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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Feb 11

Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the department of English at the Australian National University. We're currently ranked 28 in the QS Global Rankings! 🎉🎉🎉
Please follow us to find out about all the exciting things we’re up to! 😎
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QS World University Rankings for English Language and Literature 2024

Discover the world's top universities for English Language and Literature. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject in various disciplines.

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 17d

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...

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 20d

Do it! Such fun!

English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

This was a really tough exercise! Some of my choices are obvious: A Gentleman in Moscow and Fingersmith regularly feature on lists of top books, but some are less so. Vernon God Little and Skippy Dies were both recommended to me by my brother Stephen who is an excellent judge - Paul Murray was recognised for The Bee Sting, but I prefer Skippy! Both will make you sob as you laugh hysterically, which is my top quality in a book. The early modernist in me easily recommends Wolf Hall: Mantel's research is that of a top scholar but she wears her learning so lightly. I discovered Circe (the retelling of the Odyssey story through her eyes) and Station Eleven through tutoring high school students (top marks for the Victorian Department of Education!). Question 7 and Lincoln in the Bardo both had me bawling openly in very public places, while David Sedaris' description of trying to learn French in France with the most terrifying teacher ever will have you screaming with laughter: the title of his book Me Talk Pretty One Day is an indication of how badly he did...

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 22d

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
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Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National

Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Sep 4

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:
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Sep 3

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! 🥳
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Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Aug 2

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:
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GETTING TO KNOW: PLAYWRIGHT DYLAN VAN DEN BERG IN CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA CLODE

Dylan Van Den Berg is an award-winning Palawa writer and dramaturg from the northeast of Lutruwita/Tasmania, with family connections to the Bass Strait Islands where his great-grandmother was born.…

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Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jul 31

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:

Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · Jul 31

Interested in #Shakespeare & environmental justice? Register (free!) to join the Globe4Globe 2025 Symposium: online, 12-13 Sep 2025. An incredible line-up of speakers from across the globe, supported by Shakespeare's Globe & ANU's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Jul 22

A reminder that I'm presenting at this with Ruby Lowe on Thurs 24 July, 5pm Melb time:
'Hearing the News - how ballad singers, pampheteers and orators took the news to the people in the pre-modern world' It's free and online - book here:
www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_july_202...

18th-century drawing of street singer in rags selling a ballad on the street

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jul 24

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! 🥳

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Iran in Finnegans Wake

Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This book is an invaluable re...

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jul 13

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:
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Congrats Rosanne and Ben!

English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jun 17

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:
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‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear

Shakespeare’s characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare’s canon in dialogue with twenty-first-century med...

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Jun 4

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! 🎶 🎶 🎶

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jun 3

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!

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jun 3

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)

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Book Club: Romeo + Juliet

The star-crossed lovers find themselves in a gun-fuelled urban war in Baz Luhrmann’s high-energy version.

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stefansolomon.bsky.social @stefansolomon.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

Textual Practice

Elemental Melodrama. Guest Editors: Monique Rooney, Gillian Russell and Stefan Solomon. Volume 39, Issue 3 of Textual Practice

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's Day 5 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#5: 'Advanced Creative Writing' examines discourse about the significance of literary & genre fiction, & disputes about the category of value in interpretative methods. Students design, edit & publish a literary journal!

English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Jun 2

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:
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Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize with a genre-bending questioning of art and expectation

Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.

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Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social · May 26

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

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Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social · May 29

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...

Large Language Models and Literature | American Comparative Literature Association

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · May 30

It's Day 4 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2!
#4: 'Literature & Modernity' reveals the breadth & diversity of modernist expression in its response to the rapid changes of the period that transformed everything from gender & sexuality to the politics of race & class.

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