Selected Works of Dr CA Cranston |
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2010 Convener: 3rd Biennial International Conference: ASLEC-ANZ Call for Papers 'Sounding the Earth: Music, Language, Acoustic Ecology' Dr CA Cranston is the President, Association for the Study of Literature, Environment, and Culture, Australia-New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ), 2009-2011. She is convening the Association's biennial conference 'Sounding the Earth: Music, Language, Acoustic Ecology' to be held in Launceston at the Inveresk Cultural Precinct, on 20, 21, 22 October 2010. Cranston is currently an Honorary Research Associate, University of Tasmania, where she taught from 1991-2007 in the School of English, Journalism, and European Languages. In 2008, and again in 2009, she received an Australia-India Council Fellowship as Adjunct Professor, University of Madras, Tamil Nadu; in 2006 she was a Visiting Professor at Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA; and during 2004, Visiting Professor at Alps-Adriatic University, Austria. She has served on various panels for Arts Tasmania; as the Tasmanian representative for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; and is on the advisory board of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism. CA was editor of ASAL's Notes & Furphies for 6 years, and of the ASLE-ANZ ANewZletter for 4 years Thematic Areas of Interest Literature and the Environment (ecocriticism); Literature and Disability Studies. Cranston is the recipient of an Outstanding Performance Award, Pioneer Award, and Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Tasmania, and Governor's Citation (Texas, USA) for her work in Radio. She is an alumna of the University of Texas (Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi), and the University of Tasmania. Areas taught (face to face, video-link, and online): Australian Literature; Australian Studies; British Romantic Poetry; Novel in the Nineteenth Century; The Body in the Text; American Nature Writing; Writing the Grand Tour, Australian Novel into Film. Books
Articles 2009 ‘From Shanty to Shanti: Teaching Australian Literature in India’ in ‘Australian Literature in a Global World’, JASAL Vol. 9, pp.1-14. 2009 ‘Literary Ecoconsciousness’ in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (eds.) New Delhi: SSS Publications. (379-385). ISBN No. 81-902282-1-0 2009 ‘Making Sense of Place’. Review: in Island 116 (Autumn) 73-77: http://www.islandmag.com/116/review.html 2008 ‘Wet, in the Mindscape of the Dry’ in Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations. Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volpp (eds). Wissenschaftliche Verlag Trier: Germany ISBN: 978-3-8-821-049-1 2008 ‘Discussing “Nature” as a Construction’ Interviewed by S. Susan Deborah and Rayson K. Alex, 9th OSLE-India Newsletter (Aug) pp. 2-6: 2007 ‘Islands’ in The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press. (pp. 219-260). 2007 ‘Setting the Scene: Littoral and Critical Contexts’. Robert Zeller and CA. Cranston, in The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers. Amsterdam & New York:: Rodopi Press. (pp. 7-30). 2007: ‘Water From the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch by Jean-François Vernay’. Commissioned article, JASAL Vol. 7, pp.116-121. 2006(Media) Presenter, 'Preserving Health: Traditional Chinese Medicine'. Luohu TV Productions, Shenzhen China and Australia (2xDVD 130 mins): http://www.preservinghealth.com.au 2005 ‘Quaker Writers, in Van Diemen’s Land’. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Nature. Bron Taylor (ed.). Thoemmes Continuum, New York, pp. 1319-1321. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2005 ‘James (Jim) McQueen’. Companion to Tasmanian History. Alison Alexander (ed). Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies. p. 226. 2005 ‘Narrative Streams’. Island 101 (Winter): 39-52. (Non-fiction creative writing: Wildcare Nature Writing Prize). Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2004 Chapter ‘C.J. Koch (1932-)’. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume Two Eighty Nine: Australian Writers, 1950-1975. Selina Samuels (ed.). Bruccoli Clark Layman, pp. 196-206. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2004 ‘James McQueen’. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Eugene Benson and Len Conolly (gen.eds). Routledge (1994, rpt;) Revised entry. 2004 ‘John Morrison’. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Eugene Benson and Len Conolly (gen. eds). Routledge (1994, rpt;). Revised entry. 2004 ‘Fortnight Diaries’. Tarkine. Ralph Ashton (ed.). World Wildlife Fund and Allen & Unwin, NSW: 32, 50, 67, 90, 96, 100, 104, 134. 