggert, Associate Professor Susan Lever, Dr Heather Neilson, Mr Jeff Doyle,
Dr Kathie Barnes.