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

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

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 ❤️

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...

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In our third-year courses:
🗻"Romantic Literature"
🗽"American Literature: 20th Century"
🌱"Writing Ecologies"

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In our second-year courses:
🌔"Dark Unknowing in Māori Literature"
📰"Literature & Journalism"
🏵️"Modernist Literature"

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"....

We're so proud of all of our graduates in English and in Literary & Creative Communication who are graduating this week! Looking forward to seeing you and your whānau at the ceremonies 🎉🎉

We'll be celebrating Fleur Adcock's life and work with a reading this Friday - all poetry lovers welcome

Please join us for this week's ELCC Research Seminar
Charles Ferrall, “South by South: New Zealand and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration”
Thursday, October 17th, 12:00-12:50pm
von Zedlitz 802

Abstract in the thread below 👇

We have some great research seminars to end tri 2!

Seminars are on selected Thursdays, 12-12:50pm, in VZ802

Dougal McNeill, “Fictions of Intelligence and the Art of Fiction”
October 10th

Charles Ferrall, “South by South: New Zealand and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration”
October 17th

Open Day was a great chance to meet incoming students!

Our 2025 100-level English courses are:
ENGL 117-Introduction to Narrative
ENGL 111-Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830

And if you're into creative communication we have:
LCCM 171: The Art of Writing
LCCM 172: Reading & Writing Poetry

English Honours graduate Melissa Oliver (Ngāti Porou) and current bookseller at Unity Books in Wellington has won the Emerging Bookseller of the Year at the 2024 NZ Book Industry Awards!! Congratulations Melissa

It's a huge pleasure to welcome Dr Tru Paraha (Ngāti Hineāmaru, Ngāti Kahu o Torongare) as our new colleague in Māori literature in the ELCC programme. She'll be teaching Public Writing this year, but stay tuned for new courses in Māori writing in 2025!

Nau mai, haere mai Tru

The ELCC programme is profoundly sad to hear that Emeritus Professor Vincent O'Sullivan has passed away. One of the great NZ writers across genres & a respected teacher & colleague. This photo is on the 9th floor of VZ, taken when he was Writer in Residence. Our condolences to his whānau

The ELCC programme has been well-represented at the RSAA 2023 conference in Melbourne, with students Samuel Chitty, Phoebe Pierard & Pearl Kennedy presenting papers, as well as lecturer Nikki Hessell

Our brilliant colleague Sarah Ross will be speaking at Otago/on zoom next week about King Charles I in the State Library of Victoria's John Emerson Collection - see details in the announcement below

Gorgeously sunny Pōneke Friday. A good day for some poetry! Come and hear Jackson McCarthy, Aroha Witinitara, Margo Montes de Oca and Jake Arthur in vZ802, 4pm.

"An Afternoon as Ourselves": we are marking 50 years since WH Auden's death with a poetry reading in the Department. Join Aroha Witinitara, Jake Arthur, Margo Montes de Oca and Jackson McCarthy for new poems in honour of an old poet, Friday 29th Sept, 4pm, vZ802