Cirrus@Austlit

'Antonella Riem is a professor of English Literature at the University of Udine, in the north-east of Italy close to its borders with Austria and Slovenia. She is an internationalist, interested in Anglophone literatures across the world, and the founder of the Partnership Studies Group at the University, an international network dedicated to promoting a more equitable and caring approach to human relations (partnership) in opposition to a hierarchical, authoritarian (dominator) model. The Group is inspired by the anthropological and cultural work of Riane Eisler, an American whose writings have been influential across a range of fields—law, economics, anthropology—around the world. Riem’s Group focuses on exploring the partnership/dominator dynamic in World Literatures in English, with Riem particularly interested in the literature of India, Canada and Australia. She studied at the University of Queensland in the 1980s and has visited Australia many times.' 

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