Half the Perfect World

Tanya Dalziell is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Professor of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia. Her most recent books are Joan London (2024) and Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics (2020).

Paul Genoni is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University. He is the author of Subverting the Empire: Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction (2004) and is co-editor (with Tanya Dalziell) of Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature, 1935-2012 (2013).