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Introducing our new podcast, From the Lighthouse! Subscribe via iTunes or see more here: fromthelighthouse.org

We are launching Mykaela Saunders's short story collection Always Will Be this Friday 28 June at midday! Details here: thequarryjournal.com.au/upcoming/mykae…

MQ academics; I'll be running a session for UG on 'finding the best resources for your assignment', Mar 4. Spread the word on Ilearn etc please, sign up for this and others on this link students.mq.edu.au/support/study/…

Come study with the leaders in English language and literature in the country!

This week we were joined by @drneildurrant to discuss his new book on Nietzsche, friendship and contest podbean.com/ew/pb-3r79j-14…

New book by @MQEnglish's own Roberta Kwan: Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakespea…

WAAC (women's abortion action campaign) received a cultural grant to digitize records from 1972 - . We now have this open access resource indexed in Multisearch multisearch.mq.edu.au/permalink/61MA… #righttochoose #womenempowerment @MQsociology @MQEnglish @mq_dha

NEW on SRB this week: @_louisklee and Christian Gelder on Alain Badiou. '[But] Badiou’s arrival in Sydney was, in some sense, the opening of a remarkable and unlikely chapter in Australian intellectual life.' sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/the-anti…

✨Just announced! ✨ We are delighted to be hosting @WilloDrummond for our next WestTalks: Author in Conversation! Willo will be in conversation with Michelle Hamadache, discussing her exquisite book Moon Wrasse, published by @PuncherWattmann. events.humanitix.com/westtalks-in-c…

Getting started with your MRes or PhD? Just started supervising a new grad researcher? Don't forget to sign up for #GRR - Get research ready: who, what, where, how? Learn all about the resources available to grad researchers at MQ, Fri 19 May, 2-4pm: myrdc.mq.edu.au/registration/n…

Kristin Grogan and I are editing a special issue of Women's Writing on Laura Riding. Please circulate and/or send us your papers! 🙏🙏

I am giving a paper for @MQEnglish this coming Thursday at 1:30-2:30 on Clifford W. Beers's book A Mind That Found Itself, which the psychiatrist Fred Conzelmann claimed 'represents the emergence of a new science, the science of mental health’.

How does travel and living in-between cultures shape research? In this panel CALD scholars share stories behind their academic/creative research and their international backgrounds. Speakers: Chavalin Svetanant, Iqbal Barkat, @sihirperempuan May 4th, 2023 |3pm |10 HA Drama Studio

Kylie Needham reading from her fabulous new novel Girl in a Pink Dress, which is being launched at Macquarie University tonight!

Many of these essays initially began life as part of a symposium I organised at @writing_society in 2016 called "Coetzee's Other Worlds". It's exciting to see this finally out in the world. @USydSLC @MQEnglish

.@BGriffenFoley on Menzies and the media on the Robert Menzies Institute podcast robertmenziesinstitute.org.au/afternoon-ligh…

With real delicacy and care they’ve crafted us together into Peribiophoty - a film article which will be screening this Friday 6pm at MQ (get in touch with the @CDRC_MQ for deets). So grateful to these masters of screen for their work. @mq_dha @MediaCommsMQ

More than a year ago the incredible @karen_pearlman, Tom Murray & Alex Ryan (and their wonderful production team) filmed Hsu-Ming Teo, Rowan Tulloch, @malfy_c, @DrStephR & myself rambling about (re)imagined histories personal & otherwise.

Honoured to join @MQEnglish for a magical Midsummer Night’s Dream soirée (& especially chuffed to get to throw down with @DrStephR as Hermia & Helena). Bravo everyone & thanks to Michelle Hamadache for organising such a great event for the Discipline of Literature! 🧚‍♀️🧚🏼‍♂️👸🏼🤴🏻✨🌝🧚

Associate Professor Paul Sheehan kicks off the activities at our first annual English and Creative Writing Welcome Event!