DECRA/Senior Lecturer in Lit. Studies, writing a book on WWI in the Austral. Novel & researching a Cold War book program run out of the GDR. Loves 🐈. She/her.
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Big enough to know a censor unconscious: this new tome on East German censorship with a chapter from me (my first in German in quite a while) arrived today. So pleased it got across those closed borders…
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We're not going to let this happen right? What's that new Writing Australia thing for if not for rescuing one of our oldest literary magazines. crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/mea…
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Starting a detective agency to track down whoever is telling students they can’t write in first-person
Oh, finally. I’ve been waiting for this since listening to your @OWALPodcast…
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We are including, for your benefit, an uplifting quotation from our favourite consultants, whom we pay through the nose, but look at the poetry of it.
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Great to see the ARC Bill passed in the Senate today. This means an end to ministerial vetoes on research projects except on national security grounds. No more political interference in research funding at the expense of the humanities. A great outcome! dassh.edu.au/statement-end-t…
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Spread the word! ERC and PhD student conference in London in May!
Dear everyone,
together with @FWWsoc we are organising a Conference for ERCs and PhD students working on all aspects of the First World War on 17 May 2024 at @ihr_history.
Deadline for proposals is 29 March 2024.
Full CfP can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1KVU…
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Finding it pretty extraordinary that a cyber attack has effectively shut down the @britishlibrary for months and there has been remarkably little said about it.
Surely we value a knowledge institution of global significance sufficiently to recognise this is a big deal, no?
This is a huge win. Of course the Board approving grants can still be stacked, but it’s really good to see the ministerial power to veto research grants gone.
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Call for papers: Protesting War in the Twentieth Century. Northumbria University. 13/14 June 2024. Organised with @rgethompson91 Please submit abstracts by 26th January 2024.
ALT Call for papers for 'Protesting War in the Twentieth Century' To be held at Northumbria University on 13/14 June 2024. For a full text readable CFP please email [email protected] .
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Some of the best people in our universities are leaving because of the managerial cruelty of cowardly executives. It’s heartbreaking
Ending academic employment on 27 Oct having started at ACU in 2014, where I taught fabulous, diverse students with the wondrous @MelissaBellanta and more recently @JonPiccini in a collegial environment nourished by Shurlee Swain and sustained by the best colleagues eva.
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English at ANU is hiring 2 fixed-term level B lecturers. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture…
When it’s spring in Canberra and you decide to walk home from Pilates. (Pics show blue sky, golden wattle, a path and kangaroos looking cool and composed for the German girl with her phone.)
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Our ‘Administrative burden at Australian universities’ staff survey is closing on Monday 11 September end of day.
The survey & relevant info can be accessed through this link: blogs.unimelb.edu.au/adminbu…
Please feel free to share the link with any colleagues from across the sector
This is huge, especially (but not only!) for those of us in the Humanities. And you’ve played such an important part in it, @ARC_Tracker!
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Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
