Australian literature
body & environment
Research at the intersections of literature, environment,
ecocriticism and disability, with a focus on Australian literature.
Uluru during Kuli Pulka season (January), after a heavy rain
CA. Cranston is a Research Associate with the University of Tasmania, working in Australian literature, ecocriticism and disability studies, and the relationship between the body, text and environment.
Research & Writing samples
Australian Literature & Disability Studies
‘The Zwergroman: Literary Dwarfs under the Australian Gaze’
pp. 78-93.
Book Chapters & Journals
‘Challenging contemp-orary ecocritical place- discourses: military brats, shadow places, and homeplace con-sumerism’ pp. 73-87
Conferences & Presentations
‘I’d rather be hiking’, Appalachian State U, presenting WWF -funded wilderness campaign book, Tarkine.
Books & Publications
Selected books and publications from CA. Cranston’s research and writing.
The Littoral Zone
Australian Contexts and their Writers, Rodopi / Brill, Amsterdam and New York, 2007
Along these Lines
From Trowenna to Tasmania.
At least two centuries of peripatetic perspectives
in poetry and prose. Cornford Press, 2000
‘Inheriting Isotopes: the Androcene and the End of Nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-Bomb Test Sites.’ Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond, Routledge, 2024, pp. 27–45.
Contact
For enquiries, collaborations and academic correspondence, please get in touch.