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We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library!
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
“On the brow of the sea”—Race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello | Events | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Join Dr Patricia Akhimie, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, as she discusses race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library!
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library!
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
“On the brow of the sea”—Race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello | Events | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Join Dr Patricia Akhimie, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, as she discusses race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library!
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
Congratulations Nikki!
Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Congratulations Nikki!
One of the great things about the ELCC programme is that we have AMAZING emeritus professors.
Here is Professor Heidi Thomson in The Spinoff, talking about Austen thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
Here is Professor Heidi Thomson in The Spinoff, talking about Austen thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
Jane Austen’s terrible parents
'Would you want General Tilney to be your daddy?'
thespinoff.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
One of the great things about the ELCC programme is that we have AMAZING emeritus professors.
Here is Professor Heidi Thomson in The Spinoff, talking about Austen thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
Here is Professor Heidi Thomson in The Spinoff, talking about Austen thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
Charles Ferrall will be in Unity Books tomorrow (Tues 21) speaking to his recently released book South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He will be in conversation with Michalia Arathimos.
⛵ Free event–all welcome!
⛵ 21 October, 12:30–1:15pm
⛵ Unity Books Wellington
⛵ Free event–all welcome!
⛵ 21 October, 12:30–1:15pm
⛵ Unity Books Wellington
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Charles Ferrall will be in Unity Books tomorrow (Tues 21) speaking to his recently released book South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He will be in conversation with Michalia Arathimos.
⛵ Free event–all welcome!
⛵ 21 October, 12:30–1:15pm
⛵ Unity Books Wellington
⛵ Free event–all welcome!
⛵ 21 October, 12:30–1:15pm
⛵ Unity Books Wellington
If you're in Ōtautahi this week, come along and hear ELCC's Anna Jackson in this fabulous lineup!
Poetry in Performance / Take 3 / Thursday 16 Oct with Anna Jackson, Juanita Hepi, and Erik Kennedy + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective.
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-23-o...
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-23-o...
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you're in Ōtautahi this week, come along and hear ELCC's Anna Jackson in this fabulous lineup!
We seem to be awash in book launches here at ELCC! Please join us on 24 October for "Te Whāriki," edited by Dougal McNeill, Anna Jackson, and Robert Sullivan
October 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
We seem to be awash in book launches here at ELCC! Please join us on 24 October for "Te Whāriki," edited by Dougal McNeill, Anna Jackson, and Robert Sullivan
Daylight saving is here, it feels like spring, maybe you should grab a copy of the Sunday Star Times and catch up on what the ELCC programme's poet and lecturer Anna Jackson has been reading? www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...
What I’m Reading: Anna Jackson
As we get into spring, look back at poet Anna Jackson’s winter reading list.
www.thepost.co.nz
September 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Daylight saving is here, it feels like spring, maybe you should grab a copy of the Sunday Star Times and catch up on what the ELCC programme's poet and lecturer Anna Jackson has been reading? www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...
Please join the ELCC programme for the launch of Charles Ferrall's new book this Thursday at Unity! www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
Thursday September 18th, 6pmIn-store at Unity Books WELLINGTONBook Launch: South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Charles Ferrall
www.unitybooks.co.nz
September 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Please join the ELCC programme for the launch of Charles Ferrall's new book this Thursday at Unity! www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
Congratulations to our very own Charles Ferrall on his new book! It's being launched at Unity Books on Thurs 18 Sept - hope to see you there
Happy publication day to Charles Ferrall! South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration is out today.
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/sou...
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/sou...
September 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Congratulations to our very own Charles Ferrall on his new book! It's being launched at Unity Books on Thurs 18 Sept - hope to see you there
Anna Jackson's new book reviewed on Nine to Noon www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Book review: Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts
Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Anna Jackson's new book reviewed on Nine to Noon www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
The ELCC programme's Anna Jackson and Dougal McNeill, along with their co-editor Robert Sullivan, have a new book coming soon!
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz
July 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The ELCC programme's Anna Jackson and Dougal McNeill, along with their co-editor Robert Sullivan, have a new book coming soon!
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/
Last call, THW folks. Anyone in humanities disciplines interested in the 18th or early nineteenth century and its legacies, please send us an abstract!
FINAL REMINDER: *JULY 1* deadline for abstracts for the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith conference in Wellington, New Zealand
The theme is "Living / Building" w/ keynotes Manu Samriti Chander, Karen Harvey, and Ngarino Ellis ⭐
CFP👇
www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
The theme is "Living / Building" w/ keynotes Manu Samriti Chander, Karen Harvey, and Ngarino Ellis ⭐
CFP👇
www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
Living / Building—A joint RSAA & David Nichol Smith Conference | Te Wāhanga Aronui / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Exploring eighteenth-century connections in today’s world.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
June 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Last call, THW folks. Anyone in humanities disciplines interested in the 18th or early nineteenth century and its legacies, please send us an abstract!
It's been a pleasure!
Leaving my little office at Te Herenga Waka today. Thanks for having me this semester @elccprogramme.bsky.social And thanks to my wonderful students.
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It's been a pleasure!
We'll be celebrating Anna Jackson's new book of poems tonight at Unity!
(PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July)
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
(PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July)
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
We're delighted to host the launch of Anna Jackson's new book, Terrier, Worrier, published by Auckland University Press.
www.unitybooks.co.nz
June 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We'll be celebrating Anna Jackson's new book of poems tonight at Unity!
(PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July)
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
(PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July)
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
Congratulations to former ELCC PhD students Lindsay Hayasaka (nee Morton) and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, who have won the 2025 Susan L Greenberg Prize for the best research paper at the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies)!
We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️
We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️
June 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Congratulations to former ELCC PhD students Lindsay Hayasaka (nee Morton) and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, who have won the 2025 Susan L Greenberg Prize for the best research paper at the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies)!
We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️
We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️
Congratulations to Dougal McNeill, whose book "Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature" has been short-listed for the Walter McRae Russell Award for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject!
www.asal.org.au/awards/walte...
www.asal.org.au/awards/walte...
May 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Congratulations to Dougal McNeill, whose book "Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature" has been short-listed for the Walter McRae Russell Award for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject!
www.asal.org.au/awards/walte...
www.asal.org.au/awards/walte...
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What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed novel The Mires, currently shortlisted for the Ockhams. You can hear Tina talk about the novel with @dougalmcneill.bsky.social in our Writers on Mondays podcast.
He Pātaka—The House of Fiction: Tina Makereti
What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed 2024 novel, The Mires. Described by Shankari Chandran as a …
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April 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed novel The Mires, currently shortlisted for the Ockhams. You can hear Tina talk about the novel with @dougalmcneill.bsky.social in our Writers on Mondays podcast.
More news about an upcoming conference, hosted by the ELCC programme, focusing on 18th-century & Romantic literature, history, & culture.
Colleagues & students from across THW are welcome to attend and/or present, if you have a paper on an 18th or early 19thC topic www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
Colleagues & students from across THW are welcome to attend and/or present, if you have a paper on an 18th or early 19thC topic www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
And equally delighted to announce our 2nd keynote for our joint 18C and Romantic studies conference this November in Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), Professor Karen Harvey (Birmingham). You can learn more about Karen's work here www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...
More details soon!
More details soon!
March 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
More news about an upcoming conference, hosted by the ELCC programme, focusing on 18th-century & Romantic literature, history, & culture.
Colleagues & students from across THW are welcome to attend and/or present, if you have a paper on an 18th or early 19thC topic www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
Colleagues & students from across THW are welcome to attend and/or present, if you have a paper on an 18th or early 19thC topic www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
Congratulations @amymarguerite.bsky.social 🎉
In 2022 @amymarguerite.bsky.social spent a lot of time writing poems for her MA folio in @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social's Mount Street cemetery-on-campus (never quite thought of it that way before) - now here's the book with the evidence! @elccprogramme.bsky.social @flewoutof.bsky.social
I loved this poem and this entire book thespinoff.co.nz/books/26-02-...
March 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Congratulations @amymarguerite.bsky.social 🎉
ELCC lecturer and poet Anna Jackson’s summer reading highlights 👇☀️📚
Autumn! And I have posted up my list of summer reading highlights. www.annajackson.nz/enthusiasms....
(Autumn reading I am in the middle of: Autumn, by Knausgaard, Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell, Loving Sylvia Plath, by Emily Van Duyne, Dear Knausgaard, by Kim Adrian, all wonderful.)
(Autumn reading I am in the middle of: Autumn, by Knausgaard, Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell, Loving Sylvia Plath, by Emily Van Duyne, Dear Knausgaard, by Kim Adrian, all wonderful.)
March 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ELCC lecturer and poet Anna Jackson’s summer reading highlights 👇☀️📚
We're excited to be hosting this conference later in 2025!
There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities
There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities
So pleased to announce our 1st keynote for the joint 18C & Romantic studies conference that we're hosting in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, this November....Manu Samriti Chander (Georgetown)! @profchander.bsky.social
More details about the conference here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
More details about the conference here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
February 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We're excited to be hosting this conference later in 2025!
There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities
There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities
Trimester 1 is nearly upon us, and it's time for a (by no means exhaustive) round-up of what we will be teaching this term 🧵1/3
If any of this looks like you, please join us for classes starting 24 Feb!
In our first-year courses:
📚"Introduction to Narrative"
✍️"The Art of Writing"....
If any of this looks like you, please join us for classes starting 24 Feb!
In our first-year courses:
📚"Introduction to Narrative"
✍️"The Art of Writing"....
February 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Trimester 1 is nearly upon us, and it's time for a (by no means exhaustive) round-up of what we will be teaching this term 🧵1/3
If any of this looks like you, please join us for classes starting 24 Feb!
In our first-year courses:
📚"Introduction to Narrative"
✍️"The Art of Writing"....
If any of this looks like you, please join us for classes starting 24 Feb!
In our first-year courses:
📚"Introduction to Narrative"
✍️"The Art of Writing"....
A reminder that this PhD scholarship in the ELCC programme will be closing on 1 February. Details are in the link below, but please contact Nikki Hessell if you would like to discuss a proposed dissertation that would fit this scholarship's aims
*Please share widely!*
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
PhD scholarship in English: Poetry and Negotiation | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
January 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A reminder that this PhD scholarship in the ELCC programme will be closing on 1 February. Details are in the link below, but please contact Nikki Hessell if you would like to discuss a proposed dissertation that would fit this scholarship's aims