2004 ‘Timeless’, CA. Cranston and Tim Thorne. Tarkine. Ralph Ashton (ed.). World Wildlife Fund and Allen & Unwin, NSW: 38. 2003 ‘Rambling in Overdrive’. Tasmanian Historical Studies 8 (2 ): 28-39. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2002 Chapter ‘John Morrison’. Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume Two Hundred Sixty: Australian Writers, 1915-1950. Selina Samuels (ed.).Bruccoli Clark Layman, pp. 239-249. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2001 Australian Literature Gateway and Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) e-published ‘Sentimental Jonah’s Heart of Stone’. Originally published in Australian Literary Studies,14 (October 1989): 216-228. 2001 ‘Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism’. Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century. Philip Mead (ed.). ASAL: Hobart, pp. 59-67. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2001 ‘A Mass of Thawing Clay’. Review of Christobel Mattingley’s King of the Wilderness: the Life of Deny King in Island 87 (Spring): 122-124. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ 2001 ‘Darwin’s Atrophied Brain’. Review of Mary E. Gillham’s Island Hopping in Tasmania’s Roaring Forties in Island 86 (August): 23-26. Available as an e-print: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/535/ Academic Presentations (since 2000) 2009 February. Plenary speaker. ‘(Hydro)power and the (de)formation of Identity in the case of Richard Flanagan’, Representation of Region and Nation in Literary and Culture Studies Conference, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. ‘The Eco-Story behind the Paper’. Madras Christian College, OSLE-India. April. ‘Ecocriticism for Beginners’. Queen Mary’s College, Chennai, TN. 2008 September. ‘Sustainable Communities: A Military Brat’s Perspective’, ASLE-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Australian-NewZealand), RMIT, Melbourne. July ‘From Shanty to Shanti’, ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature), Wollongong University, NSW. April (Invited Speaker, Public Lecture): ‘Ecocriticism Down Under’, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. April ‘Pre-Colonial Imaginings: Post-Colonial Footprints’. OSLE-India (Organisation for the Study of Literature and the Environment) seminar, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. (Tertiary Institution). 2007 June ‘Black Politics, Green Behaviour: the Legacy of Oodgeroo Noonucall of Minjerriba’, ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. (Tertiary Institution) March (Invited Speaker, Public Lecture): ‘I’d Rather be Hiking: Footnotes and Footwear (and Environmental Literature)’, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. March ‘Wom(a)n and Sustainability: Theory and Praxis’. Graduate seminar, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina May ‘Wet, in the Mindscape of the Dry’. EASCLE (European Association for the Study of Culture, Literature, and the Environment), Alps-Adriatic University, Klagenfurt, Austria. July ‘”Shits on Adelaide”: Shifting Images of Iron and Water’. ASAL, University of Western Australia, Perth. 2005 June ‘Cutting Corners: Salvaging Stories’. ASLE, University of Oregon. September ‘Pastoral Catastrophe: King Island transformations’. Community, Place and Change, Arts Seminar, University of Tasmania. 2004 May ‘Ariadne in the Land of Oz’. SDAS (Studies in the English Language and Literature in Slovenia) , Portoroz, Slovene. 2003 June ‘Living Sustainably: Traveler and Tourist Narratives’. Joint paper, ASLE, Boston University, Ma. ‘WebCT:WeepCA: pedagogy and the N-Gens’. Invited paper as a recipient of Pioneer Award, Teaching Matters Conference, UTas, Hobart. ‘Rambling in Overdrive’. CTHS (Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies), University of Tasmania, Hobart 2001 June ‘Tasmania: The Really Southern Gothic’. ASLE, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff June ‘Regionalism and the Environment’. Panel member, ASLE, North Arizona University, Flagstaff 2000 July ‘Providence Regained: Prudent Literature,’ ASAL, U of Tasmania, August ‘Performing Wilderness in a Textual Field’. Arts Seminar, UTas. Nov ‘Making Places, Mapping Spaces’. The Royal Society of Tasmania, at The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery © CA Cranston August 2009 |
CA Cranston CA is a peripatetic academic, interested in putting the life back into literature, and living the scholarship—by applying praxis and enjoyment to research and teaching. She is available for short contract positions in academia (research and teaching); and in communications, and media. ContactCA.Cranston@utas.edu.adu
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