Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. From the radical politics and poetic experimentalism of Kargun (1980) to the complex poetics of address in Harvest Lingo (2022), Wakka Wakka poet Lionel Fogarty…
Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar
Book launch
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 poets, editor of the Trans-Tasman literary magazine Snorkel, author of Furious Triangle (Puncher & Wattman, 2011), Wings (Cordite, 2021)…
Postcolonialism in Australian Literature: The Case of Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
Seminar
This seminar brings together postcolonial literary theory and contemporary political theory. Students of Australian politics tend to separate political and literary theory, preferring to leave literary theory to experts in Australian and comparative literature. My aim here is to draw the two modes…
Dymphna Cusack’s resourceful melodrama: Carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Southern Steel (1953)
Seminar
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 much Western literature. Writers, he said, had largely failed to narrate the sources and effects of the energy that powers the modern world.…
In conversation: Rachel Franks on An Uncommon Hangman
Seminar
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 toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do the dirty work of the authorities. Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard used to be a household…
Practices of Contemporary Readers: Aesthetics, Morality, Self-Care
Seminar
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 reading based on qualitative research with readers, in order to drive forward debates about the significance of recreational reading. I argue…
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy
Conference
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy Monday 24 October & Tuesday 25 October Sessions held at the RSSS Auditorium, ANU and Online. Access the program