Professor Lorna Hutson examines early modern legal and poetic texts to explore the concept of England's 'island nationhood'.

Join us for the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discover the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.

Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.

Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature

Dylan Van Den Berg is an award-winning Palawa writer and dramaturg from the northeast of Lutruwita/Tasmania, with family connections to the Bass Strait Islands where his great-grandmother was born.…

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This book is an invaluable re...

Shakespeare’s characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare’s canon in dialogue with twenty-first-century med...

The star-crossed lovers find themselves in a gun-fuelled urban war in Baz Luhrmann’s high-energy version.

Elemental Melodrama. Guest Editors: Monique Rooney, Gillian Russell and Stefan Solomon. Volume 39, Issue 3 of Textual Practice

Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.

Earlier this year, Circle U. launched a call for projects focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I). Today, we’re proud to present the three initiatives that have been selected for funding. E...

This year’s Stella Prize shortlist is a testament to the importance of truthfulness, painstaking research and the urgency of confronting shame.

The Descartes Centre offers fellowships in order to stimulate intellectual exchange and international cooperation.

William of Orange effectively took over from his father in law, the unpopular James the Second of England, and ruled with his wife Mary, the first and only time a couple were crowned co-monarchs in En...

Cambridge Core - Drama and Theatre: General Interest - Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand

How did fame operate in the past? Arnoud Visser and others explore fame and celebrity in the period from 1450 to 1650.

This one-day symposium hosted by the Gender Institute at the Australian National University, explores texts of the long eighteenth century that, despite their popularity and cultural centrality in the...

NCM is situated on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. We pay respects to them, especially their Elders and storytellers, as well as all First Peoples, nationwide. NCM acknowledges that…