Ann Vickery

Associate Professor Ann Vickery is Head of Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin. She is currently working on a large project investigating the role of women writers and artists of the New York School 1950–1965, and another investigating the role of poetry in feminist and queer formations of the late twentieth and early twentieth century. She co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network (with Lorraine Sim and James Smith), and was a founding member and editor-in-chief of HOW2: A Journal of Innovative Writing and Scholarship. She has been a past poetry editor of Puncher and Wattmann and continues to be a consulting editor. She has also been managing editor of Journal of Poetics Research, and is a member of Deakin’s Contemporary Histories Research Group.

Ann is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000), Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry (2007), The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (2014), and Devious Intimacy (2015). She co-authored The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (2009), and co-edited Poetry and Trace (2013), along with features issues of Southerly on contemporary diasporic and postcolonial Australian poetry (2013) and Affirmations: On the Modern (2014), on modernism, intimacy and emotion. In 2013, she edited a special issue of Cordite Poetry Review (“Masque”). In 2018 Ann co-convened the Australian Women and Gender Studies Association/Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Association conference with Dr Daniel Marshall and Emma Whatman.

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