Thrilled to announce that celebrated US poet Rae Armantrout is visiting ANU English in September! Her masterclass at ourANU is already booked out, but check the details below for other events ✨✨✨

Close Reading for the 21C has been approved for publication by the board at Princeton University Press. The book includes a three-part introduction by Johanna Winant & I: What Close Reading Is; What Close Reading Does; and What Close Reading Has Been. See 🧵 for contributors

The next paper in our aaDH Seminar Series! 👁 📚 💫 💻 Topic: Embedding Irishness in Australian Literature Speakers: Prof Kath Bode & A/Prof Maggie Nolan Thursday 5th September, 1 pm - 2 pm AEDT (Zoom) Register: shorturl.at/cvITU Details below!

This is going to be v cool: Join Dr Kate Flaherty, Senior Lecturer in ANU English & actors from Bell Shakespeare at National Library of Australia on 20 Sep as they uncover one of the most amusing & successful literary hoaxes of all time - the Vortigern Hoax! FREE tix here: nla.gov.au/whats-on/event…

Permanent whole-time job in my department! Callooh, Callay. UCC English seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Literature and Empire. ucc.ie/en/future-huma…

'Towards the West ll' 1986 by #basilblackshaw Acrylic on paper 36×29in.

Last time the BBC did this, we mocked them so hard they changed the headline to include the perpetrator. Let's see if we can do it again.

Open door onto a garden scene. House of the Fruit Orchard, #Pompeii #FrescoFriday

Well that’s my Friday made! Called into No Alibis Bookstore for a mooch and poetry legends Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby are just sitting there. Great to have a catch up and another reason to keep visiting, as you never know who will meet apart from the wonderful David.

From David Pope in Canberra Times

An article by me is open access in a special issue of Textual Practice edited by monique rooney Stefan Solomon and myself. Special issue out soon. Great to work with Monique, Stefan and our wonderful contributors. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My article on Danny Boyle's SUNSHINE as 'solar melodrama' is out now, Open Access in Textual Practice, ahead of the special issue I edited together with monique rooney and Gillian Russell on 'Elemental Melodrama': tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Mano Yogalingham, 23yrold father from Sri Lanka, fled to Aus 2013, denied refugee status following Abbott’s narrower definition of a refugee, left stranded on bridging visa over 10yrs, set himself alight & passed away.😢Our immigration system is shameful abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

Rae Armantrout in Australia. Brought to you by ANU Research School of Humanities & the Arts with ANU SLLL ANU Centre for Australian Literary Cultures ANU English ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences The Street Theatre Email: monique rooney [email protected] or [email protected] for all enquiries.

The Galloway Hoard was discovered by detectorist Derek McLennan at Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, #OTD in 2014. Deposited around AD 900, it is both Scotland’s earliest Viking-Age hoard and the richest ever found in Britain and Ireland. ©National Museums Scotland

Congratulations to Matt Townend, who has just published 'The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore'. The book tells the story of the Victorians’ discovery of English #dialect, and of the revaluation of regional #language. tinyurl.com/msrf9bve

Don’t miss upcoming events with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout this week and next! If you’d like to attend the in-conversation session with Kate Lilley this Thursday 12 September via Zoom, please contact [email protected] for the link. monique rooney

Exemplary reporting indeed. I can't believe that Kate Lamble has been made redundant by the BBC. Kate Lamble

Just out. The new Charles Lamb Society journal. If you join the society you get two print editions each year. Joining details are on the society webpage.

My article on CATS as melodrama of the upper atmosphere is out now, Open Access in Textual Practice, ahead of the special issue I edited together with Gillian Russell and @stefansolomon7 on 'Elemental Melodrama': tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…