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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Next up in our research seminars, we have our Elegies event, Thurs 26 March, 9am-11:45am, at the Stout Centre at Te Herenga Waka. The event features talks by Danielle Clark (University College Dublin) & Nikki Hessell & Bonnie Etherington (THW) To RSVP, please contact Alastair Baldwin

Elegy is one of the most enduring and mobile of poetic modes, from ancient to modern
times. Our half-day symposium brings together expertise from Te Herenga Waka and
afar to consider the workings, implications, and affordances of elegy, from the
quotidian, familial, and social, to the metaphysical, political, and environmental.
Speakers:
Professor Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin
“Every elegie drawes some teare”: the multiplicity of early modern elegy
This talk considers the many modalities of early modern elegy, alongside a
consideration of its insistent recourse to metaphorical ways of imagining loss –
numbers, landscapes, humours, planets, stars, dust, earth, stones. I will discuss
poems by Katherine Phillips, Hester Pulter, Lucy Hutchinson, Mary Sidney, Countess of
Pembroke, Rachel Fane, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Carey, Aemilia Lanyer, and Anne
Southwell. My examples will focus on affect, numbers, erotic elegy and eco-grief – both
contemporary and early modern.
Professor Nikki Hessell, Te Herenga Waka
Elegy Written in a Country Council Grove, in work from her Marsden project on The
Poetics of Treaties: Settler Treaty-Making and Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Dr Bonnie Etherington, Te Herenga Waka
Submerged Stories of Logging By-Products: The Environmental Elegiac in Omar
Musa’s Killernova (2021), in work from her Marsden project on Literatures of
Environment and Disability from Oceania
ALL WELCOME
PLEASE RSVP for catering purposes to
Alastair.Baldwin@vuw.ac.nz

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And at third year? The Renaissance of the Self (ENGL) New Zealand Literature (ENGL) Forms of Creative Communication: The Essay at Large (LCCM)

The cover of Grace Yee's book Chinese Fish

The cover of the Penguin Edition of Milton's Paradise Lost

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

At second year, we're teaching: The Art of the Essay: Critical, Public, Personal (LCCM) Dark and Stormy Nights: Gothic Literature (ENGL) Modern Poetry (ENGL)

Cover of a modern edition of Wuthering Heights

A photograph of the NZ poet Fleur Adcock

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We're getting ready to welcome our students on Monday! Here's a little thread of what they'll be reading this trimester, starting with our first-year courses in the English and Literary & Creative Communication majors: Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830 (ENGL) The Art of Writing (LCCM)

Cover of Te Moana o Reo: Ocean of Languages

Cover of Ko Aotearoa Tātao: We are New Zealand

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Nearly time for Patricia Akhimie’s lecture on “Setting Othello,” hosted by @elccprogramme.bsky.social here at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Photograph of the Hunter Council Chamber, a grand lecture hall. On the screen is the opening slide of Prof Alkhimie’s talk, which shows an image of a Black woman superimposed on a painting of the Venetian canals

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Charles Ferrall will be in Unity Books tomorrow (Tues 21) speaking to his recently released book South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He will be in conversation with Michalia Arathimos. ⛵ Free event–all welcome! ⛵ 21 October, 12:30–1:15pm ⛵ Unity Books Wellington

Photo of Charles Ferrall, with the author talk details that are included in the post

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We seem to be awash in book launches here at ELCC! Please join us on 24 October for "Te Whāriki," edited by Dougal McNeill, Anna Jackson, and Robert Sullivan

Invitation to book launch at Unity Books, Fri 24 October, 6pm

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Congratulations to former ELCC PhD students Lindsay Hayasaka (nee Morton) and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, who have won the 2025 Susan L Greenberg Prize for the best research paper at the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies)! We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️

An image of the certificate awarding the 2025 prize to Lindsay and Mehdy. The title of their paper is "Mapping the Tides of Style: A Computational Comparison of 'Quarterly Essay' and 'Longform Journalism'

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Congratulations to Dougal McNeill, whose book "Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature" has been short-listed for the Walter McRae Russell Award for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject! www.asal.org.au/awards/walte...

