English, Screen Studies and Drama
The English program at the ANU
Housed in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, the English program at the ANU is one of the largest and most dynamic in Australia. Our researchers currently hold five prestigious Australian Research Council fellowships and our research programs have attracted over $5 000 000 in external funding in the last five years. We are known for our expertise in book history and reception studies; early modern studies; Australian literature; and the digital humanities. Our research underpins a vibrant undergraduate teaching program, covering literature in English from the post-medieval period to the contemporary, drama, poetry, gender studies, and creative writing, and fosters a thriving community of graduate students.
Teaching Areas
- English
- Creative writing
- Drama
- Gender Studies
- Screen Studies
Associated Journals
Australian Literary Studies Journal
Researchers and Research Areas of Expertise
Professor Katherine Bode: Computational literary studies; Australian literature; book history; literary theory
Dr Sarah-Jane Burton: Mid-twentieth century American poetry and society; New England (US) and Boston specific history, literature and culture; topographical and regional writing; literary and artistic groups and collectives; archival research and preservation.
Emeritus Professor Will Christie: British Romantic literature and culture; Public lecturing; Modern Scottish intellectual and cultural history; Cultural relations between Britain and China in the Qing dynasty; Poetry and poetics; Literary influence; Shakespeare in critical and cultural history; William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Jane Austen; Dylan Thomas
Dr Rebecca Clode: Australian Drama (history, practice, playwrights); Metatheatre (British and Australian focus); Contemporary European and American Drama
Dr Amelia Dale: Eighteenth-century literature and culture; gender and genre; book history; histories of the body; histories of the novel; histories of sexuality; quixotic narratives; women’s writing; Jane Austen; Romanticism; ecohistoricism; contemporary experimental writing
Dr Chloe Green: the medical humanities, life writing, contemporary experimental writing, affect theory, queer theory and gender studies; workplace fiction and autofiction.
Dr Claire Hansen: Shakespeare studies; early modern literature and drama; ecocriticism; place studies; environmental humanities; blue humanities; Shakespeare pedagogy; place-based learning; complexity theory; health humanities and medical humanities; the heart in early modern drama
Dr Kathryne (Kate) Flaherty: Early modern drama; Shakespeare in performance; the actress in the 19th century; also, theatrical touring, theatrical rivalry, civic disorder, political movements, and education as they intersect with Shakespeare in 19th and early 20th-century contexts.
Associate Professor Rosanne Kennedy: Trauma, memory and witnessing in Australia and transnational contexts; Holocaust studies; Stolen Generations; life-writing studies; feminist theory; cultural theory; literary theory; 19th and 20th century novel; women writers; law and literature; gender and modernity.
Associate Professor Julieanne Lamond: Australian literature and cultural history, 19th Century to present; Book history, readers and audiences; Gender and literary value; Literature and politics; Digital/data-rich approaches to reading history
Professor Kate Mitchell: neo-Victorian fiction; historical fiction; fiction and the politics of memory; 19th and 20th century literary and cultural history; Victorian fiction; theory and philosophy of history.
Dr Una McIlvenna: Early Modern Literature and History; Historical Balladry; Song Studies; Social History; Cultural History; Media History; Literature in French; European History and Culture; Comparative Literature Studies; History of Sexuality
Associate Professor Lucy Neave: Fiction writing and the writing process; Contemporary literature; Writing pedagogy
Dr Monique Rooney: Melodrama, US literature and television, theories of media and mediation, tastemaking, Australian literature, Ruth Park.
Professor Rosalind Smith: Early modern literature and culture, early modern women’s writing, gender and genre, material cultures, reception, attribution, marginalia, true crime, digital humanities
Dr Russell Smith: Modernist literature, especially Irish modernist writers Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce. Literary theory.
