Russell Goulbourne
@frenchprofessor.bsky.social
Priest and Professor in Melbourne 🇦🇺 Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne; former Dean @kingsartshums.bsky.social. For more information, see https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/837929-russell-goulbourne.
I’m delighted to have been appointed as the ninth Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/whats-happen...
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m delighted to have been appointed as the ninth Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/whats-happen...
Seven of the top ten skills employers say they most need are not technical but human: resilience, empathy, adaptability, curiosity, leadership, creativity and self-awareness. And these are precisely the skills students develop when they do a BA… #HASS
September 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Seven of the top ten skills employers say they most need are not technical but human: resilience, empathy, adaptability, curiosity, leadership, creativity and self-awareness. And these are precisely the skills students develop when they do a BA… #HASS
A welcome statement from the Anglican Church in Victoria about Camp Sovereignty
September 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A welcome statement from the Anglican Church in Victoria about Camp Sovereignty
Remembering with thankfulness Fr Gerry O’Collins SJ on the first anniversary of his death
August 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Remembering with thankfulness Fr Gerry O’Collins SJ on the first anniversary of his death
‘Beginning to wonder’… George Oppen’s ‘The Forms of Love’ (1975)
August 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
‘Beginning to wonder’… George Oppen’s ‘The Forms of Love’ (1975)
A coffee in my @voltaire.ox.ac.uk travel cup while I watch the boys play soccer at Manningham Juventus FC in Doncaster: an almost typical Aussie Saturday morning ⚽️
August 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A coffee in my @voltaire.ox.ac.uk travel cup while I watch the boys play soccer at Manningham Juventus FC in Doncaster: an almost typical Aussie Saturday morning ⚽️
A blessed Feast of the Assumption! This sixteenth-century Macedonian icon of the Dormition of the Virgin is now part of the wonderful collection of icons in the Petit Palais, Paris.
August 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A blessed Feast of the Assumption! This sixteenth-century Macedonian icon of the Dormition of the Virgin is now part of the wonderful collection of icons in the Petit Palais, Paris.
W S Merwin, ‘Heartland’ (2008)
August 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
W S Merwin, ‘Heartland’ (2008)
“Now tell me, what made you begin this particular thread, @brionyneilson.bsky.social?”
August 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Now tell me, what made you begin this particular thread, @brionyneilson.bsky.social?”
But spare a thought for Guy, who seems rather sorry to have to tell us about twentieth-century Spain…
August 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
But spare a thought for Guy, who seems rather sorry to have to tell us about twentieth-century Spain…
And if you’re looking for a very precise definition of when the sixteenth century begins and ends from someone you can trust…
August 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
And if you’re looking for a very precise definition of when the sixteenth century begins and ends from someone you can trust…
There is still time to discover where the introduction of shoulder pads fits in the chronology of the history of France…
August 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
There is still time to discover where the introduction of shoulder pads fits in the chronology of the history of France…
I had the honour of preaching at Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, this morning for their Patronal Festival
August 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I had the honour of preaching at Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, this morning for their Patronal Festival
He must have got a job lot: they’re the wrong size 😆
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
He must have got a job lot: they’re the wrong size 😆
Wow, young Olivier has really grown up…
August 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Wow, young Olivier has really grown up…
It’s unfortunate, to say the least, that this book appeared six years after Gregory Vlastos’s death, robbing us of his suave presence on the cover…
August 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It’s unfortunate, to say the least, that this book appeared six years after Gregory Vlastos’s death, robbing us of his suave presence on the cover…
And who better to show you around American history than these three gentlemen (and their eyebrows)…
August 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
And who better to show you around American history than these three gentlemen (and their eyebrows)…
Please don’t forget this very cheerful introduction to clinical psychology, where Sylvain’s sweater certainly has something of the ‘singulier’ about it…
August 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Please don’t forget this very cheerful introduction to clinical psychology, where Sylvain’s sweater certainly has something of the ‘singulier’ about it…
What a delight it will be to keep the feast of St Laurence in Sydney the weekend after next…
July 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
What a delight it will be to keep the feast of St Laurence in Sydney the weekend after next…
It’s 26 July — on this day last year, the Paris Olympics were just beginning — and I find myself drawn to this Mary Oliver poem…
July 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
It’s 26 July — on this day last year, the Paris Olympics were just beginning — and I find myself drawn to this Mary Oliver poem…
What a privilege it has been to spend the last three weeks studying the Renaissance with these smart University of Melbourne students on a Summer School in the Loire Valley.
July 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What a privilege it has been to spend the last three weeks studying the Renaissance with these smart University of Melbourne students on a Summer School in the Loire Valley.
In Tours, the discerning gentleman could buy a pink three-piece suit for 679€… 🤔
July 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In Tours, the discerning gentleman could buy a pink three-piece suit for 679€… 🤔
Langeais: lunch with a view
July 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Langeais: lunch with a view
