Tom Clark
Tom Clark is an associate professor at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is president of the Australasian Universities Languages and Literature Association. He reads some of the languages JRR Tolkien learned, including approximately half of the dead ones.
All essays by Tom Clark
We Are All Truth-Tellers Now
Cultural scholarship is usually contentious, let alone the kinds of scholarship that infer knowledge about the deep past from limited and fragile sources, but points of scholarly consensus around the autochthonous culture of Australia before and during the transitional phase of European ‘contact’ and then European colonisation have emerged and joined over the last 60 years or so to form extraordinary history, a history that Indigenous narrative traditions were always inviting the non-Indigenous imagination to engage with.
