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Current Research Projects
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.
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.
The India Australia Literary Forum
Centre research fellow Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty is leading a Writing and Society initiative to develop an India Australia Literary Forum. This initiative will build on Mridula's previous events Being Bengali and Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora.
