The Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is an international academic organisation that advances research in all fields of language and literature, including linguistics, film studies and cultural studies, in the tertiary institutions of Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. AULLA is affiliated with the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM) and the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies (FIEC). It was founded in 1950 as the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association and assumed its present title in 1957.

AULLA’s mission is to promote cross-disciplinary connections and synergies and to encourage innovative research directions in language, literature and cultural studies. To facilitate this, AULLA holds a biennial congress, focussed on a specific theme, that brings together scholars from all disciplines associated with the study and teaching of language and literature.

AUMLA is the association’s journal and has been published twice yearly (May and November) since 1953. It has an international focus and is fully peer-reviewed.

The Sussex-Samuel Prize for Postgraduate Students is offered by AULLA to encourage postgraduate student participation in the broader scholarly community.  The prize is awarded every two years for a paper presented at the AULLA congress by a postgraduate student and judged by a panel within the Executive to be significant, innovative and accomplished. The applicant must be a currently enrolled postgraduate research student. The author of the winning paper will receive a prize of AUS$1000, and the paper will be developed for publication in AUMLA. To be considered for the prize, the paper must be submitted as a 5000-7000 word essay on the congress theme before 31 December of the year preceding the congress.  If in the opinion of the selection committee no suitable essay has been submitted, the prize may not be awarded in that year.

Annual membership of the Association costs $AUD 60 for individuals and $AUD 70 for institutions. Members of the Association receive the two print issues of the journal published in the year of subscription.

The thirty-sixth congress of the Association will take place in Auckland, New Zealand, from 7-9 February 2011. The theme will be "Storytelling in Literature, Language and Culture". Full details of the conference are available here.

RThe TheTfereed proceedings of the 2007 Conference held in Sydney are available now for download here.