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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Nicholas Birns for generously providing advice and encouragement at every stage of the project. Gwen Tarbox, Allen Webb, and Todd Kuchta deserve thanks for their advice, support, and friendship. Bill Ashcroft was the first of the contributors to respond to my call for papers and the first to send a completed chapter. His enthusiastic support for the project and advice regarding publication has been invaluable. This project began as a panel at the 2008 annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association held in Buffalo, New York. I especially want to thank Nicholas Dunlop for participating in that panel and expanding his fascinating paper for this collection. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Peter Mathews, and Lyn McCredden all provided assistance in addition to contributing excellent scholarship. I want to thank the members of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for providing an expatriate Australianist with an intellectual community and important friendships over the past seven years. The thirteen contributors to this volume all deserve my special thanks for their excellent scholarship, thoughtful revisions (often at