DrMeg Brayshaw

Project Opportunities

Title: Australian literature and literary engagements with environment

Summary of opportunity:

Research interests

• The twentieth and twenty-first century Australian novel
• The realist novel
• Place, space, ecology and environment in Australian literaturel
• Global modernisms
• Literary engagements with resource extraction and energy

Opportunity synopsis:

Meg Brayshaw is broadly interested in the intersection of literary cultures and forms with history, politics and environment, she has published on a range of topics including Australian modernism, urban literature, melodrama, and the Anthropocene as narrative form. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Library of Australia and the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. At Sydney University Press, she is academic editor of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.