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'!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:

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

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...

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....

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-...

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

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-...

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...

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

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...

What should we do with news ballads that are composed in a vanishing language? ANU English's own Una McIlvenna is presenting her ARC-funded research this Thursday at the CuSPP seminar - join in person or via the link below:

At @englishanu.bsky.social we're super excited to announce our courses for semester 2, so we're going to spend the next few days showcasing them! #1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:

Join @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Kate Flaherty and a team of experts as they discuss current under-representation of older women in the performing arts: 'Gender, Age and The Stage - Ellen Terry and Nellie Melba in Retreat' 6pm 15 May 2025 Free! Register here: www.thestreet.org.au/shows/gender...

Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a Senior Fellowship for 2026 at the Descartes Centre in beautiful Utrecht! Really looking forward to collaborating with my Dutch colleagues and eating lots of waffles! 🧇 🥳 www.uu.nl/en/descartes...

How did the Dutch Stadtholder William of Orange end up on the throne of 17th century England? ANU English's own @unamcilvenna.bsky.social explains it all to Suzanne Hill on ABC Radio National Nightlife. Have a listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

So this was a great symposium, with a uniformly high standard of presentations across the board. It was wonderful to be in such generous scholarly company. And as a bonus, I finally met @kathylubey.bsky.social!

Just finished my interview with ABC Radio National for This Week in History on the ‘Glorious’ Revolution of 1688. Always fun to talk history with Suzanne Hill and sing a ballad from the period 😍 Episode airs this Friday!

I'm going to speaking on "Treaties and the Unliterary 18th Century" at this symposium, sharing some more of my @marsdenfund.bsky.social work on "The Poetics of Treaties," especially as it relates to Wordsworth's poetry. Abstract pasted in the thread below

Fantastic set of papers at #RenSA25 on 'Reading Bodies' by an all-star crew from ANU English! Kate Flaherty, Lucy Boon, @ohwowbee.bsky.social & Hannah Upton, chaired by @claireghansen.bsky.social. Great representation by the Aussie crew so far from home! 🦘📚🤓

If you're at the RSA in Boston, come and catch me chatting with Tiffany Stern and Nicole Sheriko Thurs at 11am about puppets, acrobats, and insane French theatre!

At #RSA25 in Boston? Be sure to catch some of the ANU English crew presenting there! First up: @unamcilvenna.bsky.social in 'Entertainment in the Fairs and Marketplaces of Early Modern Europe' w Tiffany Stern and @nicolesheriko.bsky.social! 11am: Marriott Copley Place, Exeter Room, 3rd Floor

Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:

'In Australia, although a woman, I am permitted to be a person'. ANU English's own Kate Flaherty has a new book on the little-known tour of British actress Ellen Terry to Australia & NZ in 1914 at the age of 66. It's free to read until 18 March: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New #openaccess special collection from the Open Library of Humanities, 'Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery' : https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/905/ #glam #museums #collectionsasdata

Love James Joyce? It's 100 years since Finnegans Wake began to be published. ANU English's own Russell Smith will be speaking at a colloquium at Adelaide University on Friday 7 March on this extraordinary work by Joyce. Get your tickets here: aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

It’s arrived! So great to finally hold this volume in the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Cultural History of Fame series. It’s taken quite a few years but hopefully you’ll think it was worth the wait 🤓 My chapter is on scandal and infamy!

Publication alert! ANU English's own @unamcilvenna.bsky.social is one of the contributors to Bloomsbury's exciting new volume, A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance! The book looks at celebrity, scandal, the arts, politics, religion, visibility & the science of fame

Calling all 18C specialists! ANU English's own Amelia Dale (along with Claire Knowles, La Trobe & Nicola Parsons, Sydney) is convening "The Unliterary Eighteenth Century: Gender and Marginal Texts" symposium. Registration is free, more details here: genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/events/unlit...

Latest #HeartoftheMatter publication from our fabulous team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to know more about AI's impact on the environment? Read this fascinating new article in NCM by ANU English's own @tynedaile.bsky.social on AI, surveillance & the environment: