Paul Sharrad is a Senior Fellow in English at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. Internationally renowned for his research in the field of postcolonial literary study and writing, Sharrad has made significant and sustained contributions to scholarship in this area, with a particular focus on Australian, Indian and Pacific writing.

Over the course of his long and distinguished career as an educator, Paul Sharrad has taught at universities in Australia, Singapore, France and the United States, and has been invited to lecture at several universities in India. He has been at the forefront of developing postcolonial studies in Australia.

Sharrad was a founding editor of the CRNLE Reviews Journal and editor of New Literatures Review. He has acted as a reader for respected international scholarly journals and publishers and a judge for many creative writing prizes. A few publications from among his extensive and authoritative body of work are:
Transnational Spaces of India and Australia [co-edited] (2022)
Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine (2019)
Of Indian Origin: Writings from Australia [co-edited] (2018)
The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 [co-edited] (2017)
Postcolonial Literary History and Indian English Fiction (2008)

Preface
Map of Australia
Map of New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria
Introduction

1.   Convicts to Reform   1788–1850
2.   Boom and Bust to Federation   1850–1901
3.   Commonwealth to Collapse   1901–1930
4.   Susso to Soldiers   1930–1950
5.   Prosperity to Vietnam   1950–1965
6.   Dissent to Dismissal   1965–1975
7.   Multicultural to Bicentenary   1975–1988
8.   Deregulation to GFC   1988–2008
9.   GFC to Covid   2008–2020

Glossary of Australian Terms
Useful Resources
Comparative Timeline for Australian Literature
Index