Dr Fergus Edwards
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Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
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Very much my doctoral thesis.
about 1 year ago
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Stoppard's interest in philosophy was long-standing - it is now on the record that he attended evening classes on the subject while a working journalist in Bristol, from Prof. Stephan Körner (a surname he would use as Kerner when he needed a last minute replacement in Hapgood).
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Dr Fergus Edwards
Hopkins Press
18 days ago
Read "Stoppard's Philosophical Investigations ; Or, Wittgenstein's Dogg's Hamlet" by
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It's available in the April 2023 issue of Philosophy and Literature via
@projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Dr Fergus Edwards
Philosophy Now
21 days ago
To celebrate the life and legacy of Tom Stoppard, read "Wittgenstein: Stoppard’s Muse" by Fergus Edwards
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in issue 154:
philosophynow.org/issues/154/W...
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Sharing enthusiasm for Stoppard's work with
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, here, from 1:55:45
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Evenings - ABC listen
Find out ways to ensure your mail gets delivered safely and some books you may not have considered for your Christmas break with Rachel Edwards.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-evenings/evenings/106081186
21 days ago
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Looking forward to talking to
@helenshield.bsky.social
about Stoppard's life and work, tonight on ABC Hobart - probably around 20:30... 🎭
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22 days ago
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Privileged to write about what mattered to Stoppard, for
@aunz.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/its-wanting-...
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‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers
One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as well read and inquisitive as he was.
https://theconversation.com/its-wanting-to-know-that-makes-us-matter-how-tom-stoppard-made-us-all-philosophers-270952
23 days ago
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One of the best interviews with Stoppard is here
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, featuring his favorite curtain lines: STOPPARD “The son of a bitch stole my watch” [from The Front Page]—I quote from memory—and “You that way; we this way” [from Love’s Labour’s Lost].
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23 days ago
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For a more detailed look at Stoppard, Wittgenstein, and performative linguistics, this is in 'Philosophy and Literature' 47.1: "Stoppard's 'Philosophical Investigations'; or, Wittgenstein's 'Dogg's Hamlet'"
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
23 days ago
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For those who want to know more about philosophy in Stoppard: "Wittgenstein: Stoppard's Muse" is in the Feb 2023 edition of
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23 days ago
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Stoppard has died at 88. The Brantley and Billington obituaries are the most notable so far; appreciative of the man and generously acknowledging their gradual reassessment of the philosophical and emotional content of his work. Of which there is much more yet to be said. Vale.
24 days ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
Dan Rebellato
28 days ago
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here:
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
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British Theatre Before and After Covid
https://www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheatrebeforeandaftercovid
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David Eldridge
30 days ago
Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush
@nationaltheatre.org.uk
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Finn: Is this the appeal of ultrarunning? To push ourselves to a place where we stand face to face with the devil, but then to rise up to overcome it? Jennings: laughs, calls it an interesting theory. For her there is something else. Only Caitriona is right...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
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‘A drug that’s very safe and healthy‘: what ultrarunners can teach us about life | Sean Ingle
Caitriona Jennings ran 100 miles in just over 12 hours and wants other women to follow her example – ‘it’s not actually that difficult’
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/18/ultrarunners-teach-us-about-life-caitriona-jennings
about 1 month ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
James Ley
about 1 month ago
Tom Ford on Evelyn Araluen's new book The Rot
theconversation.com/grim-funny-a...
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Grim, funny and unremitting, Evelyn Araluen’s The Rot is a book attuned to dark times
The Rot is haunted by complicity, and haunting in its insistence on remembering every betrayal.
https://theconversation.com/grim-funny-and-unremitting-evelyn-araluens-the-rot-is-a-book-attuned-to-dark-times-267323
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Yep, you're all getting 'The Rot' by
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for Christmas and there *will* be a test...
about 2 months ago
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Harms done to people of the palawa and pakana when recognising genocide is elided with an assumed extinction are sensitively introduced in
@lrb.co.uk
But: part of that harm is forgetting lutrawita and the palawa and pakana, and only using Tasmania and Tasmanians...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n19/lorraine-daston/kaboom
about 2 months ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
English at UTAS
about 2 months ago
News report on our Read, Write, Publish day yesterday!
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Really enjoyed watching the third year show from
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's Theatre & Performance students this afternoon... 🎭 ...thankyou Adrian, Anna, Autumn, Brooke, Laree, and Megan, and everyone involved!
