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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! 🥳
link.springer.com/referencewor...
Here's the judges' comments:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
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...
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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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/...
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!
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
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...
It's Day 6 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing courses for semester 2!
#6: 'Capstone: Reaching the Pinnacle' explores works that mark a turning point or culmination in an artist’s career, and how cultural icons like Beyoncé play with the idea of greatness. Students research topic of their choice!
#6: 'Capstone: Reaching the Pinnacle' explores works that mark a turning point or culmination in an artist’s career, and how cultural icons like Beyoncé play with the idea of greatness. Students research topic of their choice!
June 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It's Day 6 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing courses for semester 2!
#6: 'Capstone: Reaching the Pinnacle' explores works that mark a turning point or culmination in an artist’s career, and how cultural icons like Beyoncé play with the idea of greatness. Students research topic of their choice!
#6: 'Capstone: Reaching the Pinnacle' explores works that mark a turning point or culmination in an artist’s career, and how cultural icons like Beyoncé play with the idea of greatness. Students research topic of their choice!
It's Day 5 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#5: 'Advanced Creative Writing' examines discourse about the significance of literary & genre fiction, & disputes about the category of value in interpretative methods. Students design, edit & publish a literary journal!
#5: 'Advanced Creative Writing' examines discourse about the significance of literary & genre fiction, & disputes about the category of value in interpretative methods. Students design, edit & publish a literary journal!
June 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
It's Day 5 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#5: 'Advanced Creative Writing' examines discourse about the significance of literary & genre fiction, & disputes about the category of value in interpretative methods. Students design, edit & publish a literary journal!
#5: 'Advanced Creative Writing' examines discourse about the significance of literary & genre fiction, & disputes about the category of value in interpretative methods. Students design, edit & publish a literary journal!
It's Day 4 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#4: 'Literature & Modernity' reveals the breadth & diversity of modernist expression in its response to the rapid changes of the period that transformed everything from gender & sexuality to the politics of race & class.
#4: 'Literature & Modernity' reveals the breadth & diversity of modernist expression in its response to the rapid changes of the period that transformed everything from gender & sexuality to the politics of race & class.
May 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It's Day 4 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#4: 'Literature & Modernity' reveals the breadth & diversity of modernist expression in its response to the rapid changes of the period that transformed everything from gender & sexuality to the politics of race & class.
#4: 'Literature & Modernity' reveals the breadth & diversity of modernist expression in its response to the rapid changes of the period that transformed everything from gender & sexuality to the politics of race & class.
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! 🥳
It's Day 3 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#3: 'Empire: The Black Atlantic & Colonial Romanticism' asks: How does imperial writing imagine colonial spaces, & how does writing at the peripheries speak back to empire? Readings: memoirs of enslaved & 1st Nations ppl
#3: 'Empire: The Black Atlantic & Colonial Romanticism' asks: How does imperial writing imagine colonial spaces, & how does writing at the peripheries speak back to empire? Readings: memoirs of enslaved & 1st Nations ppl
May 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It's Day 3 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#3: 'Empire: The Black Atlantic & Colonial Romanticism' asks: How does imperial writing imagine colonial spaces, & how does writing at the peripheries speak back to empire? Readings: memoirs of enslaved & 1st Nations ppl
#3: 'Empire: The Black Atlantic & Colonial Romanticism' asks: How does imperial writing imagine colonial spaces, & how does writing at the peripheries speak back to empire? Readings: memoirs of enslaved & 1st Nations ppl
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
Enjoyed the film Anatomy of a Fall? @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Rosanne Kennedy and Leigh Gilmore analyse how the mother and son navigate the courtroom and learn to become increasingly authoritative witnesses in a new article in Gender & Justice:
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May 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Enjoyed the film Anatomy of a Fall? @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Rosanne Kennedy and Leigh Gilmore analyse how the mother and son navigate the courtroom and learn to become increasingly authoritative witnesses in a new article in Gender & Justice:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
It's Day 2 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#2: 'Adaptation from Text to Screen' asks: Should adaptation preserve, transform, or challenge its source text? We'll test tools of adaptation theory on a range of vivid case-studies from Romeo & Juliet to Modern Love.
