Literature as Olympic Event?: Understanding the Scoreboard for Australian Women's Writing

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3616

Keywords:

Literary History, Women in Literature, Digital Humanities, Metrics

Abstract

"...there is a degree of overlap between my watching of the Olympics and an increasingly prominent means of understanding and advocating for women in literature: metrics regarding women’s representation."

Author Biography

Katherine Bode, Australian National University

Professor Katherine Bode teaches Australian and digital literary studies in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University. She has published extensively on Australian literature and digital collections, including in her monograph, Reading by Numbers:Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012), and in a forthcoming book with University of Michigan Press entitled A World of Fiction: DigitalCollections and the Future of Literary History. In 2018 she will begin an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to investigate professional and social media reception of Australian literature.

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Published

2017-12-15

How to Cite

Bode, K. (2017). Literature as Olympic Event?: Understanding the Scoreboard for Australian Women’s Writing. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3616

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Essays and Articles on Australian Literature