Introduction

Authors

  • Emily Potter Deakin University
  • Brigid Magner RMIT

Abstract

Introduction to the 2024 special issue for the 2023 LitCon Conference.

Author Biographies

  • Emily Potter, Deakin University

    Emily Potter is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She researches across the fields of Australian literary studies, the environmental humanities, and place-making studies, with a particular focus on regional places and communities, as well as creative and participatory research methodologies. She is the author of Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler–Colonial Place (2019), and the lead CI of the ARC-funded project, “Understanding place-based repair in climate-affected communities”. 

  • Brigid Magner, RMIT

    Brigid Magner was born in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and now lives in Naarm/Melbourne. She is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at RMIT University and co-director of the non/fictionLab. Her monograph, Locating Australian Literary Memory, was published by Anthem Press in 2019. She is chief investigator on the ARC-funded project, “Reading in the Mallee: The Literary Past and Future of an Australian Region”.

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Published

2025-05-09

Issue

Section

Preliminary pages

How to Cite

Introduction. (2025). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 24(2). https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/20868