InASA ECR/HDR Workshop
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) or Higher Degree Research (HDR) student eager to advance your career in Australian Studies? Join us at the ECR/HDR Workshop during the InASA conference, where you will gain insights and useful tips on how to submit grant applications, publish your work, and navigate your career path with confidence.
The panelists include Professor Anna Johnston, Associate Professor Jess Carniel, Professor Chris Hay, Dr Geoffrey Rodoreda, and Dr Daozhi Xu.
Anna Johnston is Professor of Literature at The University of Queensland and the current InASA President. She held the 2014-15 AJF Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo, and held both ARC Queen Elizabeth II and ARC Future Fellowships at UTAS and UQ. She was the 2022 John Oxley Honorary Research Fellow, State Library of Queensland, for her project “History & Fiction: Mapping Frontier Violence in Colonial Queensland Writing.” Her major books include The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770-1870 (CUP 2023); Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier (SUP 2022, edited with Elizabeth Webby); The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture, and Power in Colonial New South Wales (UWAP, 2011); and Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (CUP 2003).
Jess Carniel is Associate Professor of Humanities in the School of Humanities andCommunication at the University of Southern Queensland. Jess is Australia’s preeminentscholar of the Eurovision Song Contest, focusing her research on understanding its meaningand significance for Australian audiences within a changing context of multiculturalism,globalisation, and shifting regional geopolitics. She is the incoming co-Editor of the Journal of Australian Studies, and a member of the InASA Executive.
Chris Hay is Professor of Drama in the Flinders Drama Centre at Flinders University, wherehe is also the academic lead for AusStage, the Australasian live performance database. AnAustralian theatre and cultural historian, his research examines subsidised cultural outputfor what it reveals about national preoccupations and anxieties. He is the incoming co-Editorof the Journal of Australian Studies, and co-President of the Australasian Association forTheatre, Drama and Performance Studies.
Geoff Rodoreda is a lecturer in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. In an earlier life he studied politics, media theory and journalism in Sydney, and worked as a journalist at the ABC in Adelaide and Darwin, before moving to Germany in the late 1990s. In 2012 he returned to university, in Stuttgart, to complete a PhD, which resulted in the monograph, The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction (Peter Lang, 2018). He is also the co-editor of Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia (Anthem, 2021).
Daozhi Xu is currently a DECRA fellow in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. She completed her PhD at the University of Hong Kong, and received the prestigious Macquarie University Research Fellowship for 2020-2023. Her research interests include settler colonialism, race and representation, Chinese Australian history, and Indigenous literature. She is the author of Indigenous Cultural Capital: Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children’s Literature (2018). She has published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Australian Aboriginal Studies, JASAL, and Antipodes. She is secretary of the International Australian Studies Association.
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