Ecosustainable Narratives and Partnership Relationships in World Literatures in English

Antonella Riem Natale, AM, is an internationally renowned scholar of world literatures in English. For over 30 years, she has held many significant institutional roles at the University of Udine, Italy. She authored nine volumes and more than 120 international publications, and was the recipient of the inaugural Prize of the Center for Partnership Studies in 2018. She was awarded the Honorary Membership of the Order of Australia in 2021 by the Government of Australia for her contribution to the international study of Australian literature.

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth holds the Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on literature and the environment. His book Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (2017) won the Walter McRae Russell Prize for best work of Australian literary criticism in 2019. His first book, Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886-1888 (2001), won the Ernest Scott and WK Hancock Prizes for Australia history. From 2010 to 2015, he was the co-editor of Westerly Magazine, and is now Director of the Westerly Research Group.