Changing Notions of Disability in Contemporary Australian Literature and Society

在2022财年上半年，PI在与赠款相关的研究活动方面取得了强劲进展。国际残疾人联合会从新南威尔士州图书馆和悉尼大学图书馆收集了有关残疾问题的主要资料。在同一次研究之旅中，国际文学联合会在昆士兰大学的研讨会上发表了一篇论文，题为《书写人类世》，由批判和创造性写作中心组织。国际文学联合会目前正在扩大和编辑他们关于这次演讲的工作，目标是在2023财年初向一份同行评议的期刊提交一篇关于这些小说的全文。PI在2022财年参与的另一个重要而漫长的项目是担任《安第斯》的客座编辑。该协会是《澳大利亚类型小说中的残疾表现：传统方法和新方向》特刊(第36卷，第1期)的唯一客座编辑。特刊包括一篇由国际和平协会撰写的导言和六篇由全球学者撰写的同行评议文章。私隐专员公署积极参与寻找专家学者以匿名方式审阅文章的过程；协助作者修改作品；与总编辑联络，为特刊寻找封面艺术；以及审阅作者文章的文本编辑版本。他们在研究之旅中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.