2 months ago
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And we're down to the final runner! 🇦🇺 Phil Gore He starts loop 114 alone and looking SO FRESH - if he makes it back within an hour he wins - but as last person standing he won't have a shot at his world record... 🇧🇪 Awesome Ivo Steyart finishes loop 113 and "refuses to continue"
#bigdogultra
2 months ago
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And we're down to the final two! 🇦🇺 Phil Gore 🇧🇪 Ivo Steyart After 112 continuous loops - 4 days and 16 hours, 751.027km - they're out on loop 113...! 🇺🇸 Harvey Lewis timed out after a fantastic 111 loops to place third (not finish third: technically no-one ever finishes a backyard...)
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2 months ago
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It's 🇬🇧 Sarah Perry's world record 🥳... ... but maybe don't tell her? She's got a shot at the whole thing: 11 set out on loop 93, the world record is 119...
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(96 'yards' will be 96 hours and 400miles: 4 days of 4.167miles every single hour) 🇺🇸 Megan Eckhert made an awesome 92 laps
2 months ago
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The race isn't over, but the womens's world record has just gone... 🇬🇧 Sarah Perry 🇺🇸 Megan Eckart ... are both through 88 'yards' (590km) - one yard an hour, every hour - as it looks like 14 athletes are still standing at the
#bigdogultra
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2 months ago
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Robbie Moore
2 months ago
Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...
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Phenomenal 24hr Running World Championship yesterday Two women beat the previous world record... + Australia's Holly Ranson 273.058km ...and the new world record holder: + Great Britain's Sarah Webster 277.559km 🥳
www.irunfar.com/great-britai...
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Great Britain's Sarah Webster Sets Women's 24-Hour World Record
Sarah Webster of Great Britain smashes the previous women's 24-hour world record.
https://www.irunfar.com/great-britains-sarah-webster-sets-womens-24-hour-world-record
2 months ago
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Travelling from Tasmania to see Indian Ink at the Hampstead Theatre in December! (Conveniently can see family at the same time) The
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staging will be unusually relevant for a Stoppard; neither the radically determined set of a Jumpers nor the freedom of a Rosencrantz...
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2 months ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
English at UTAS
3 months ago
Love writing? Curious about how to get published? Teaching creative writing? Come join a vibrant community of writers at Read, Write, Publish: Hobart on Monday 27th October!
www.facebook.com/share/19hBVu...
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The (idiosyncratic) Nobel Prize for Literature is announced tomorrow One Australian has the best the odds (Gerald Murnane), another (Alexis Wright) is seen as a genuine possibility (FWIW, if it's Tom Stoppard I'm here for all your media inquiries... 🤓)
lithub.com/here-are-the...
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Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week, on Thursday, October 9. As always, to prepare myself (emotionally, I guess?), I consulted the UK betting site NicerOdds (nicer than w…
https://lithub.com/here-are-the-bookies-odds-for-the-2025-nobel-prize-in-literature/
3 months ago
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2nd at the Coastal Pathway 64km (5h12) (and a 50km PB (4h) en route) 🥳 Wonderful crew, good running weather, lovely day out all round Now for a nap and all the food
3 months ago
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Running the first Coastal Pathway 64km Ultra on Sunday 🏃♂️ Latrobe -> Ulverstone -> Latrobe Hoping for dry(ish) and still(ish) 🌦️ As always, it will be hardest on the (wonderful) crew...😬
3 months ago
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Looking forward to chatting about Kate Kruimink's novel 'Heartsease' with
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on ABC Hobart, tonight at 21:15 2025 Tasmanian Premier's Prize for Fiction Winner, with, among other things, a fair bit of middle-class Hobart in it...
3 months ago
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"You can be an academic badass and a track goddess" BA in English (Cam) *and* 200m silver medallist (22.14s) at the World Athletics Championships If you need a sporting role model, you could do a lot worse than Amy Hunt...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
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‘You can be an academic badass and a track goddess’ – GB sprinter Amy Hunt revels in shock 200m silver
Hunt powers from sixth to second with the kind of fearless attitude that helped her come back from a quadriceps rupture
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/19/gb-sprinter-amy-hunt-revels-shock-200m-silver-world-athletics-championships
3 months ago
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This was a joy to listen to - intelligent, humble, informed, and, unexpectedly, intensely moving. I cannot imagine a better case being made for King Lear. Thankyou Douglas Schatz, Mark Lawson, and Michael Billington 🎭
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The Play Podcast - 101 - The 101 Greatest Plays
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4od4yxfBNmmmQTFGN67zWI?si=Keqpc_88QhKsqi4ZztS18w
3 months ago
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Teaching HEN319: Literary Cultures
@utasenglish.bsky.social
, and the treatment of Meanjin is an obscene paragon of what we're studying
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
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Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up
Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/meanjin-closure-financial-reasons-melbourne-university-press/
4 months ago
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Grateful for @jamesley's most recent SRB piece. The key (the call to arms is elsewhere): Neo-liberalism's "transference of the emancipatory language of rights and freedoms to capital makes the rights and freedoms of actual people secondary and conditional."
