From Australian Literature to the World
During my course work in my Master of Arts degree, I shied away from the venerable Prof. of English, William H New because everyone said it was impossible to get an A in his class. Finally I was running out of options, and took his class on Australian literature. It changed the course of my life. I ended up moving to Australia to undertake a PhD in comparative Canadian-Australian litersture; now after many years crossing the Pacific, my research centres on the the shared ocean between us.
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Story submitted by
Victoria Kuttainen
Townsville, Australia
Graduated 1995,
Faculty of Arts
Graduated 2001, Master of Arts
Faculty of Arts