Reading the Landscape:
A celebration of Australian writing
by Bernadette Brennan

Bernadette Brennan is a lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, where she gained her PhD in 2001 and was awarded the Eva Veronika Vidak Memorial Prize for the best thesis on an Australian topic. Bernadette’s research interest is in the field of Literature and Ethics. She has published in Australian Literary Studies, JASAL, Southerly, Antipodes and The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself (MUP 2002), Australian Literature and the Public Sphere (ASAL 1998) and Australian Writing and the City (ASAL 1999). She has co-edited JASAL (2005) and Southerly (2007) and is on the Editorial Board for Studies in Australasian Cinema. Bernadette is currently working on a critical study of Brian Castro’s writing.