His research has led him to publish on the work of the New Zealand novelist and short story writer Janet Frame, whom he admires greatly, as well as on an array of Australian writers whose investment in a certain idea of nationalism has sometimes seemed at odds with their professed progressive or post-colonial politics.
He is currently pursuing an interest in how literature might meet the imaginative challenge of adequately representing, and perhaps efficiently countering, the dangers of climate change, together with the need to move away from the destructive consequences of Europeans’ sense of entitlement and privilege and towards an idea of climate and social justice.
