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

It's Day 6 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing courses for semester 2! #6: 'Capstone: Reaching the Pinnacle' explores works that mark a turning point or culmination in an artist’s career, and how cultural icons like Beyoncé play with the idea of greatness. Students research topic of their choice!

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

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!

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...

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 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! 🥳

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

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-...

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

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! 🥳