American Association for Australian Literary Studies
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The American Association for Australian Literary Studies (AAALS) is an organization of scholars in North America to study and promote research in the literature of Australia. Its activities are partially funded by the Literature Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. It publishes the journal Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature and holds an annual conference, rotated between several locations in the United States and Canada. The most recent AAALS conferences were 20065, at Harvard University; 2006, at McGill University; and 2007, at georgetown University. The organization was founded in 1986 by Robert L. Ross (1934-2005) and has since then assumed an increasing international profile. Featured guests have included Peter Carey, David Malouf, Frank Moorhouse, Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and John Kinsella. In 1996 the AAALS became an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association.
