Engagement

2021 

Media 

  • Atherton, C 2021, Interview with Josephine Taylor about Eye of a Rook at Better Read than Dead.
  • Hoon, L, Kendall, E, Phan, T, Redmond, S, Young, H & Yunkaporta, T 2021, ‘More human than human: AI and ethics’, Melbourne Knowledge Week.
  • Little, E & Moruzi, K 2021, ‘Consent in young adult fantasy’, ABC Radio National interview.
  • McAlister, J 2021, ‘The death of romance writer Valerie Parv’, James Valentine – ABC radio.
  • McAlister, J 2021, ‘Representations of virginity loss‘, What Would Danbury Do? (Bridgerton podcast). 
  • McAlister, J 2021, ‘Rom-coms and dating apps’, 2SER interview.
  • Young, H 2021, ‘D&D must grapple with the racism in fantasy‘, Wired, interviewed for and quoted by Cecilia D’Anastasio
  • Young, H 2021, ‘Queer representation in children’s picture books’, Uncommon knowledge, RRR radio interview.

Submissions

  • D’Arcens, L, Kim, D, Monagle, C, Waldek, L & Young, H 2021, ‘Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Inquiry into Extremist Movements’. 

Other

 

  • Ann Vickery delivered the Dorothy Green keynote at the triennial Literary Studies Convention.
  • Maria Takolander’s Trigger Warning (UQP, 2021) was launched virtually at the Geelong Public Library by Greg Day.
  • Paul Venzo and Kristine Moruzi, ed. Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2021) and Michelle Smith and Kristine Moruzi, eds. Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others (University of Wales Press, 2021) were launched.
  • PhD student Claire Gaskin’s Ismene’s Survivable Resistance was published by Puncher and Wattmann.
  • PhD student Nicole Hayes published The Big One!, the latest instalment of her middle-grade AFL Little Legends series, co-authored with Adrian Beck.
  • Katie Hansord’s co-authored Eliza Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier was published by Sydney University Press.
  • Briohny Doyle’s novel Echolalia has been published.
  • Jodi McAlister appeared at SFF fan convention Supanova Melbourne.
  • Sue Chen has been elected President of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR – 2 year term).
  • Master of Arts (Literature and Writing) student Rachael Keene has been shortlisted for the Voices of Women Entanglement competition.
  • PhD student Nicole Hayes had a new book come – the third in her middle-grade Little Legends series, co-written with Adrian Beck.
  • Patrick West has just signed a contract with Routledge for Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story: Literature and the Built Environment after 1900
  • Sue Chen and Emmett Stinson both received Faculty fellowships.
  • Emily Potter presented ‘Placemaking and Belonging’ as part of the ‘Designing Geelong’ public webinar series.
  • Pip May’s Honours artefact, a stage play called MEETING MY MOTHER, has been produced as part of the Queenscliffe Literary Festival and was staged in May.PhD student Luke Jackson had a recently published graphic novel featured in an article in The Guardian.
  • PhD student Claudia Barnett appeared on a panel on fairy tales at the Bendigo Writers’ Festival.
  • Book launch of PhD student Claire Gaskin’s Eurydice Speaks, 6 May.
  • Alumni Tom Sandercock has the book Transgender for Kids: Gender Variance for Young People under contract with Routledge.
  • Alumni Grace Yee had ‘Seek orchards, shelter’, published in Overland 241 (2021).
  • Alumni Autumn Royal read at the launch of Lucy Van’s The Open on 7 May. Autumn’s next poetry collection will be published by Giramondo later in 2021.
  • PhD student Claire Gaskin has published Ismene Speaks (Puncher and Wattmann, 2021)
  • Paul Venzo, “The Venetian Sonnets,” musical adaptation. https://open.spotify.com/album/1l2icL2F0YHrdXKK8cOuhq
  • Andrew Dean’s book launch of Metafiction and the Postwar Novel
  • Maria Takolander’s Trigger Warning was reviewed by The Australian as ‘ruthless and beautiful . . . unusual and fiercely intelligent.’
  • Maria Takolander has done interviews with radio stations in WA, ABC in QLD and RRR.
  • Maria Takolander has book launches are coming up at the State Library of Victoria and the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre at the end of July.
  • PhD Nicole Hayes has a new novel, The Big One (release date 28 July).
  • Masters student Kerry Greer has been shortlisted for Australian Book Review’s Calibre Prize.
  • Recent PhD graduate Lara Hedberg was interviewed on Joy FM about her thesis “Queer Girls, Queer Landscapes in Texts for Young People.”
  • PhD student Gillian Pollack has a new novel, The Green Children Help Out, forthcoming on 23rd July from Madness Heart Press (USA)
  • PhD student Dani Netherclift has published a book review in Mascara and has poetry published in Meniscus

2020

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