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Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the department of English at the Australian National University. We're currently ranked 28 in the QS Global Rankings! 🎉🎉🎉
Please follow us to find out about all the exciting things we’re up to! 😎
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Please follow us to find out about all the exciting things we’re up to! 😎
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A HUGE congrats to ANU English's very own @rossmith.bsky.social and @claireghansen.bsky.social on their recent ARC Discovery grant success! 'Handwritten' promises to change how we think about the significance, value & power of writing by hand, then and now - congrats to the dream team! 🥳 🥳 🥳
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A HUGE congrats to ANU English's very own @rossmith.bsky.social and @claireghansen.bsky.social on their recent ARC Discovery grant success! 'Handwritten' promises to change how we think about the significance, value & power of writing by hand, then and now - congrats to the dream team! 🥳 🥳 🥳
🥳 HUGE congrats to our own @rossmith.bsky.social who with Trisha Pender just won the Digital Scholarship, New Media & Art award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for their Encyclopedia project, 5 years in the making! 🥳
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Here's the judges' comments:
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Here's the judges' comments:
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
🥳 HUGE congrats to our own @rossmith.bsky.social who with Trisha Pender just won the Digital Scholarship, New Media & Art award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for their Encyclopedia project, 5 years in the making! 🥳
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Here's the judges' comments:
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Here's the judges' comments:
Day 3 of our staff members' choice of Top 10 Books of the 21st century, & today it's the turn of Associate Professor of English Julieanne Lamond. That's 2 votes so far for Flamethrowers! Join in as ABC Radio National finds the nation's fave books of the last 25 years: www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Day 3 of our staff members' choice of Top 10 Books of the 21st century, & today it's the turn of Associate Professor of English Julieanne Lamond. That's 2 votes so far for Flamethrowers! Join in as ABC Radio National finds the nation's fave books of the last 25 years: www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
Day 2 of posting ANU English's staff lists of Top 10 Books of the last 25 years, & today it's the turn of Lecturer Chloe Green! Spot any you love too? You can join in the fun as ABC Radio National tries to find the nation's favourite books of the 21st century so far: www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
September 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Day 2 of posting ANU English's staff lists of Top 10 Books of the last 25 years, & today it's the turn of Lecturer Chloe Green! Spot any you love too? You can join in the fun as ABC Radio National tries to find the nation's favourite books of the 21st century so far: www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
So first up on @englishanu.bsky.social's staff choices of Top 10 Books of the last 25 years is Senior Lecturer @unamcilvenna.bsky.social! Follow along to find out what the top choices are of the experts who teach this stuff for a living! And create your own list at www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 AM
So first up on @englishanu.bsky.social's staff choices of Top 10 Books of the last 25 years is Senior Lecturer @unamcilvenna.bsky.social! Follow along to find out what the top choices are of the experts who teach this stuff for a living! And create your own list at www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
Love books? Which is your favourite of the century so far? Here at ANU English we're joining ABC Radio National in their poll to find the nation's fave books of the last 25 years. Each day we'll post the Top 10 List of a member of our dept. You can join in the fun here
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Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National
Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Love books? Which is your favourite of the century so far? Here at ANU English we're joining ABC Radio National in their poll to find the nation's fave books of the last 25 years. Each day we'll post the Top 10 List of a member of our dept. You can join in the fun here
www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
Publication! ANU English's own Rosanne Kennedy and her PhD student Emmaline Montieth have recently published an open-access article exploring the 'Teach Us Consent' platform as part of a special issue on Lives, Selves, Media & #MeToo in
a/b auto/biography studies:
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a/b auto/biography studies:
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September 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Publication! ANU English's own Rosanne Kennedy and her PhD student Emmaline Montieth have recently published an open-access article exploring the 'Teach Us Consent' platform as part of a special issue on Lives, Selves, Media & #MeToo in
a/b auto/biography studies:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
a/b auto/biography studies:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
ANU English's own @lucyneave.bsky.social has a new book out: 'Infrastructures of Crisis in Global 21st-Century Literature'
Now available for pre-order with @edinburghup.bsky.social Be sure to use discount code NEW30 to get 30% off!
Congrats Lucy! 🥳
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Now available for pre-order with @edinburghup.bsky.social Be sure to use discount code NEW30 to get 30% off!
Congrats Lucy! 🥳
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-infrast...
Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature
Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature
edinburghuniversitypress.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
ANU English's own @lucyneave.bsky.social has a new book out: 'Infrastructures of Crisis in Global 21st-Century Literature'
Now available for pre-order with @edinburghup.bsky.social Be sure to use discount code NEW30 to get 30% off!
Congrats Lucy! 🥳
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-infrast...
Now available for pre-order with @edinburghup.bsky.social Be sure to use discount code NEW30 to get 30% off!
Congrats Lucy! 🥳
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-infrast...
