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Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar
14
Dec
2023

Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar

Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar: Catherine Vidler (1973-2023) was one of Australia’s foremost visual and lyric...
Covers of Miles Franklin's "My Brilliant Career" (1901); & "All That Swagger" (1936)
21
Sep
2023

Postcolonialism in Australian Literature: The Case of Miles Franklin (1879-1954)

This seminar brings together postcolonial literary theory and contemporary political theory. Students of Australian politics tend to separate political and...
Dymphna Cusack’s resourceful melodrama: Carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Southern Steel (1953)
24
Aug
2023

Dymphna Cusack’s resourceful melodrama: Carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Southern Steel (1953)

In a 1992 review of Abdelrahmen Munif’s Cities of Salt, Amitav Ghosh coined the term ‘petrofiction’ and pointed towards the invisibility of fossil fuels in...
In conversation: Rachel Franks on An Uncommon Hangman
01
Jun
2023

In conversation: Rachel Franks on An Uncommon Hangman

Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they...
Practices of Contemporary Readers: Aesthetics, Morality, Self-Care
23
Feb
2023

Practices of Contemporary Readers: Aesthetics, Morality, Self-Care

How can we understand the practices of everyday readers in the twenty-first century? In this paper, I present a dynamic theoretical model of contemporary...
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy
24
Oct
2022

Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy

Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy Monday 24 October & Tuesday 25 October Sessions held at the RSSS Auditorium, ANU and...
“You’re too smart to be a publicist”: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
20
Oct
2022

“You’re too smart to be a publicist”: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity

The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with the ways in which publishing sector publicity staff are...

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