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

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.

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...

This morning

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.

📢 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...

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.

a beautiful sign made and installed by my neighbours in Wybalena Grove located in the “bush capital” of Canberra, Australia.