Dr Meg Brayshaw

Meg is the John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. Broadly interested in the intersection of literary cultures and forms with history, politics, and the environment, she has published on a range of topics including Australian modernism, urban literature, melodrama, crime fiction, and the Anthropocene as narrative form. She is currently working on two projects: a literary history of mining in Australia, and a monograph on Dymphna Cusack and Australian realism during the Cold War. At Sydney University Press, she is academic editor of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.