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
'Marlow’s plays & poems are totally vanished’: Charles Lamb’s recuperation of Christopher Marlowe in "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare" (1808).
Professor Emerita Gillian Russell (University of York, UK), Emeritus Professor Paul Salzman (La Trobe University)
In 1804 Charles Lamb wrote to William Wordsworth that old editions of the plays and poems of Christopher Marlowe were now unobtainable: they had…
Past 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…
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…