Dr Tyne Daile Sumner: Modern & Contemporary Literature, Poetry & Poetics, Australian Literature; Digital Humanities, Surveillance Studies, Cultural Analytics, Digital Culture; Facial-Recognition Technology, Critical Infrastructure Studies, Digital Ethics
Dr Millicent Weber: Audiobooks; Live and digital literary culture; Readerships and reading practices; Contemporary publishing; Cultural policy and creative industries discourse; Book and library history
Dr Bridget Vincent: 20th and 21st century literature; public apology in global anglophone writing, attention in modern poetry, ecocriticism, ekphrasis, the social function of close reading, representations of artificial intelligence in fiction, and literary manifestations of moral complicity.
Affiliates:
Professor Chris Danta: literary animal studies; literature and science; cybernetics; ecocriticism; AI and literature; continental philosophy; fable; science fiction; 19th, 20th, 21st century literature; J. M. Coetzee; Franz Kafka; H. G. Wells; Ted Chiang; Jeff VanderMeer.
Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens: Science in pop culture (including film, comics and street art); Cultural meanings of science; Science communication; Science and humour; Performance histories of mad scientists, clown robots and violent clowns; Joker Science; avant-gardes.
HDR Candidates
Jéssica Andrade Tolentino, “The poetics of childhood in contemporary Latin American literature”
Lucy Ann Boon, “Queer-daptation: A practice as research study of John Lyly's Galatea and William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure”
Sarah Boot-Guiver, “‘A writer these many years’: Uncovering James W. Mitchell and his historical context through a close reading of his novels alongside primary and secondary sources”
Jiangyue Chen
Galen Cuthbertson, “Machine Ethnography: Complex Statistical Pattern Recognition and the Study of Literature”
Scarlette Do, “Lands of Sorrow: Melancholic Nationalisms in Films about the Vietnam War”
Hamid Farahmandian, “Irish Orientalism: Iranian Eire of James Joyce”
David Fenderson, “Around the world, adrift and in place: geographic, virtual, and affective boundary-crossings and the search for experience across modern global space in the essay films of Chris Marker, Jonas Mekas, and Trinh T. Minh-ha”
Gavin Findlay
Patricia Frazis, “Ekphrasis and Music in Audiobooks”
Stephanie Gajewski, “A tepid ooze' no longer?: Contemporary Middlebrow-Quality Television Adaptation”
Sofya Gollan, “Silencing Deaf Stories: Hearing portrayals of Deafness and the use of Sign Language on Screen”
Shireen Hafesjee, “Representations of south, southeast and west Asia in historical and contemporary Australian literature”
Kathryn Hind, “Ugly feelings and passive states in the work/s of Gabriel Tallent and Anne Enright”
Neil Hogan
Zachary Karpinellison, “The Preservation and Circulation of Different Versions of Australian Films Held by the NFSA and in Personal Archives and Collections”
Sabine Kildea
Isobel Lavers, “Tracing representations of motherhood through memoir and life-writing”
Edmario Lesi, “An examination of HIV/AIDS-related shame in North American gay short fiction from the 1980s to 1990s”
Emmaline Monteith, “Online Survivor Testimonies as Tools for Social Change”
Miriam Potter, “Nature in Patrick White's Works, Aesthetic and Critical Approaches”
Emma Rayner, “Early Modern Women and Discourses of Civility”
Chloe Riley
Sophie Tallis, “Girlhood Bodies on French Screens: From Monstrous Feminine to Liminal Resistance”
Barbara Taylor, “Magic, Materiality, and (Re)enchantment in Shakespearean Romance”
Hannah Upton, “Women’s Marginalia and the Politics of Early Modern Female Reading Practices”
Amy Walters, “Unstable Ground: Tracing a Gothic Lineage in Maggie O'Farrell's Fiction”
Siall Waterbright, “Taking Pains: The aesthetics of child removal”
Geordie Williamson, “Romantic Antipodes”
Sally Zwartz, “‘More than just a story’: witnessing survivor testimony at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse”
Centres
Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC)
Centre for Early Modern Studies
Networks and Clusters
Australian University Heads of English (AUHE)
Blue Humanities Lab
Cultures of Screen, Performance & Print Network
Heart of the Matter research group
International Consortium of Centres for Early Modern Studies
