Semester 2, 2026
The SLLL English Seminar Series is convened by Monique Rooney (monique.rooney@anu.edu.au)
For Semester 2-2026, the seminar series will be held in person only in the RSSS Lectorial 1 (room 1.21) - unless indicated otherwise, on Thursdays (fortnightly), from 1 to 2 pm. The scheduled dates are:
- Thursday 16 July
- Thursday 30 July
- Thursday 13 August
- Thursday 27 August
- Thursday 24 Sept
- Thursday 8 October
- Thursday 22 October
Contact
- Monique Rooney
Upcoming Events
Speaking Animals, Talking Books: From Radio Play to Digital Download
Monique Rooney (ANU)
Ruth Park’s The Muddleheaded Wombat is widely known today through the illustrated children’s books first published in the 1960s. Wombat first reached…
Past Events
Shameful Material: HIV/AIDS and Shame in North American Gay Short Fiction from the 1980s to 1990s
Edmario Lesi (ANU)
North American gay short fiction from the 1980s to 1990s offers insight into the underexamined ways that shame is relieved and communicated…
'Each book, in a word, carries a history': New Insights from First Fleet Association Copies
Dr Nicholas A. Sparks (National Gallery of Australia ~ ANU)
The First Fleet sailed from England on 13 May 1787, carrying more than 1,500 people. What books they read, owned or carried with them remains a…
“Something about this job and many other kinds of jobs is essentially rotten”: Autofiction in the Amazon Fulfilment Centre
Dr Josh Jewell (University of Exeter), Dr Chloe Green (ANU)
In German novelist Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate (translated into English in 2018), the author details her time working as a temporary labourer…