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...
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Bastards! | Sydney Review of Books
From economic rationalism to libertarianism, neoliberalism appears under many guises. Reviewing Quinn Slobodian’s new book on neoliberal thought, James Ley shows that what its founders share with latt...
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bastards
4 months ago
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Enjoyed Diana Souhami chatting Bryher, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, and alternative titles for her book: 'No Modernism Without Women Who Had Special Relationships With Other Women That They May Not Have Known How To Define' or 'Lesbians Galore!'
open.spotify.com/episode/4qF7...
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Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qF70F5DeyfNxu0PcjkUCa?si=ayQHsL4gRT-79I5ewwFt7g
4 months ago
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A pleasure to chat with
@helenshield.bsky.social
about Zadie Smith's 'The Fraud' - historical fiction that begins with a floor of a house collapsing under the weight of its books. 📚📚📚📚📚 Arguably a consummation devoutly to be wished... Here, from 2:27:30
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Evenings - ABC listen
Learn how Fremantle in Western Australia is feeling with the Spirit of Tasmania IV on its four-day stopover and Arianne Struik explains what EMDR therapy is and how it is being used in the North West ...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-evenings/evenings/105631606
4 months ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
English at UTAS
5 months ago
The launch of a new Tasmanian publisher (Evercreech Editions) and a new Tasmanian novel (My Heart at Evening, by Konrad Muller), on August 7 at Fullers. Launched by Geordie Williamson, Adam Ouston and Richard Flanagan.
www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/my-hea...
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My Heart at Evening | Konrad Muller
https://www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/my-hea..
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Dr Fergus Edwards
Naomi Milthorpe
5 months ago
Repeal the “inequitable, “pernicious,” and “perverse" Jobs Ready Graduate Policy!
openpetition.org/!repealjrg
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Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...
https://openpetition.org/!repealjrg
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24 hours in Melbourne: Sport (2/2) Lions! Wallabies! MCG! (Rugby Union!) A game that I suspect many more than 90,000 might claim to have attended...
5 months ago
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24 hours in Melbourne: Literature (1/2) Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!
5 months ago
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There is a cloud over Launceston this morning.
5 months ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
kelly jensen
5 months ago
Work in libraries? Tell me a bit about your experiences with library work and mental health (as well as your perceptions of them). Anonymous survey running through August 1. Details in the form for more info.
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Chatted about Adam Ouston's 'Waypoints' - and reading it in a glass box in Hobart... 🛩️ The conversation's here, from 02:28:30
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Evenings - ABC listen
Find out what makes a good scone at the Great Zeehan Bake Off and learn why the Australian Himalayan Foundation is holding a special fundraiser at a Nepalese pub in Tasmania.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-evenings/evenings/105522384
5 months ago
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Sam Jinks - Mortal Reflections - at Launceston's QVMAG. Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.
6 months ago
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Dr Fergus Edwards
Naomi Milthorpe
6 months ago
New equity in teaching survey is dropping as part of our ACSES-supported project, "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"!
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Just published an article about WritersBLOCK/ReadersBLOCK, written with the project's instigator, Dr Lucy Christopher
@utas.edu.au
- it's here
@aunz.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/we-spent-a-m...
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We spent a month writing and reading in glass boxes. We read faster, wrote more – and inspired passersby
The WritersBLOCK / ReadersBLOCK project in Hobart is a reminder of the importance of stories, and the benefits of making time to slow down and enjoy them.
https://theconversation.com/we-spent-a-month-writing-and-reading-in-glass-boxes-we-read-faster-wrote-more-and-inspired-passersby-259797
6 months ago
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"WRITE ABOUT THE THINGS OF THE WORLD WITH NO GLAZING" Lockwood -brilliantly- identifies the specific value of reading Plath's collected prose alongside the journals and the poetry, saying something important about her work that we didn't see before. If Plath matters to you (too), read this.
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6 months ago
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Western States has started! Weather looks consistent with records...🤞 Kudos to the livestream for gender equal coverage. Love our sport.
6 months ago
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If I'm back with Stoppard, then, in my case, it's also time to go back to Wittgenstein... ...though, in this case, it's not only Ludwig
6 months ago
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Returning to Stoppard, and 'Brazil' (1985) couldn't be more timely. Newly learned that the final shot - the torture chamber - is, in fact, Croydon.
6 months ago
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