Introduction to the Special Issue of JASAL on the Finding Australia’s Disabled Authors Symposium 25–27 September 2024

Authors

  • Amanda Tink Adelaide University
  • Jessica White Adelaide University

Abstract

This special issue follows the Finding Australia’s Disabled Authors Symposium, held online in September 2024. It was convened by Amanda Tink and supported by UniSA Creative, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). The symposium was part of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project of the same name, led by Jessica White.

Author Biographies

  • Amanda Tink, Adelaide University

    Dr Amanda Tink is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ARC Discovery Project Finding Australia's Disabled Authors: Connection, Creativity, Community”at Adelaide University, and Adjunct Research Fellow at Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre. She is a proud disabled person with research interests in Australian disabled authors, crip poetics and memoir, and the Nazi genocide of disabled people. Her PhD thesis Never Towing a Line: Les Murray, Autism, and Australian Literature details how Murray's autism and his experiences of being disabled influenced his poetry.

  • Jessica White, Adelaide University

    Associate Professor Jessica White is the author of the novels A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, which won the Michael Crouch award for a debut biography and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for nonfiction. Her most recent work is Silence is my Habitat: Ecobiographical Essays (Upswell Publishing). Jessica is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Adelaide University and is lead CI on the ARC Discovery Project Finding Australia's Disabled Authors: Connection, Creativity, Community.

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Published

2026-01-30

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1/2 (2025): Writing Disability

Section

Preliminary pages

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How to Cite

Introduction to the Special Issue of JASAL on the Finding Australia’s Disabled Authors Symposium 25–27 September 2024. (2026). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 25(1/2). https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/22142