Excited about this (free!) public lecture at the NLA by one of the foremost scholars of Shakespeare and early modernity, Lorna Hutson. 19 Feb, 6pm. To register or get an online link, visit: www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve... Don't miss this exploration of the idea of English 'island nationhood'!

England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson | National Library of Australia (NLA)

Professor Lorna Hutson examines early modern legal and poetic texts to explore the concept of England's 'island nationhood'.

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Tomorrow! Free! Online and in person at the NLA! From 6-8pm, join ANU English's Kate Flaherty and actors from Bell Shakespeare as they illustrate this Shakespeare lecture, uncovering the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia. www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve...

Shakespeare on the move: Gold rush to Great War | National Library of Australia (NLA)

Join us for the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discover the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.

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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! 🥳 🥳 🥳

🥳 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:

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...

English at the Australian National University@englishanu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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...

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...

English at the Australian National University@englishanu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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...

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...

English at the Australian National University@englishanu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Love books? Which is your favourite of the century so far? Here at ANU English we're joining ABC Radio National in their poll to find the nation's fave books of the last 25 years. Each day we'll post the Top 10 List of a member of our dept. You can join in the fun here www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

Love books? Which is your favourite of the century so far? Here at ANU English we're joining ABC Radio National in their poll to find the nation's fave books of the last 25 years. Each day we'll post the Top 10 List of a member of our dept. You can join in the fun here www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National

Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.

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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/...

ANU English's own @lucyneave.bsky.social has a new book out: 'Infrastructures of Crisis in Global 21st-Century Literature' Now available for pre-order with @edinburghup.bsky.social Be sure to use discount code NEW30 to get 30% off! Congrats Lucy! 🥳 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-infrast...

Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature

Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature

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ANU English's own @becclode.bsky.social talked to award-winning Palawa writer & dramaturg Dylan Van Den Berg about his adaptation of the Aussie classic The Chosen Vessel, Gothic genre & Aboriginal gothic theatre, & his PhD. Listen to their talk here: thestreetcbr.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/g...

GETTING TO KNOW: PLAYWRIGHT DYLAN VAN DEN BERG IN CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA CLODE

Dylan Van Den Berg is an award-winning Palawa writer and dramaturg from the northeast of Lutruwita/Tasmania, with family connections to the Bass Strait Islands where his great-grandmother was born.…

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Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined. #RepealJRG theconversation.com/top-australi...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

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This sounds amazing: a global get-together of Shakespeare experts on the topic of environmental justice! Organised by ANU English's Claire Hansen. Register here:

Claire Hansen@claireghansen.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in #Shakespeare & environmental justice? Register (free!) to join the Globe4Globe 2025 Symposium: online, 12-13 Sep 2025. An incredible line-up of speakers from across the globe, supported by Shakespeare's Globe & ANU's Centre for Early Modern Studies. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

This is today at 5pm! Don't forget to register now at the link below, and get ready for some ballad-singing! 🎶

Dr Una McIlvenna@unamcilvenna.bsky.social · last yr.

A reminder that I'm presenting at this with Ruby Lowe on Thurs 24 July, 5pm Melb time: 'Hearing the News - how ballad singers, pampheteers and orators took the news to the people in the pre-modern world' It's free and online - book here: www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_july_202...

Publication klaxon! 🎺 And it's one of our students! ANU English's own Hamid Famahmandian, a PhD student supervised by Russell Smith, catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 🤯. Congrats Hamid! 🥳 www.routledge.com/Iran-in-Finn...

Iran in Finnegans Wake

Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This book is an invaluable re...

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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!

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

Do our hearts really 'break'? Shakespeare thought so. Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear

Shakespeare’s characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare’s canon in dialogue with twenty-first-century med...

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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...

Tomorrow (5 June, 1-2pm AEST) I'm giving another talk on 'Disaster, Poverty, and Marginalised Languages in Printed News Ballads' at the ACU IHSS Research Seminar, MEL-412-1-01, Arts Precinct, 36-38 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and online via Teams. Hit me up if you need the link! 🎶 🎶 🎶

Join Dr Kate Flaherty (ANU English) & Associate Director of Bell Shakespeare James Evans for a screening & discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet at the National Film & Sound Archive 22 Jun 1pm. Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2) tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Book-...

Book Club: Romeo + Juliet

The star-crossed lovers find themselves in a gun-fuelled urban war in Baz Luhrmann’s high-energy version.

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Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film

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Elemental Melodrama. Guest Editors: Monique Rooney, Gillian Russell and Stefan Solomon. Volume 39, Issue 3 of Textual Practice

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As Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice, @englishanu.bsky.social's Lucy Neave explores how this innovative novel challenges how fiction usually works: theconversation.com/michelle-de-...

Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize with a genre-bending questioning of art and expectation

Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.

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Less than 2 weeks until our conference CFP officially closes on 6th June! 📣 Digital Archipelagos 📣 Digital Humanities Australasia Conference (DHA25) 📣 2-5 December 📣 Australian National University, Canberra Submissions here: dha25.org

I'll be presenting some new work at this year's American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference in our session on 'Large Language Models and Literature': www.acla.org/virtual-conf...

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! 🥳

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

Congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's Bridget Vincent, who, along with researchers in Denmark, has been awarded a Circle U. award for their project to support inclusive participation in academic dialogue. Read about it here: www.circle-u.eu/news/2025/sp...

Spotlight on ED&I: Discover the 3 Projects Driving Change in Academic Culture - Circle U.

Earlier this year, Circle U. launched a call for projects focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I). Today, we’re proud to present the three initiatives that have been selected for funding. E...

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The Stella Prize shortlist is out, and @englishanu.bsky.social's own @lucyneave.bsky.social is here with a guide to all the books before the grand prize winner is announced: theconversation.com/truth-tellin... #booksky

Truth-telling, originality and shame: your guide to the 2025 Stella shortlist

This year’s Stella Prize shortlist is a testament to the importance of truthfulness, painstaking research and the urgency of confronting shame.

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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...