Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is the Director of the Westerly Centre and the Chair of English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (UWAP 2017), Paper Nation: The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (MUP 2001), and numerous articles on Australian literature, film and cultural history. Tony was the co-editor of Westerly Magazine from 2010 to 2014. Photo: Travis Hayto Photography

Tanya Dalziell works in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her most recent books include Gail Jones: Word and Image (Sydney UP, forthcoming) and Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamer and Drifters on Hydra 1955-1964 (Monash UP, 2018), co-authored with Paul Genoni. Photo: Travis Hayto Photography

James Gourley is a senior lecturer in literary studies at Western Sydney University and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. His research addresses modern and contemporary literature. His recent work on modernism and its relation to contemporary literature appears in College Literature and English Studies.

Lou Jillett recently completed her PhD at Western Sydney University. Her thesis investigated the theme of wandering in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. She co-convened a three-day international McCarthy conference  2014 which led to an edited collection of essays, Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes (2016). Lou’s current research focuses on ecocritical approaches to the theme and representation of disappearance in Australian literature, and the function of walking within that literature: as record, as remembrance and as reclamation of space.

Elizabeth McMahon is an associate professor in the School of Arts and media, University of New South Wales. She researches in the fields of Australian literature and Island Studies and her recent monograph, Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination (2016), won two national awards. With Brigitta Olubas she has edited numerous book collections, the most recent on the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower (2017). A forthcoming collection on Antigone Kefala will be published by University of Western Australia Press in 2019. She has edited journals continuously since 1997: Australian Humanities Review for ten years; and Southerly since 2008.

Brigid Rooney teaches Australian literature in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She has written widely on twentieth century and contemporary Australian literature and has co-edited scholarly collections on such topics as Christina Stead and Australian literature as world literature. She has published two sole-authored books: Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life (University of Queensland Press, 2009) and Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity (Anthem Press, 2018).

Meg Samuelson is an associate professor in the Department of English & Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and an associate professor extraordinary at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has published widely in Southern African literary and cultural studies. Her recent and current research engages with photography in Zanzibar, coastal form in narrative fiction from the African Indian Ocean littoral, surfing cultures and the Indian Ocean shore-break, sharks as uncanny figures of racial terror in the Anthropocene, the southern orientations of J. M. Coetzee’s writing, the oceanic south and world maritime literatures.

Anthony Uhlmann is a Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. His first novel, Saint Antony in His Desert, was published by UWAP in 2018. He is the author of two monographs on Samuel Beckett, and most recently Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov. His work focuses on the exchanges that take place between literature and philosophy and the way in which literature itself is a kind of thinking. Besides Other Worlds he is currently working on a project on Spinoza and Literature with Moira Gatens.