Monique Rooney
@moniquerooney.bsky.social
teaching US literature, television and new media at the Australian National University. Writing contemporary ‘brow’ aesthetics and a biography of Ruth Park. https://anu-au.academia.edu/moniquerooney and https://substack.com/@moniquerooney
I’ve written a short piece on Substack about how my biography of Ruth Park began. open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...
How the Biography Began
On Permission, Process, and Not Boring the Reader
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I’ve written a short piece on Substack about how my biography of Ruth Park began. open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...
Next week I’ll be sharing online work from my Ruth Park biography-in-progress: Final CALC seminar for the year — Thurs 6 Nov, 4–5.30 pm (AEDT)
Hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @ ANU.
More info: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...
For Zoom details: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au
Hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @ ANU.
More info: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...
For Zoom details: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Next week I’ll be sharing online work from my Ruth Park biography-in-progress: Final CALC seminar for the year — Thurs 6 Nov, 4–5.30 pm (AEDT)
Hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @ ANU.
More info: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...
For Zoom details: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au
Hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @ ANU.
More info: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...
For Zoom details: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au
Recordings of our two recent @calc-anu.bsky.social seminars are now available
Ken Gelder on unhomely Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kv0... and
@jackquirk.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane youtu.be/eKFwHbxy2m4?...
Terrific sessions— enjoy
Ken Gelder on unhomely Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kv0... and
@jackquirk.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane youtu.be/eKFwHbxy2m4?...
Terrific sessions— enjoy
Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius
YouTube video by Arts & Social Sciences at ANU
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Recordings of our two recent @calc-anu.bsky.social seminars are now available
Ken Gelder on unhomely Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kv0... and
@jackquirk.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane youtu.be/eKFwHbxy2m4?...
Terrific sessions— enjoy
Ken Gelder on unhomely Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kv0... and
@jackquirk.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane youtu.be/eKFwHbxy2m4?...
Terrific sessions— enjoy
Reposted by Monique Rooney
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
www.tandfonline.com
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
Reposted by Monique Rooney
Congratulations to ANU English's Una McIlvenna, who has been awarded a competitive research travel grant to the Lewis Walpole Library! Congrats Una! 💪
Thrilled to announce that I’ve won a Lewis Walpole Library Travel Grant which will fund two weeks research in this beautiful library in Connecticut! Looking forward to exploring their amazing collections of 18th-century political ballads 🎶🎵
walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
February 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Congratulations to ANU English's Una McIlvenna, who has been awarded a competitive research travel grant to the Lewis Walpole Library! Congrats Una! 💪
Reposted by Monique Rooney
The first issue of the 18C literature journal The Shandean is out! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...
Amelia Dale (ANU English) is part of an int'l editorial team, with Jakub Lipski & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki), Helen Williams (Northumbria) & Alexander Hobday (Cambridge)
Amelia Dale (ANU English) is part of an int'l editorial team, with Jakub Lipski & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki), Helen Williams (Northumbria) & Alexander Hobday (Cambridge)
February 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The first issue of the 18C literature journal The Shandean is out! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...
Amelia Dale (ANU English) is part of an int'l editorial team, with Jakub Lipski & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki), Helen Williams (Northumbria) & Alexander Hobday (Cambridge)
Amelia Dale (ANU English) is part of an int'l editorial team, with Jakub Lipski & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki), Helen Williams (Northumbria) & Alexander Hobday (Cambridge)
Reposted by Monique Rooney
So proud that ANU English's @tynedaile.bsky.social has been voted by the Aus Academy of Humanities as a Rising Star! humanities.org.au/power-of-the... Tyne is a DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities on a project about the relationship between modern fiction & surveillance. Congrats Tyne! 🥳
February 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So proud that ANU English's @tynedaile.bsky.social has been voted by the Aus Academy of Humanities as a Rising Star! humanities.org.au/power-of-the... Tyne is a DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities on a project about the relationship between modern fiction & surveillance. Congrats Tyne! 🥳
Reposted by Monique Rooney
Publication klaxon 🎺: Bridget Vincent of ANU English has a recent article out in Modern Fiction Studies: "Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay", vol. 70 no. 3.
Congratulations Bridget! 🥳 🥳 🥳
muse.jhu.edu/article/942200
Congratulations Bridget! 🥳 🥳 🥳
muse.jhu.edu/article/942200
February 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Publication klaxon 🎺: Bridget Vincent of ANU English has a recent article out in Modern Fiction Studies: "Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay", vol. 70 no. 3.
Congratulations Bridget! 🥳 🥳 🥳
muse.jhu.edu/article/942200
Congratulations Bridget! 🥳 🥳 🥳
muse.jhu.edu/article/942200
I’m pleased to have been shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for my proposed biography: A Medium Through Which Others May See: The Life and Legacy of Ruth Park.
January 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I’m pleased to have been shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for my proposed biography: A Medium Through Which Others May See: The Life and Legacy of Ruth Park.
You can register either through the QR code or the link in the first comment.
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
You can register either through the QR code or the link in the first comment.
REMINDER: CALC online event tomorrow! Mark McGurl (Stanford) & Joseph Steinberg (UWA) discuss Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon in relation to smaller-scale contexts like Australia. Email: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.
Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....
Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Join Joseph Steinberg for a conversation with Mark McGurl
slll.cass.anu.edu.au
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
REMINDER: CALC online event tomorrow! Mark McGurl (Stanford) & Joseph Steinberg (UWA) discuss Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon in relation to smaller-scale contexts like Australia. Email: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.
Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....
Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....
All welcome this Thursday (November 21) for a Zoom seminar featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia). Contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link. Full details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...
