Writing and Society Research Centre

Australian Indigenous Storytelling

This project examines how Aboriginal stories have been told in recent years, and which stories have been used in the creation of a national narrative for re-shaping Aboriginal Australia.

The Sydney Review of Books

The Sydney Review of books is a Writing and Society initiative that has been sparked by concerns about the dwindling space for literary criticism in Australian media. It is an online review site that focuses on Australian critics and writers.

The China Australia Literary Forum 

The Writing and Society Research Centre is developing significant relationships between Chinese and Australian authors and critics that are producing important creative and critical research including the translation of centre member Alexis Wright's novel Capentaria into Chinese. 

Australia India Literatures International Forum

Centre research fellow Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty leads this Writing and Society initiative that has developed links between Indian and Australian authors and publishers. This initiative builds on Mridula's previous events Being Bengali and Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora.

 

Creative Nation: Writers and Writing in the New Media Culture

Associate Professor Anna Gibbs and Dr Maria Angel from the Writing and Society Research Centre, together with partner investigator Professor Joseph Tabbi from the University of Illinois, Chicago are studying the impact of the culture of new media on literary writing. This project has involved a number of events including one featuring author Mark Amerika on new media writing.

Spanish America – a Literary Laboratory

Dr Christopher Andrews, the esteemed translator of many of Roberto Bolaño's books and member of the Writing and Society Research Centre, is studying recent fiction by Spanish American writers and how their compositional procedures are related to their political, ethical and aesthetic values.