#2: 'Adaptation from Text to Screen' asks: Should adaptation preserve, transform, or challenge its source text? We'll test tools of adaptation theory on a range of vivid case-studies from Romeo & Juliet to Modern Love.
May 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It's Day 2 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#2: 'Adaptation from Text to Screen' asks: Should adaptation preserve, transform, or challenge its source text? We'll test tools of adaptation theory on a range of vivid case-studies from Romeo & Juliet to Modern Love.
#2: 'Adaptation from Text to Screen' asks: Should adaptation preserve, transform, or challenge its source text? We'll test tools of adaptation theory on a range of vivid case-studies from Romeo & Juliet to Modern Love.
At @englishanu.bsky.social we're super excited to announce our courses for semester 2, so we're going to spend the next few days showcasing them!
#1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:
#1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:
May 15, 2025 at 5:27 AM
At @englishanu.bsky.social we're super excited to announce our courses for semester 2, so we're going to spend the next few days showcasing them!
#1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:
#1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:
Join @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Kate Flaherty and a team of experts as they discuss current under-representation of older women in the performing arts: 'Gender, Age and The Stage - Ellen Terry and Nellie Melba in Retreat'
6pm 15 May 2025
Free! Register here:
www.thestreet.org.au/shows/gender...
6pm 15 May 2025
Free! Register here:
www.thestreet.org.au/shows/gender...
May 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Join @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Kate Flaherty and a team of experts as they discuss current under-representation of older women in the performing arts: 'Gender, Age and The Stage - Ellen Terry and Nellie Melba in Retreat'
6pm 15 May 2025
Free! Register here:
www.thestreet.org.au/shows/gender...
6pm 15 May 2025
Free! Register here:
www.thestreet.org.au/shows/gender...
Fantastic set of papers at #RenSA25 on 'Reading Bodies' by an all-star crew from ANU English! Kate Flaherty, Lucy Boon, @ohwowbee.bsky.social & Hannah Upton, chaired by @claireghansen.bsky.social. Great representation by the Aussie crew so far from home! 🦘📚🤓
March 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Fantastic set of papers at #RenSA25 on 'Reading Bodies' by an all-star crew from ANU English! Kate Flaherty, Lucy Boon, @ohwowbee.bsky.social & Hannah Upton, chaired by @claireghansen.bsky.social. Great representation by the Aussie crew so far from home! 🦘📚🤓
At #RSA25 in Boston? Be sure to catch some of the ANU English crew presenting there! First up: @unamcilvenna.bsky.social in 'Entertainment in the Fairs and Marketplaces of Early Modern Europe' w Tiffany Stern and @nicolesheriko.bsky.social!
11am: Marriott Copley Place, Exeter Room, 3rd Floor
11am: Marriott Copley Place, Exeter Room, 3rd Floor
March 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
At #RSA25 in Boston? Be sure to catch some of the ANU English crew presenting there! First up: @unamcilvenna.bsky.social in 'Entertainment in the Fairs and Marketplaces of Early Modern Europe' w Tiffany Stern and @nicolesheriko.bsky.social!
11am: Marriott Copley Place, Exeter Room, 3rd Floor
11am: Marriott Copley Place, Exeter Room, 3rd Floor
Love James Joyce? It's 100 years since Finnegans Wake began to be published. ANU English's own Russell Smith will be speaking at a colloquium at Adelaide University on Friday 7 March on this extraordinary work by Joyce.
Get your tickets here:
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February 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Love James Joyce? It's 100 years since Finnegans Wake began to be published. ANU English's own Russell Smith will be speaking at a colloquium at Adelaide University on Friday 7 March on this extraordinary work by Joyce.
Get your tickets here:
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Get your tickets here:
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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
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! 🥳
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)