Writing and researching (in) the regions

The special issue of TEXT on writing and researching (in) the regions provides a robust portrait of the ways in which regional Australia is imagined, produced, and negotiated by writers and scholars working in a range of settings broadly understood as regional. The writing and research here gather around a range of themes: writing (in) the regions; teaching (in) the regions; and publishing (in) the regions. Together, these works contribute to the ongoing negotiations around how to understand, interpret, work within and nurture regional writing, teaching and research

Are you there? Can you forgive me? [Book review]

Review of: Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi (eds), The World to Come. Spineless Wonders, Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, 2014. ISBN 9781925052046

The application of the scanning electron microscope to studies of current multiplication, avalanche breakdown and thermal runaway. Part 1 - General physical basis

Scanning electron microscope applications in study of current multiplication, avalanche breakdown, and thermal runaway - Physical basi

An interview with Nike Sulway

Nike Sulway’s latest book, Rupetta (2013), won the James Tiptree, Jr Award for a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of gender/sexuality. Rupetta begins four hundred years ago in rural France, where a young woman creates a part human, part mechanical woman, who she calls Rupetta. Bound to each of the women who wind her heart, the novel narrates the miracles and tragedies of Rupetta’s existence. The novel is also told from the point of view of Henri, a history student who yearns for her own mechanical heart. But as Henri uncovers the history of the Salt Lane women – mothers and daughters whose lives were shaped by Rupetta’s – she questions the very truth upon which she has always understood the world and her place in it. Nike’s first novel, The Bone Flute (2001), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Awards and won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Emerging Queensland Author. Her other books are What the Sky Knows (2005), a children’s picture book illustrated by Stella Danalis, and the novel The True Green of Hope  (2005) (as N.A. Bourke). Nike has a PhD in Creative Writing from Griffith University and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Queensland. She also blogs at Perilous Adventures. This interview was conducted by email in June 2015

The application of the scanning electron microscope to studies of current multiplication, avalanche breakdown and thermal runaway. Part 2 - General studies, mainly non-thermal

Scanning electron microscope applications in study of current multiplication, avalanche breakdown, and thermal runaway - Nonthermal effects in Read diode