Impact
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We shape public debate as recognised experts who are regularly consulted by the media on Australian literature, censorship and war and on American studies.
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As editor of Anthem Press’s Studies in Australian Literature and Culture series, Professor Nicole Moore has overseen the publication of 15 breakthrough titles exploring the role of Australian culture in the contemporary world.
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Our well-cited scholarly research informs teaching and research internationally, embedding the Australian case in global learning and debates, while bringing global perspectives to the cultural issues immediate to us here.
Competitive Advantage
Our presence as a group of literary scholars in Canberra concentrates a strength shared with our colleagues in the School of Arts and Media on the UNSW Sydney campus, particularly in our unparalleled quantum of expertise on Australian literature and war literature.
Our expertise is underpinned by the outstanding collections of international and Australian literature held in the Academy Library and in the UNSW Canberra Special Collections, including rare first editions of Australian titles and world-class manuscript collections in contemporary Australian writing and performance.
Our strong connections with Australia’s major cultural institutions here in Canberra further support this. Our research is supported by a strong track record of national and international funding, in collaborative projects that reach to the UK, Ireland, Germany, China, New Zealand and the US.
We have research strengths in:
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Australian and comparative literary studies
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British literature
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American literature and culture
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war literature, media and film
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romanticism and Eighteenth-Century literature
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censorship and the history of the book
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memory studies
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life-writing and biography.