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
“You’re too smart to be a publicist”: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
Seminar
The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with the ways in which publishing sector publicity staff are perceived by their colleagues and peers, which in turn has a distinct knock-on effect on work practices and labour conditions. In this seminar, we…
Louis Klee "Australian Poets in the Countries of Others"
Seminar
When Australians travel overseas, they cross—in the words of an economist—‘into statistical anonymity’. The figures are speculative, but for more than two decades demographers have estimated that, ‘[o]n any given day, there are approximately one million Australians outside Australia’. Though mostly…
Andrew Nette Book Launch
Book launch
Follow the registration link for Zoom details Please join us for the book launch of Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback, the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications! Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian…