AAALS will sponsor sessions at the 1998 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention to be held in San Francisco, 27-30 December 1998.

Session 1 -- "Australia and the Pacific"

  • "Australia as 'hell for white men': Settler Masculinity and Chinese Men in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony."
    Michelle Elleray, Cornell University
  • "Engaging Travel Fictions: Reading the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Empire in Christina Stead's Autobiographical Fiction."
    Brigid Rooney, Macquarie University, Australia
  • "Who is Mudrooroo?"
    Terry Goldie York University, Canada

Session 2 -- Reading by John Kinsella, Australian Poet


Further information concerning the sessions that the AAALS organizes each year at the MLA Convention may be obtained from:



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