Back to regular programming this week - the ETS seminar will be at 1pm in the JM 4th-floor linkway. Come along to Paul Rae’s talk: ‘The Theatre Trap’ 🪤

In today’s ETS seminar (1pm, JM linkway) we’ll be welcoming Liza Blake, Associate Professor Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University of Toronto Mississauga. Liza’s paper is titled: Arranging Atoms in Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies💫

ETS seminar today at 1pm, fourth-floor linway John Medley. Excited to be hosting Prof. Alexandra Gillespie who is visiting from English & Drama @UTM and presenting on ‘Chaucer’s Books’🪶

Join us today at 1pm in the JM linkway for Lynda Ng (lyndang.bsky.social)’s seminar paper ‘Ishiguro’s Techno-hallucinations: the AI future of Klara and the Sun’ 🤖🌞

Only a handful of plays written by women in the early modern period have survived. But, as @dnmcinnis (@unimelb) + colleagues write, the accounts of Alice Mustian’s raunchy stage show shed light on a surprising playwright and impresario. theconversation.com/in-1614-a-moth…

Some new additions to our bookshelf, from our wonderful new colleagues Lindsay Goss and Michael Falk…! Congratulations both! Stand by for book launches soon…!

We're hiring in medieval! The Stephen Knight Lectureship in Medieval Literature is a new, philanthropically funded 5-year T&R position honouring our dear colleague Stephen and his exceptional contributions to medieval scholarship: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/917464/…

Excited to be hosting Huw Griffiths in the coming semester. Huw will be running a pedagogy masterclass and delivering the first ETS seminar for this series - details below! 🍎📚

The ETS seminar series is back for semester 2! Opening with Huw Griffiths' paper 'The Afterlives of a Queer Pirate: Reading Antonio in Early Modernity' this Wednesday at 4:30pm. Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1O4… Image credit: Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 1957

Congratulations Alexis!!

Congratulations to the wonderful Alexis Wright, former Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Lit!

Congratulations to English & Theatre Studies graduate André Dao on winning the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Fiction) for his debut novel, *Anam*! abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

A wealthy nobleman? Treacherous friends? Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens has it all. That’s why Bell Shakespeare is tackling the lesser-known work for their popular series, Play In A Day at this year’s Being Human Festival. Explore the festival program→ unimelb.me/3ez5jCC

ETS’s Michael Falk and his UTS colleagues in The Conversation: ‘We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history’ theconversation.com/we-analysed-35…?

Reminder that the wonderful Molly Yarn is giving the Ian Donaldson Memorial Lecture this coming Friday! Their Substance Still Lives Sweet: Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors' and Legacy Faculty of Arts eventbrite.com.au/e/their-substa…

Congratulations Michael! 😊

Dr Mairi Stirling Hill appointed as the Stephen Knight Lecturer in Medieval Literature! 🙂 arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/dr-mairi-…

Congratulations to Lil Mansergh, whose final project for the Capstone subject in English & Theatre Studies last year (ENGL30052) has just been published in Overland Journal! overland.org.au/2024/11/poetic…

ETS’s Sara Fernandes and UoW’s Lauren Weber in The Conversation: ‘Hidden women of history: the Australian children’s author who captured the bush –before May Gibbs’ Australiana empire’ theconversation.com/hidden-women-o…