Cover of Dougal McNeill's book "Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature"

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵3/3 In our third-year courses: 🗻"Romantic Literature" 🗽"American Literature: 20th Century" 🌱"Writing Ecologies"

Cover of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧵2/3 In our second-year courses: 🌔"Dark Unknowing in Māori Literature" 📰"Literature & Journalism" 🏵️"Modernist Literature"

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trimester 1 is nearly upon us, and it's time for a (by no means exhaustive) round-up of what we will be teaching this term 🧵1/3 If any of this looks like you, please join us for classes starting 24 Feb! In our first-year courses: 📚"Introduction to Narrative" ✍️"The Art of Writing"....

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We're so proud of all of our graduates in English and in Literary & Creative Communication who are graduating this week! Looking forward to seeing you and your whānau at the ceremonies 🎉🎉

Photograph of Wellington Harbour, taken from above Oriental Parade

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

We'll be celebrating Fleur Adcock's life and work with a reading this Friday - all poetry lovers welcome

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Please join us for this week's ELCC Research Seminar Charles Ferrall, “South by South: New Zealand and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration” Thursday, October 17th, 12:00-12:50pm von Zedlitz 802 Abstract in the thread below 👇

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

We have some great research seminars to end tri 2! Seminars are on selected Thursdays, 12-12:50pm, in VZ802 Dougal McNeill, “Fictions of Intelligence and the Art of Fiction” October 10th Charles Ferrall, “South by South: New Zealand and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration” October 17th

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Open Day was a great chance to meet incoming students! Our 2025 100-level English courses are: ENGL 117-Introduction to Narrative ENGL 111-Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830 And if you're into creative communication we have: LCCM 171: The Art of Writing LCCM 172: Reading & Writing Poetry

A photo of English Literatures and Creative Communication staff meeting students at Te Herenga Waka's 2025 Open Day

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

English Honours graduate Melissa Oliver (Ngāti Porou) and current bookseller at Unity Books in Wellington has won the Emerging Bookseller of the Year at the 2024 NZ Book Industry Awards!! Congratulations Melissa

A photo of a woman in glasses, smiling, holding a bouquet of flowers and a certificate, in front of a shelf full of books.

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

It's a huge pleasure to welcome Dr Tru Paraha (Ngāti Hineāmaru, Ngāti Kahu o Torongare) as our new colleague in Māori literature in the ELCC programme. She'll be teaching Public Writing this year, but stay tuned for new courses in Māori writing in 2025! Nau mai, haere mai Tru

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

The ELCC programme is profoundly sad to hear that Emeritus Professor Vincent O'Sullivan has passed away. One of the great NZ writers across genres & a respected teacher & colleague. This photo is on the 9th floor of VZ, taken when he was Writer in Residence. Our condolences to his whānau

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

The ELCC programme has been well-represented at the RSAA 2023 conference in Melbourne, with students Samuel Chitty, Phoebe Pierard & Pearl Kennedy presenting papers, as well as lecturer Nikki Hessell

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Our brilliant colleague Sarah Ross will be speaking at Otago/on zoom next week about King Charles I in the State Library of Victoria's John Emerson Collection - see details in the announcement below

Announcement of talk by Sarah Ross, 11 Oct at 5:30 in Archway 2 (Otago campus) or find the zoom link at blogs.otago.ac.nz/cfb

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Gorgeously sunny Pōneke Friday. A good day for some poetry! Come and hear Jackson McCarthy, Aroha Witinitara, Margo Montes de Oca and Jake Arthur in vZ802, 4pm.

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

"An Afternoon as Ourselves": we are marking 50 years since WH Auden's death with a poetry reading in the Department. Join Aroha Witinitara, Jake Arthur, Margo Montes de Oca and Jackson McCarthy for new poems in honour of an old poet, Friday 29th Sept, 4pm, vZ802

A photo of the poet WH Auden accompanying an announcement of a poetry reading with the same detail as this post

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