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24.01.2022 Congratulations to Danielle Wood - aka Minnie Darke - on the publication of Star Crossed! Get yours now (I got mine signed).

24.01.2022 Folks looking for English units in Sem 2, look no further than HEN210/310 Shakespeare: Page, Stage and Screen! We'll be thinking about racism, sexual politics, ambition, tyranny, the power of language and the arts. All pretty useful stuff for encountering this brave new world (that's a Shakespeare ref btw). This unit, like all at UTAS, will be taught online until we can return to campus. https://www.utas.edu.au//hen210-shakespeare-page,-stage-an

23.01.2022 Check out what is on offer from UTAS English in 2020, including exciting new units and the return of some classic favourites. Shakespeare, Australian lit, Children's lit, creative writing, and more!

20.01.2022 Friends of UTAS English, you are warmly invited to this free public lecture!

19.01.2022 Make a Future that Matters! Study Honours Humanities in Place Engagement Scholarships 2020 The Humanities in Place Engagement Scholarships (HiPES) program is an... exciting initiative of the School of Humanities, in the College of Arts, Law and Education (CALE) at University of Tasmania. The HiPES Program offers Honours students access to the materials and expertise of some of Tasmania’s leading cultural and environmental institutions as part of their research program. The Program seeks to match Humanities students with exciting projects in the cultural and heritage workplace and industry. Participating organisations may include: the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Port Arthur Historic Site; Morris Miller Library; and the Heritage Tasmania and Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. HiPES aim to prepare graduates to be work-ready and to inspire them to apply their research skills to industry. Each year successful applicants undertake their Honours research under the joint supervision of an academic from their home discipline and a specialist from the industry or cultural institution. Three scholarships are available. Amount: $5000. Due date: 31 January 2020. Contact: Applicants should contact Humanities in Place Industry Engagement Scholarships Coordinator, Assoc. Professor Penny Edmonds on [email protected] who will provide advice on the proposed project. For details around eligibility and due dates and how to apply please see the link: https://info.scholarships.utas.edu.au/AwardDetails.aspx Projects: With the support of a UTAS Humanities supervisor and a partner institution staff member, HiPES recipients will explore and research one of the Honours research projects listed below. In addition to producing a written Honours thesis, students may also create a blog, an online exhibit or educational material, gaining a range of disciplinary and workplace-related skills. An 1830s Playlist: Culture and Music in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania The State Library of Tasmania archives collection holds three volumes of sheet music that was collected and bound in Tasmania in the 1830s. This rare collection of music represents a fascinating early colonial ‘playlist’. The research project offers exciting interdisciplinary opportunities to investigate culture and music in nineteenth-century Tasmania, the history of music as entertainment, or the interconnections between performance and the music trade in this period, in both colonial Tasmania and the wider world. Students will learn to develop an understanding of the significance of this collection and its context within the cultural landscape of the time. Performance and Theatre: ‘A Tasmanian Bushranger in London’ This project explores a curious theatre playbill held in the archives of the State Library of Tasmania to promote the first play about Tasmania performed in London: Michael Howe The Terror of Van Diemen’s Land! The script for the play has not yet been found. This evocative document offers research opportunities to analyse the imaginings of Van Diemen’s Land from London through theatrical performance, and the potential for imaginative reconstruction of a text. Other playbills and texts of this period may also be analysed. Digging into Diaries: Networked Lives in the Archives The State Library of Tasmania holds many fascinating diaries and journals. Students will research and transcribe one (or part of one) of these and use this as a jumping-off point for a project to map the person’s ‘imperial life’ through travel and/or correspondence. In this way, the project will focus on using archives and studying ‘networked’ imperial histories or imperial biographies and group biographies in the 19th c. Outcomes will include experience in transcription and exploration of how a single diary or journal may be mapped and contextualised. Journals: NS1011 Peter Oldham, 18511855; NS213/1Jane Williams (Née Reid), 18361843 (linked to Clyde Company); NS2739 Henry Williams, Sea Voyages (Tasmania, NZ, Pacific, California), 1845-1850. Activist and Political Lives: Explore the Christine Milne Collection On retirement from federal politics, former senator for Tasmania, leader of the Greens, and activist Christine Milne AO donated items to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. This Honours thesis project will examine the Milne collection through the eyes of the donor, and may consider a range of questions around biography, politics, leadership, environment and gender. Milne’s autobiography An Activist’s Life, tells her story through these key objects. Students will learn to prepare two to three significance assessments of key objects to develop an understanding of the significance of this collection and its context within the political landscape. The collection could be considered as a whole or examined through material specific to the Lake Pedder and/or Franklin environmental campaigns. Political Protest from the 1970s to Now This project will research parts of a significant collection of environmental and protest-related material in the history and photographic collections at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. A project around a number of exciting collections including material from high-profile political figures and organisations from different campaigns from the 1970s to the present may be crafted. This project fits within the TMAG Cultural Heritage 10-year Strategic Plan and offers preliminary research into the upcoming exhibition Protest. Students will learn to assess the collection, research other comparative collections, and prepare two to three significance assessments of key objects to develop an understanding of the significance of this collection and its context within the political landscape. Sarah Mitchell: Artist and Lady Traveller This project will explore colonial traveller Sarah Mitchell’s artworks and diaries, held in the collections of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the special collections at UTAS. Sarah Mitchell (18531946) kept a journal from the ages of 13 to 93 and recounts her travel in Tasmania, her art, and her journies. The project may be crafted around colonial women, gender, travel, artistic lives and related themes. Students will gain some curatorial experience and learn to prepare two to three significance assessments for these artworks to develop an understanding of the significance of this collection and its context within the social, historical and artistic landscape of the time.

