AustLit

'In 2015 [author website] was launched by literature, geography, media and culture researchers [withheld]. It combines field research with Google Maps technology to reveal, for the first time, the spread of old and new commemorative sites of Australian literature in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Previous maps, such as Monument Australia and the Cultural Atlas of Australia, have not included sites of literary commemoration. [author website] contributes to an emergent field of international scholarship within the humanities interested space, place and the geo and digital humanities.  The project provides a fresh basis for comparative scholarship with international literary maps and placemaking – including, for example, Franco Moretti’s Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998) to David Cooper et al’s Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (2016). '   (Publication abstract)