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Literature, Identity & Culture
Director: Associate Professor Paul Sharrad
LIC Seminar Program Convenor: Dr Melissa Boyde
LIC research is focussed on the relationship between literature, culture and identity formation and transformation. Literature is understood as a multiplicity of writing cultures that are studied in relation to material, aesthetic and performative cultures.
Our research is primarily concerned with literature written in English(es), but includes a number of projects that are multi-lingual and cross-cultural. Members are also working in interdisciplinary areas that explore relationships between literature and architecture, painting, music, food, textiles and gardens.
Current research falls into three focus areas: Australian Literature, Life Writing and Postcolonial/Transcultural/Diasporic Literatures. Comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship is encouraged.
LIC 2010 Seminar themes:
Autumn - Sexualities
Spring - Poetry
Arts Central
Noticeboard
23 & 24 November - Workshop
The Big Island: Promoting Contemporary Pacific Art and Craft in Australia: A Development Workshop (closed workshop) »
Workshop Program »
30 November
2009 Sir Richard Kirby Public Lecture
The Hon Julia Gillard Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations; Minister for Education; Minister for Social Inclusion.
30 November & 1 December - Workshop
Internet Regulation and Filtering in Australia and the Asia-Pacific »
10 - 11 December
Philososphy Workshop: Embodied Cognition, Enactivism and the Extended Mind »