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

Congratulations to ANU English's Una McIlvenna, who has been awarded a competitive research travel grant to the Lewis Walpole Library! Congrats Una! 💪

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)

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! 🥳

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

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.

REMINDER: CALC online event tomorrow! Mark McGurl (Stanford) & Joseph Steinberg (UWA) discuss Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon in relation to smaller-scale contexts like Australia. Email: [email protected] for the Zoom link. Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....

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 [email protected] for zoom link. Full details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...

Ruth Park was haunted by the spectre of Eve Langley, author of The Pea Pickers (originally titled The Australian Peasant). I wrote about Park, Langley, and the idea of literary community here: open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...

UNSW ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story" Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m. Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!

I’ve started a Substack! I’ll be writing about my two current projects: Brow Network, which explores how “taste” is changing in a world of dissolving hierarchies, and my biography-in-progress of the brilliant Pacific region writer Ruth Park. Follow along here: substack.com/@moniquerooney.

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 [email protected] 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...

ChatGPT and other text generators have become a condition of contemporary writing. A feature of any writing process is the temporary stepping away from what writing. Something invariably happens, opens up, is generated at such a moment. But ChatGPT cannot step away from and then return to itself.

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.

JOB: 3-Year position as Lecturer in English and Media or Screen Studies external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

JOB. Associate Professor (in Australia a senior position) in Contemporary and / or Popular Literature. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

JOBS! Two positions--one senior lecturer, one associate professor--in the English and Theatre Studies program at U of Melbourne. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

today’s goal: address bone muscle finger strength weakened due to lack of handwriting.

A “cinematic masterpiece in TV form” amp.abc.net.au/article/1030...