Alexandra Dane is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her research explores the notion of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary book cultures, community publishing activities and literary counter-publics. She is the author of White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture (2023 Cambridge UP) and Gender and Prestige in Literature: Contemporary Australian Book Culture (2020 Palgrave Macmillan).

Research Project at EXC Temporal Communities:

Prizeworthiness: Kinship Beyond Literary Nationalism