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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I’ve written a short piece on Substack about how my biography of Ruth Park began. open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...

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How the Biography Began

On Permission, Process, and Not Boring the Reader

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Next week I’ll be sharing online work from my Ruth Park biography-in-progress: Final CALC seminar for the year — Thurs 6 Nov, 4–5.30 pm (AEDT) Hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @ ANU. More info: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc... For Zoom details: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Recordings of our two recent @calc-anu.bsky.social seminars are now available Ken Gelder on unhomely Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kv0... and @jackquirk.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane youtu.be/eKFwHbxy2m4?... Terrific sessions— enjoy

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Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius

YouTube video by Arts & Social Sciences at ANU

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stefansolomon.bsky.social @stefansolomon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film

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Textual Practice

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

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Congratulations to ANU English's Una McIlvenna, who has been awarded a competitive research travel grant to the Lewis Walpole Library! Congrats Una! 💪

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The first issue of the 18C literature journal The Shandean is out! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan... Amelia Dale (ANU English) is part of an int'l editorial team, with Jakub Lipski & Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki), Helen Williams (Northumbria) & Alexander Hobday (Cambridge)

Image of 3 eighteenth-century men from the cover of the novel Tristram Shandy

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

So proud that ANU English's @tynedaile.bsky.social has been voted by the Aus Academy of Humanities as a Rising Star! humanities.org.au/power-of-the... Tyne is a DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities on a project about the relationship between modern fiction & surveillance. Congrats Tyne! 🥳

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Publication klaxon 🎺: Bridget Vincent of ANU English has a recent article out in Modern Fiction Studies: "Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay", vol. 70 no. 3. Congratulations Bridget! 🥳 🥳 🥳 muse.jhu.edu/article/942200

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m pleased to have been shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for my proposed biography: A Medium Through Which Others May See: The Life and Legacy of Ruth Park.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

You can register either through the QR code or the link in the first comment.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

REMINDER: CALC online event tomorrow! Mark McGurl (Stanford) & Joseph Steinberg (UWA) discuss Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon in relation to smaller-scale contexts like Australia. Email: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. Details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc....

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In conversation with Mark McGurl

Join Joseph Steinberg for a conversation with Mark McGurl

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

All welcome this Thursday (November 21) for a Zoom seminar featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia). Contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link. Full details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ruth Park was haunted by the spectre of Eve Langley, author of The Pea Pickers (originally titled The Australian Peasant). I wrote about Park, Langley, and the idea of literary community here: open.substack.com/pub/moniquer...

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Reaping Her Words in Solitariness:

Ruth Park, Eve Langley and Literary Un-Community

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Sean Pryor @seanbpryor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

UNSW ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR Sophie Gee (Princeton and Sydney), "The Secret Life of Books: A Literary Love Story" Wednesday, 20 November, 3:00 p.m. Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus No need to register, and everyone's welcome. Come along!

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’ve started a Substack! I’ll be writing about my two current projects: Brow Network, which explores how “taste” is changing in a world of dissolving hierarchies, and my biography-in-progress of the brilliant Pacific region writer Ruth Park. Follow along here: substack.com/@moniquerooney.

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Monique Rooney | Substack

I’m a literary studies scholar and writer at ANU. I am working ontwo projects: Brow Network (Iowa UP) and a biography of Ruth Park. On Substack, I share research, writing-in-progress, and thoughts on ...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

All welcome to an online event hosted by the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures, featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia) 21 November 2024, 4.30pm – 6pm AEST, contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

📢 Announcing the first conference on Ruth Park, ANU, Feb 14-16! Papers covering topics from sex and gender in her writing to “celtic colonialsm,” themes of shame, pride, and more! Attend online or in-person: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Fiona Kelly McGregor is delivering the ASAL Patron’s lecture on Wednesday February 14, 5-7pm. This lecture is part of the @ASAustLit mini-conference on Ruth Park c/o @CopyrightAgency, @ANU_RSHA and @ANUslll. Register for in person or zoom attendance. slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/windo...

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

ChatGPT and other text generators have become a condition of contemporary writing. A feature of any writing process is the temporary stepping away from what writing. Something invariably happens, opens up, is generated at such a moment. But ChatGPT cannot step away from and then return to itself.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I enjoyed Susanna Fogel’s “Cat Person” (2023). It’s interesting because the film’s Margot seems to be a composite of author Kristen Roupenian’s Margot, in the story published in the New Yorker, and the real “Margot” who subsequently told her story in a piece published in Slate. And it works.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

“My mother is as close to me, and as hidden from me, as my own face …”. This closing sentence of the Prologue to Davidson’s book reminds me of words that I read somewhere … perhaps in one of Susan Stewart’s books (?) … about how we try but never do properly see our own face.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

a beautiful sign made and installed by my neighbours in Wybalena Grove located in the “bush capital” of Canberra, Australia.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

JOB. Associate Professor (in Australia a senior position) in Contemporary and / or Popular Literature. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

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Details : Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

today’s goal: address bone muscle finger strength weakened due to lack of handwriting.

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Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

A “cinematic masterpiece in TV form” amp.abc.net.au/article/1030...

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