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Huge congratulations to ELCC graduate Asher Emanuel for the release of a stunning and important new book! www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-va...
The Valley - BWB Bridget Williams Books
Told largely in verbatim dialogue, this up-close and personal account brings the realities of the New Zealand criminal justice system to life through the voices of those who experience it first-hand.
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Here is ELCC undergraduate student Rune Benzon featuring in The Post - her own writing about "a day out in search of our national bird." www.thepost.co.nz/environment/...
The Post
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ELCC PhD student Austin Haynes has a piece in The Conversation about Ryan Gosling's new movie and Erima Maewa Kaihau's music theconversation.com/her-song-fea...
Her song features in Ryan Gosling’s hit movie, but Erima Maewa Kaihau was once a star too
Over 100 years after Pō Atarau was popularised, it’s on the soundtrack of Ryan Gosling’s blockbuster Project Hail Mary. But who was the remarkable woman behind it?
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Next up in our research seminars, we have our Elegies event, Thurs 26 March, 9am-11:45am, at the Stout Centre at Te Herenga Waka. The event features talks by Danielle Clark (University College Dublin) & Nikki Hessell & Bonnie Etherington (THW) To RSVP, please contact Alastair Baldwin
We've got an array of great events & speakers coming up in ELCC in 2026! Here's the first: 2:00 pm, 13/3 (zoom): "Holding the grief of those who survived: Okinawan Feminist Literature Resisting Militarization”. Celebrating Aya Sakima’s new book, with Bonnie Etherington, Shin Takahashi & Jinah Kim.
We're getting ready to welcome our students on Monday! Here's a little thread of what they'll be reading this trimester, starting with our first-year courses in the English and Literary & Creative Communication majors: Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830 (ENGL) The Art of Writing (LCCM)
Huge congratulations to Anna Jackson, whose book "Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts" has been long-listed for the Okhams! www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...
News | New Zealand Book Awards Trust
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Last call for 2026 tutoring applications! Please apply by Sunday 11 January if you want to be considered www.wgtn.ac.nz/sam/about/tu...
Tutor vacancies | Te Kura Kōmanawa / School of Arts and Media | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
View current vacancies for tutor positions at the School of Arts and Media.
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Nearly time for Patricia Akhimie’s lecture on “Setting Othello,” hosted by @elccprogramme.bsky.social here at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
And then, in the second half of this week, we will be welcoming 50 speakers from around the world for a conference on 18th-century and Romantic studies 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.
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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW@elccprogramme.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe 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/...
Registration is still open for Patricia Akhimie's lecture next week, so please sign up - we would love to see you there! 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.
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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...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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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/...
“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.
wgtn.ac.nz
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/...
“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.
wgtn.ac.nz
Congratulations Nikki!
The Defoe Society@defoesociety.bsky.social · 9mo agoCongratulations 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
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-...
Jane Austen’s terrible parents
'Would you want General Tilney to be your daddy?'
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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
If you're in Ōtautahi this week, come along and hear ELCC's Anna Jackson in this fabulous lineup!
Mikaela Nyman@miknyman.bsky.social · 10mo agoPoetry 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...
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.
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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
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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
Te Herenga Waka University Press@thwupbooks.bsky.social · 11mo agoHappy 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...
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/
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.
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Last call, THW folks. Anyone in humanities disciplines interested in the 18th or early nineteenth century and its legacies, please send us an abstract!
Nikki Hessell@nikkihessell.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
We're delighted to host the launch of Anna Jackson's new book, Terrier, Worrier, published by Auckland University Press.
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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...
