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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 · Feb 15

Congratulations to ANU English's Una McIlvenna, who has been awarded a competitive research travel grant to the Lewis Walpole Library! Congrats Una! 💪

Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Feb 15

Thrilled to announce that I’ve won a Lewis Walpole Library Travel Grant which will fund two weeks research in this beautiful library in Connecticut! Looking forward to exploring their amazing collections of 18th-century political ballads 🎶🎵
walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...

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

The first issue of the 18C literature journal The Shandean is out! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...
Amelia Dale (ANU English) is part of an int'l editorial team, with Jakub Lipski & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki), Helen Williams (Northumbria) & Alexander Hobday (Cambridge)

Image of 3 eighteenth-century men from the cover of the novel Tristram Shandy

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

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! 🥳

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m pleased to have been shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for my proposed biography: A Medium Through Which Others May See: The Life and Legacy of Ruth Park.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 22

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-philo...

Film-Philosophy Special Issue Launch: Malabou, Plasticity and Film

Join us for the launch of a Film-Philosophy Special Issue with guest Catherine Malabou.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 22

You can register either through the QR code or the link in the first comment.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 19

REMINDER: CALC online event tomorrow! Mark McGurl (Stanford) & Joseph Steinberg (UWA) discuss Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon in relation to smaller-scale contexts like Australia. Email: [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....

In conversation with Mark McGurl

Join Joseph Steinberg for a conversation with Mark McGurl

slll.cass.anu.edu.au

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 18

All welcome this Thursday (November 21) for a Zoom seminar featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia). Contact [email protected] for zoom link. Full details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 18

Ruth Park was haunted by the spectre of Eve Langley, author of The Pea Pickers (originally titled The Australian Peasant). I wrote about Park, Langley, and the idea of literary community here: open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...

Reaping Her Words in Solitariness:

Ruth Park, Eve Langley and Literary Un-Community

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Sean Pryor @seanbpryor.bsky.social · Nov 18

UNSW ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR

Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story"

Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus

No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’ve started a Substack! I’ll be writing about my two current projects: Brow Network, which explores how “taste” is changing in a world of dissolving hierarchies, and my biography-in-progress of the brilliant Pacific region writer Ruth Park. Follow along here: substack.com/@moniquerooney.

Monique Rooney | Substack

I’m a literary studies scholar and writer at ANU. I am working ontwo projects: Brow Network (Iowa UP) and a biography of Ruth Park. On Substack, I share research, writing-in-progress, and thoughts on ...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 16

This morning

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 15

All welcome to an online event hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures, featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia)

21 November 2024, 4.30pm – 6pm AEST, contact [email protected] for zoom link.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Feb 8

📢 Announcing the first conference on Ruth Park, ANU, Feb 14-16! Papers covering topics from sex and gender in her writing to “celtic colonialsm,” themes of shame, pride, and more! Attend online or in-person: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Jan 25

Fiona Kelly McGregor is delivering the ASAL Patron’s lecture on Wednesday February 14, 5-7pm. This lecture is part of the @ASAustLit mini-conference on Ruth Park c/o @CopyrightAgency, @ANU_RSHA and @ANUslll. Register for in person or zoom attendance. slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Dec 7

ChatGPT and other text generators have become a condition of contemporary writing. A feature of any writing process is the temporary stepping away from what writing. Something invariably happens, opens up, is generated at such a moment. But ChatGPT cannot step away from and then return to itself.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Dec 3

Who is on this “archive committee”?

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Dec 3

Rory Niland, literary executor of Park’s papers, wants to see the biography before it is published, but he’s not an “archive committee”.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 28

I enjoyed Susanna Fogel’s “Cat Person” (2023). It’s interesting because the film’s Margot seems to be a composite of author Kristen Roupenian’s Margot, in the story published in the New Yorker, and the real “Margot” who subsequently told her story in a piece published in Slate. And it works.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 25

“My mother is as close to me, and as hidden from me, as my own face …”. This closing sentence of the Prologue to Davidson’s book reminds me of words that I read somewhere … perhaps in one of Susan Stewart’s books (?) … about how we try but never do properly see our own face.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 19

Have now already made my new year’s resolution: slow down.

Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · Nov 19

a beautiful sign made and installed by my neighbours in Wybalena Grove located in the “bush capital” of Canberra, Australia.

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