17.01.2022 Writers, take note of this fantastic prize.

10.01.2022 Hi from the English team to everyone who enrolled in English in semester 1! Semester 2 is just around the corner. As usual, HEN102 English 1B and HEN104 Creative Writing Workshop 1 are on offer. So too are HEN215/315 Reading the Screen and HEN305 Utopian and Dystopian Fictions, as well as HEN204/324 "Creative Writing Workshop 2" and XBR201 The Art of Persuasion. Some folks have wondered if HEN315 is still available for the English major this year. The answer is YES. I...f you want to enrol in HEN315 and have it count towards your major, then contact Rob Clarke ([email protected]) and he will tell you how to get around the gremlins in the enrolment system. Good luck in semester 2!

09.01.2022 UTAS English student Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn has been announced as the winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for 2018. Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom described her entry, ‘The Invisible Sea’, as ‘a marvellous example of empathetic investigative journalism. Wide-ranging and well informed, it deals with the alarming effects of global warming and the coal seam gas industry on Australia’s invisible seathe Great Artesian Basin’. The staff in the English program are thrilled for Zowie, who will have some prize money to spend on developing her writing. Congratulations, Zowie!

07.01.2022 Looking to pick up a 100-level unit? Why not enrol in HEN101 Winter Semester? Starts this week - contact Rob Clarke ([email protected]) for more details!

07.01.2022 The shortlist for the 2019 Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes has been announced, and there are lots of good news stories for our creative writing program. The novel Flames by former student Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for both the Tasmania Book Prize and the Margaret Scott Prize; former Honours student Susie Greenhill has been shortlisted for the University of Tasmania Prize for her novel-in-progress, The Clinking; former Honours student Hannah Therese (Hannah Warwar...ek) has been shortlisted for a Tasmanian Young Writer's Fellowship, as has current PhD candidate (and author of Witches: What Women Do Together) Sam George-Allen. Former MA student (and Antarctic scientist) Stephen Nicol was shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize for his book, The Curious Life of Krill, and although we might be stretching things just a tad, we can also claim a link to Ben Walter, shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize for his book Conglomerate: that is, Ben wowed our second year creative writing students this year with a guest lecture on his short fiction. We congratulate Robbie, Susie, Hannah, Sam, Stephen and Ben on their wonderful success. In other news, UTAS staff members Danielle Wood and Ralph Crane made the shortlist for the Tasmania Book Prize with their edited anthology Island Story: Tasmania in Object and Text, and all of us in the English program send our huge congratulations to the other shortlisted authors: Rachel Leary - Author, Sarah Day, Stephenie Cahalan, Brendan Colley and Priscilla Beck. Prizes are announced December 5, but in the meantime, you can visit the page linked to this post, read excerpts from the shortlisted works, and have your say in the People's Choice Awards. See more

05.01.2022 All welcome to join our Humanities Live keynote presentation on June 19, from UTAS Classics lecturer Charlotte Dunn!

05.01.2022 2020 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship now open! The Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE) is calling for nominations for the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, which will be awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author between 1 July 2019 and 1 July 2020. Works eligible for the prize include single-author or co-written monographs, multi-authored books including edited collections, reference works, born-digital works e...quivalent to printed books, bibliographic works of substance and other forms of equivalent scholarly production. All forms of literary scholarship are acceptable, including critical, theoretical, empirical, historical, textual and so on. Interdisciplinary scholarship is not precluded though a work must engage with what is understood as books and writing in whatever form. The prize is decided by a panel of members nominated by the AUHE executive. The judges this year are: Ann Vickery, Robert Clarke, and Guy Davidson. The winner will be announced at the time of the AUHE AGM. Please forward all nominations to the Chair of the judging panel, Ann Vickery. ([email protected]) by 5pm, 10th July 2019. Nominators should supply or ensure access to three copies of the nominated text. Either hard or electronic copies are acceptable, with electronic copies preferred. Authors may self-nominate. If nominating a book you have not authored, please contact the author of the text you are nominating to avoid duplicate entries. Publishers may also nominate books. Details also available on the AUHE website: http://auhe.org/ PLEASE CIRCULATE. For any queries, please email the Chair of the judging panel.

04.01.2022 News from the archives!