ANU English's own @becclode.bsky.social talked to award-winning Palawa writer & dramaturg Dylan Van Den Berg about his adaptation of the Aussie classic The Chosen Vessel, Gothic genre & Aboriginal gothic theatre, & his PhD. Listen to their talk here:
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GETTING TO KNOW: PLAYWRIGHT DYLAN VAN DEN BERG IN CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA CLODE
Dylan Van Den Berg is an award-winning Palawa writer and dramaturg from the northeast of Lutruwita/Tasmania, with family connections to the Bass Strait Islands where his great-grandmother was born.…
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August 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
ANU English's own @becclode.bsky.social talked to award-winning Palawa writer & dramaturg Dylan Van Den Berg about his adaptation of the Aussie classic The Chosen Vessel, Gothic genre & Aboriginal gothic theatre, & his PhD. Listen to their talk here:
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Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates
The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined.
#RepealJRG
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The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined.
#RepealJRG
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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates
The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined.
#RepealJRG
theconversation.com/top-australi...
The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined.
#RepealJRG
theconversation.com/top-australi...
This sounds amazing: a global get-together of Shakespeare experts on the topic of environmental justice! Organised by ANU English's Claire Hansen. Register here:
Interested in #Shakespeare & environmental justice? Register (free!) to join the Globe4Globe 2025 Symposium: online, 12-13 Sep 2025. An incredible line-up of speakers from across the globe, supported by Shakespeare's Globe & ANU's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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July 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This sounds amazing: a global get-together of Shakespeare experts on the topic of environmental justice! Organised by ANU English's Claire Hansen. Register here:
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This is today at 5pm! Don't forget to register now at the link below, and get ready for some ballad-singing! 🎶
A reminder that I'm presenting at this with Ruby Lowe on Thurs 24 July, 5pm Melb time:
'Hearing the News - how ballad singers, pampheteers and orators took the news to the people in the pre-modern world' It's free and online - book here:
www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_july_202...
'Hearing the News - how ballad singers, pampheteers and orators took the news to the people in the pre-modern world' It's free and online - book here:
www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_july_202...
July 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is today at 5pm! Don't forget to register now at the link below, and get ready for some ballad-singing! 🎶
Publication klaxon! 🎺
And it's one of our students! ANU English's own Hamid Famahmandian, a PhD student supervised by Russell Smith, catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 🤯. Congrats Hamid! 🥳
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And it's one of our students! ANU English's own Hamid Famahmandian, a PhD student supervised by Russell Smith, catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 🤯. Congrats Hamid! 🥳
www.routledge.com/Iran-in-Finn...
Iran in Finnegans Wake
Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This book is an invaluable re...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Publication klaxon! 🎺
And it's one of our students! ANU English's own Hamid Famahmandian, a PhD student supervised by Russell Smith, catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 🤯. Congrats Hamid! 🥳
www.routledge.com/Iran-in-Finn...
And it's one of our students! ANU English's own Hamid Famahmandian, a PhD student supervised by Russell Smith, catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 🤯. Congrats Hamid! 🥳
www.routledge.com/Iran-in-Finn...
Our own Rosanne Kennedy has a new chapter out with ANU historian Ben Silverstein in a new volume of essays on deep history: “Language Has Country: Memory, Transmission and Sovereignty in Tara Jane Winch’s The Yield” .
Check it out here:
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Congrats Rosanne and Ben!
Check it out here:
unsw.press/books/deep-h...
Congrats Rosanne and Ben!
July 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Our own Rosanne Kennedy has a new chapter out with ANU historian Ben Silverstein in a new volume of essays on deep history: “Language Has Country: Memory, Transmission and Sovereignty in Tara Jane Winch’s The Yield” .
Check it out here:
unsw.press/books/deep-h...
Congrats Rosanne and Ben!
Check it out here:
unsw.press/books/deep-h...
Congrats Rosanne and Ben!
A special issue of the Sidney Journal celebrating the incredible career of Professor Mary Ellen Lamb has been published, and our own @rossmith.bsky.social has an article in it!
Rosalind Smith, “Love in the Margins,” Special Issue in Honor of Mary Ellen Lamb, Sidney Journal 43.1-2 (2025), 187-207
Rosalind Smith, “Love in the Margins,” Special Issue in Honor of Mary Ellen Lamb, Sidney Journal 43.1-2 (2025), 187-207
July 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
A special issue of the Sidney Journal celebrating the incredible career of Professor Mary Ellen Lamb has been published, and our own @rossmith.bsky.social has an article in it!
Rosalind Smith, “Love in the Margins,” Special Issue in Honor of Mary Ellen Lamb, Sidney Journal 43.1-2 (2025), 187-207
Rosalind Smith, “Love in the Margins,” Special Issue in Honor of Mary Ellen Lamb, Sidney Journal 43.1-2 (2025), 187-207
Do our hearts really 'break'? Shakespeare thought so.
Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here:
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Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear
Shakespeare’s characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare’s canon in dialogue with twenty-first-century med...
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June 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Do our hearts really 'break'? Shakespeare thought so.
Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our amazing leader @rossmith.bsky.social has been awarded the very competitive Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at the Bodleian Library for her work on early modern women’s marginalia! She’ll be there for Trinity term 2026. Congrats Ros! 🥳 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
June 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Our amazing leader @rossmith.bsky.social has been awarded the very competitive Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at the Bodleian Library for her work on early modern women’s marginalia! She’ll be there for Trinity term 2026. Congrats Ros! 🥳 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Tomorrow (5 June, 1-2pm AEST) I'm giving another talk on 'Disaster, Poverty, and Marginalised Languages in Printed News Ballads' at the ACU IHSS Research Seminar, MEL-412-1-01, Arts Precinct, 36-38 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and online via Teams. Hit me up if you need the link! 🎶 🎶 🎶
June 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Tomorrow (5 June, 1-2pm AEST) I'm giving another talk on 'Disaster, Poverty, and Marginalised Languages in Printed News Ballads' at the ACU IHSS Research Seminar, MEL-412-1-01, Arts Precinct, 36-38 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and online via Teams. Hit me up if you need the link! 🎶 🎶 🎶
Join Dr Kate Flaherty (ANU English) & Associate Director of Bell Shakespeare James Evans for a screening & discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet at the National Film & Sound Archive 22 Jun 1pm.
Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2)
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Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2)
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Book Club: Romeo + Juliet
The star-crossed lovers find themselves in a gun-fuelled urban war in Baz Luhrmann’s high-energy version.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Join Dr Kate Flaherty (ANU English) & Associate Director of Bell Shakespeare James Evans for a screening & discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet at the National Film & Sound Archive 22 Jun 1pm.
Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2)
tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Book-...
Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2)
tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Book-...
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Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film
Textual Practice
Elemental Melodrama. Guest Editors: Monique Rooney, Gillian Russell and Stefan Solomon. Volume 39, Issue 3 of Textual Practice
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March 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film
As Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice, @englishanu.bsky.social's Lucy Neave explores how this innovative novel challenges how fiction usually works:
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Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize with a genre-bending questioning of art and expectation
Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.
theconversation.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
As Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice, @englishanu.bsky.social's Lucy Neave explores how this innovative novel challenges how fiction usually works:
theconversation.com/michelle-de-...
theconversation.com/michelle-de-...
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Less than 2 weeks until our conference CFP officially closes on 6th June!
📣 Digital Archipelagos
📣 Digital Humanities Australasia Conference (DHA25)
📣 2-5 December
📣 Australian National University, Canberra
Submissions here: dha25.org
📣 Digital Archipelagos
📣 Digital Humanities Australasia Conference (DHA25)
📣 2-5 December
📣 Australian National University, Canberra
Submissions here: dha25.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Less than 2 weeks until our conference CFP officially closes on 6th June!
📣 Digital Archipelagos
📣 Digital Humanities Australasia Conference (DHA25)
📣 2-5 December
📣 Australian National University, Canberra
Submissions here: dha25.org
📣 Digital Archipelagos
📣 Digital Humanities Australasia Conference (DHA25)
📣 2-5 December
📣 Australian National University, Canberra
Submissions here: dha25.org
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I'll be presenting some new work at this year's American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference in our session on 'Large Language Models and Literature': www.acla.org/virtual-conf...
Large Language Models and Literature | American Comparative Literature Association
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May 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I'll be presenting some new work at this year's American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference in our session on 'Large Language Models and Literature': www.acla.org/virtual-conf...
Congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's own Rosanne Kennedy, who has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch University, for Jan-June 2026! stias.ac.za Congratulations Rosanne! 🥳
May 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's own Rosanne Kennedy, who has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch University, for Jan-June 2026! stias.ac.za Congratulations Rosanne! 🥳
A huge congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's own Emmaline Monteith, who has just been awarded a prestigious Yale-ANU Fox Fellowship to spend 9 months at Yale! Her project is on digital testimonial activism - congrats Emmaline! 🥳
macmillan.yale.edu/foxfellowship
@yalefoxfellowship.bsky.social
macmillan.yale.edu/foxfellowship
@yalefoxfellowship.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A huge congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's own Emmaline Monteith, who has just been awarded a prestigious Yale-ANU Fox Fellowship to spend 9 months at Yale! Her project is on digital testimonial activism - congrats Emmaline! 🥳
macmillan.yale.edu/foxfellowship
@yalefoxfellowship.bsky.social
macmillan.yale.edu/foxfellowship
@yalefoxfellowship.bsky.social