Alexandra Dane

Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere

Alexandra Dane

Book Chapter  |  2020

With an emphasis on literature's responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to ..

Author Care and the Invisibility of Affective Labour: Publicists' Role in Book Publishing

Claire Parnell, Alexandra Dane, Millicent Weber

Journal article  |  2020  |  Publishing Research Quarterly

Publicists perform an important but ill-understood role within the publishing industry. Surveys of the Australian and UK publishin..

Gender and Prestige in Literature Contemporary Australian Book Culture

Alexandra Dane

Book  |  2020

Focusing on book reviews, literary festivals and literary prizes, this work analyses the ways in which these institutions exist in..

Eligibility, Access and the Laws of Literary Prizes

Alexandra Dane

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW

THE ABILITY OF LITERARY PRIZES TO SWAY LITERARY TASTES AND SHAPE CULTURAL discourse has long been explored through the decisions m..

The Conventions and Regulation of Book Culture

Millicent Weber, Alexandra Dane

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW

The production, reception and consumption of books are shaped by complex systems of policy, conventions and traditions. These rang..

Australian Humanities Review, Issue 66, May 2020

Editorship  |  2020  |  Australian Humanities Review

Cultural Capital as Performance

Alexandra Dane

Journal article  |  2020  |  Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture

The canvas tote bag, often branded with the name and logo of a popular cultural institution or bookstore, has become a shorthand f..

A sharper conversation: book publishers' use of social media marketing in the age of the algorithm

Sybil Nolan, Alexandra Dane

Journal article  |  2018  |  Media International Australia