Changing Notions of Disability in Contemporary Australian Literature and Society

在2022财年上半年，PI在与拨款相关的研究活动方面取得了重大进展。PI从新南威尔士州国立图书馆和悉尼大学图书馆收集了关于残疾问题的主要资料。在同一次研究旅行中，PI在昆士兰大学研讨会上发表了一篇论文，题为“书写人类世”，由批判性和创造性写作中心组织。PI目前正在扩展和编辑他们的报告工作，目标是在2023财年初向同行评议的期刊提交一篇关于这些小说的长篇文章。PI在2022财年参与的另一个重要而漫长的项目是担任《Antipodes》的客座编辑。PI是特刊《澳大利亚体裁小说中的残疾表现：传统方法和新方向》的唯一客座编辑。1）. 该特刊包括PI撰写的介绍和全球学者的六篇同行评议文章。PI积极参与了寻找专家学者匿名审查文章的过程；协助作者对作品进行微调；联络总编辑为特刊寻找封面；审查作者文章的编辑版本。PI在研究旅行期间从悉尼大学图书馆获得的资料被用作介绍的参考资料。

For the first half of FY2022, the PI made strong progress with research activities connected to the grant. The PI collected key sources on disability issues from the State Library of New South Wales and the University of Sydney Library. During the same research trip, the PI presented a paper at the University of Queensland symposium, “Writing the Anthropocene,” organised by the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing. The PI is currently expanding on and editing their work on this presentation, with the aim of submitting a full-length article on these novels to a peer-reviewed journal in early FY2023. Another important and lengthy project that the PI engaged in during FY2022 was serving as a guest editor for Antipodes. The PI was the sole guest editor for the special issue “Disability Representation in Australian Genre Fiction: Traditional Approaches and New Directions” (vol. 36, no. 1). The special issue includes an introduction written by the PI and six peer-reviewed articles by global scholars. The PI was heavily involved in the process of finding expert academics to review the articles anonymously; assisting the authors in finetuning their work; liaising with the general editor in sourcing cover art for the special issue; and reviewing copy edited versions of the authors’ articles. Sources that the PI obtained from the University of Sydney Library during their research trip were used as references for the introduction.