AustLit

Dr Airlie Lawson: Lead Investigator

Dr Airlie Lawson is a literary sociologist and cartographer, a Visiting Fellow at the ANU's College of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Postdoctoral Fellow on Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project at the University of Melbourne. She has twenty years’ experience trading international publishing rights. For her doctoral thesis, Conditions of Access, she created a database that included international deals, licenses and editions, as well as quantifiable external factors that might have influenced them, so as to be able to answer the questions: how global is Australian literature in the 21^st century—and how did it become that way? This database will be able to be accessed through AustLit later this year.

Desley Martin, Research Assistant

Desley Martin is completing a Bachelor of Arts at The University of Queensland with majors in Writing and Ancient History and holds a Diploma in Fine Arts with majors in Sculpture and Painting. She is a regular attendee at the UQ Shakespeare Summer School with Dr Victoria Bladen and has been a dramaturg for Room To Play Independent Theatre since 2014.