We're getting ready to welcome our students on Monday! Here's a little thread of what they'll be reading this trimester, starting with our first-year courses in the English and Literary & Creative Communication majors: Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830 (ENGL) The Art of Writing (LCCM)

Huge congratulations to Anna Jackson, whose book "Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts" has been long-listed for the Okhams! www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

Last call for 2026 tutoring applications! Please apply by Sunday 11 January if you want to be considered www.wgtn.ac.nz/sam/about/tu...

Nearly time for Patricia Akhimie’s lecture on “Setting Othello,” hosted by @elccprogramme.bsky.social here at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

And then, in the second half of this week, we will be welcoming 50 speakers from around the world for a conference on 18th-century and Romantic studies www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Registration is still open for Patricia Akhimie's lecture next week, so please sign up - we would love to see you there! www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...

We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library! Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...

We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library! Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...

Congratulations Nikki!

One of the great things about the ELCC programme is that we have AMAZING emeritus professors. Here is Professor Heidi Thomson in The Spinoff, talking about Austen thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...

Charles Ferrall will be in Unity Books tomorrow (Tues 21) speaking to his recently released book South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He will be in conversation with Michalia Arathimos. ⛵ Free event–all welcome! ⛵ 21 October, 12:30–1:15pm ⛵ Unity Books Wellington

If you're in Ōtautahi this week, come along and hear ELCC's Anna Jackson in this fabulous lineup!

We seem to be awash in book launches here at ELCC! Please join us on 24 October for "Te Whāriki," edited by Dougal McNeill, Anna Jackson, and Robert Sullivan

Daylight saving is here, it feels like spring, maybe you should grab a copy of the Sunday Star Times and catch up on what the ELCC programme's poet and lecturer Anna Jackson has been reading? www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...

Please join the ELCC programme for the launch of Charles Ferrall's new book this Thursday at Unity! www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Congratulations to our very own Charles Ferrall on his new book! It's being launched at Unity Books on Thurs 18 Sept - hope to see you there

Anna Jackson's new book reviewed on Nine to Noon www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

The ELCC programme's Anna Jackson and Dougal McNeill, along with their co-editor Robert Sullivan, have a new book coming soon! aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/

Last call, THW folks. Anyone in humanities disciplines interested in the 18th or early nineteenth century and its legacies, please send us an abstract!

It's been a pleasure!

We'll be celebrating Anna Jackson's new book of poems tonight at Unity! (PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July) www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Congratulations to former ELCC PhD students Lindsay Hayasaka (nee Morton) and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, who have won the 2025 Susan L Greenberg Prize for the best research paper at the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies)! We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️

Congratulations to Dougal McNeill, whose book "Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature" has been short-listed for the Walter McRae Russell Award for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject! www.asal.org.au/awards/walte...

What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed novel The Mires, currently shortlisted for the Ockhams. You can hear Tina talk about the novel with @dougalmcneill.bsky.social in our Writers on Mondays podcast.

More news about an upcoming conference, hosted by the ELCC programme, focusing on 18th-century & Romantic literature, history, & culture. Colleagues & students from across THW are welcome to attend and/or present, if you have a paper on an 18th or early 19thC topic www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Congratulations @amymarguerite.bsky.social 🎉

ELCC lecturer and poet Anna Jackson’s summer reading highlights 👇☀️📚

We're excited to be hosting this conference later in 2025! There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities

Trimester 1 is nearly upon us, and it's time for a (by no means exhaustive) round-up of what we will be teaching this term 🧵1/3 If any of this looks like you, please join us for classes starting 24 Feb! In our first-year courses: 📚"Introduction to Narrative" ✍️"The Art of Writing"....

A reminder that this PhD scholarship in the ELCC programme will be closing on 1 February. Details are in the link below, but please contact Nikki Hessell if you would like to discuss a proposed dissertation that would fit this scholarship's aims

Gil Ostini is an IIML student and has done a (prize-winning) Masters in Creative Writing with them, but we're going to claim a little piece of him for ELCC as well, as he is also an outstanding graduate of our programme. Fantastic to see you thriving across the road, Gil!

We're so proud of all of our graduates in English and in Literary & Creative Communication who are graduating this week! Looking forward to seeing you and your whānau at the ceremonies 🎉🎉

Just to be clear, Harry's not talking about one of his own books here! But his list is a good insight into his life as a reader thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-12-...

Poet Dani Yourukova reviews Dougal McNeill's "Forms of Freedom" in Takahē. "Each chapter takes turns being accessible, granular, profound, and extraordinarily dense" www.takahe.org.nz/forms-of-fre...

*Please share widely!* Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields: British 18C and/or Romantic poetry Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

ELCC lecturer Tru Paraha was one of the panel that selected Pounamu Jade Aikman as the 2025 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence at the IIML. We're looking forward to meeting Pounamu and learning more about his work www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Dougal McNeill reviews Martin Edmond's "Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports" in Overland overland.org.au/2024/11/true...

We'll be celebrating Fleur Adcock's life and work with a reading this Friday - all poetry lovers welcome

Please join us for this week's ELCC Research Seminar Charles Ferrall, “South by South: New Zealand and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration” Thursday, October 17th, 12:00-12:50pm von Zedlitz 802 Abstract in the thread below 👇

There's going to be a big ELCC programme presence at this wonderful event - if you're in Pōneke this weekend, make sure you register and come along! www.katherinemansfield.com/event/at-the...

I started with English Literature as I’ve always loved reading...As well as my passion for reading, what university gave me is the ability to ask the right question and work out how to get to the answer. It taught me to research and explore options in a structured way www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2024/10...

Please join us for this week's ELCC Research Seminar Dougal McNeill, “Fictions of Intelligence and the Art of Fiction” Thursday, October 10th, 12:00-12:50pm von Zedlitz 802 Abstract in the thread below 👇

Tina Makereti reviews Dougal McNeill's "Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australia Literature" thespinoff.co.nz/books/01-10-...

We have some great research seminars to end tri 2! Seminars are on selected Thursdays, 12-12:50pm, in VZ802 Dougal McNeill, “Fictions of Intelligence and the Art of Fiction” October 10th Charles Ferrall, “South by South: New Zealand and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration” October 17th

Dougal McNeill on Fredric Jameson "Jameson served as an expansive mediator, setting up texts that promised to be an encounter between a moment or text and a diverse set of thinkers." overland.org.au/2024/09/the-...

A reminder that two IIML writing residencies for 2025 are open for applications RIGHT NOW: Writer in Residence (12 months, a salary, a room of your own, closes 30 Sept) and the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence (3 months, $15000 stipend and a mentor, closes 31 Oct) www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

The publication of his acclaimed memoir First Things gives us a great opportunity to hear Harry Ricketts (long-time convenor of our Creative Nonfiction workshop) talk with Damien Wilkins about a lifetime of writing. This Monday, 1215 @Te_Papa (Te Huinga Centre, Lvl 3)

Please join the English Literatures and Creative Communication Programme for a research seminar with doctoral student Austin Haynes on Thursday. Austin will be sharing some of his work on early twentieth-century translations of Shakespeare in te reo Māori. Details below – we hope you can join us!

Open Day was a great chance to meet incoming students! Our 2025 100-level English courses are: ENGL 117-Introduction to Narrative ENGL 111-Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830 And if you're into creative communication we have: LCCM 171: The Art of Writing LCCM 172: Reading & Writing Poetry