November 18, 2024 at 4:29 AM
All welcome this Thursday (November 21) for a Zoom seminar featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia). Contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link. Full details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...
Ruth Park was haunted by the spectre of Eve Langley, author of The Pea Pickers (originally titled The Australian Peasant). I wrote about Park, Langley, and the idea of literary community here: open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...
Reaping Her Words in Solitariness:
Ruth Park, Eve Langley and Literary Un-Community
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Ruth Park was haunted by the spectre of Eve Langley, author of The Pea Pickers (originally titled The Australian Peasant). I wrote about Park, Langley, and the idea of literary community here: open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...
Reposted by Monique Rooney
UNSW ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR
Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story"
Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus
No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!
Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story"
Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus
No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!
November 18, 2024 at 12:26 AM
UNSW ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR
Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story"
Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus
No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!
Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story"
Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus
No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!
I’ve started a Substack! I’ll be writing about my two current projects: Brow Network, which explores how “taste” is changing in a world of dissolving hierarchies, and my biography-in-progress of the brilliant Pacific region writer Ruth Park. Follow along here: substack.com/@moniquerooney.
Monique Rooney | Substack
I’m a literary studies scholar and writer at ANU. I am working ontwo projects: Brow Network (Iowa UP) and a biography of Ruth Park. On Substack, I share research, writing-in-progress, and thoughts on ...
substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:17 AM
I’ve started a Substack! I’ll be writing about my two current projects: Brow Network, which explores how “taste” is changing in a world of dissolving hierarchies, and my biography-in-progress of the brilliant Pacific region writer Ruth Park. Follow along here: substack.com/@moniquerooney.
All welcome to an online event hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures, featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia)
21 November 2024, 4.30pm – 6pm AEST, contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link.
21 November 2024, 4.30pm – 6pm AEST, contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link.
November 15, 2024 at 8:43 AM
All welcome to an online event hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures, featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia)
21 November 2024, 4.30pm – 6pm AEST, contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link.
21 November 2024, 4.30pm – 6pm AEST, contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link.
📢 Announcing the first conference on Ruth Park, ANU, Feb 14-16! Papers covering topics from sex and gender in her writing to “celtic colonialsm,” themes of shame, pride, and more! Attend online or in-person: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...
February 8, 2024 at 12:01 AM
📢 Announcing the first conference on Ruth Park, ANU, Feb 14-16! Papers covering topics from sex and gender in her writing to “celtic colonialsm,” themes of shame, pride, and more! Attend online or in-person: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...
Fiona Kelly McGregor is delivering the ASAL Patron’s lecture on Wednesday February 14, 5-7pm. This lecture is part of the @ASAustLit mini-conference on Ruth Park c/o @CopyrightAgency, @ANU_RSHA and @ANUslll. Register for in person or zoom attendance. slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...
January 25, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Fiona Kelly McGregor is delivering the ASAL Patron’s lecture on Wednesday February 14, 5-7pm. This lecture is part of the @ASAustLit mini-conference on Ruth Park c/o @CopyrightAgency, @ANU_RSHA and @ANUslll. Register for in person or zoom attendance. slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...
ChatGPT and other text generators have become a condition of contemporary writing. A feature of any writing process is the temporary stepping away from what writing. Something invariably happens, opens up, is generated at such a moment. But ChatGPT cannot step away from and then return to itself.
December 7, 2023 at 8:23 PM
ChatGPT and other text generators have become a condition of contemporary writing. A feature of any writing process is the temporary stepping away from what writing. Something invariably happens, opens up, is generated at such a moment. But ChatGPT cannot step away from and then return to itself.
I enjoyed Susanna Fogel’s “Cat Person” (2023). It’s interesting because the film’s Margot seems to be a composite of author Kristen Roupenian’s Margot, in the story published in the New Yorker, and the real “Margot” who subsequently told her story in a piece published in Slate. And it works.
November 28, 2023 at 7:28 PM
I enjoyed Susanna Fogel’s “Cat Person” (2023). It’s interesting because the film’s Margot seems to be a composite of author Kristen Roupenian’s Margot, in the story published in the New Yorker, and the real “Margot” who subsequently told her story in a piece published in Slate. And it works.
“My mother is as close to me, and as hidden from me, as my own face …”. This closing sentence of the Prologue to Davidson’s book reminds me of words that I read somewhere … perhaps in one of Susan Stewart’s books (?) … about how we try but never do properly see our own face.
November 25, 2023 at 8:08 PM
“My mother is as close to me, and as hidden from me, as my own face …”. This closing sentence of the Prologue to Davidson’s book reminds me of words that I read somewhere … perhaps in one of Susan Stewart’s books (?) … about how we try but never do properly see our own face.
a beautiful sign made and installed by my neighbours in Wybalena Grove located in the “bush capital” of Canberra, Australia.
November 19, 2023 at 7:39 PM
a beautiful sign made and installed by my neighbours in Wybalena Grove located in the “bush capital” of Canberra, Australia.
JOB: 3-Year position as Lecturer in English and Media or Screen Studies
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external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Lecturer in English and Media Studies, School of Humanities & Social Sciences - UNSW Canberra
Lecturer in English and Media Studies
Employment type: Full time, 35hrs
Duration: Fixed term* for a period of up to 3 years
Remuneration: Level B from $119,440 - $140,802 plus 17% Superannuation�...
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November 16, 2023 at 6:57 AM
JOB: 3-Year position as Lecturer in English and Media or Screen Studies
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
JOB. Associate Professor (in Australia a senior position) in Contemporary and / or Popular Literature. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...
Details : Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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November 16, 2023 at 6:52 AM
JOB. Associate Professor (in Australia a senior position) in Contemporary and / or Popular Literature. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...