English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW

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

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

Daylight saving is here, it feels like spring, maybe you should grab a copy of the Sunday Star Times and catch up on what the ELCC programme's poet and lecturer Anna Jackson has been reading? www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...

Thursday September 18th, 6pmIn-store at Unity Books WELLINGTONBook Launch: South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Charles Ferrall

Please join the ELCC programme for the launch of Charles Ferrall's new book this Thursday at Unity! www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Congratulations to our very own Charles Ferrall on his new book! It's being launched at Unity Books on Thurs 18 Sept - hope to see you there

Book review: Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.

Anna Jackson's new book reviewed on Nine to Noon www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.

The ELCC programme's Anna Jackson and Dougal McNeill, along with their co-editor Robert Sullivan, have a new book coming soon!

aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/

Last call, THW folks. Anyone in humanities disciplines interested in the 18th or early nineteenth century and its legacies, please send us an abstract!

It's been a pleasure!

We're delighted to host the launch of Anna Jackson's new book, Terrier, Worrier, published by Auckland University Press.

We'll be celebrating Anna Jackson's new book of poems tonight at Unity!

(PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July)
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

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'

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 ❤️

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

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...

He Pātaka—The House of Fiction: Tina Makereti What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed 2024 novel, The Mires. Described by Shankari Chandran as a …

What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed novel The Mires, currently shortlisted for the Ockhams. You can hear Tina talk about the novel with @dougalmcneill.bsky.social in our Writers on Mondays podcast.

More news about an upcoming conference, hosted by the ELCC programme, focusing on 18th-century & Romantic literature, history, & culture.

Colleagues & students from across THW are welcome to attend and/or present, if you have a paper on an 18th or early 19thC topic www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Congratulations @amymarguerite.bsky.social 🎉

ELCC lecturer and poet Anna Jackson’s summer reading highlights 👇☀️📚

We're excited to be hosting this conference later in 2025!

There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities

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

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

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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"....

A reminder that this PhD scholarship in the ELCC programme will be closing on 1 February. Details are in the link below, but please contact Nikki Hessell if you would like to discuss a proposed dissertation that would fit this scholarship's aims

Gil Ostini is an IIML student and has done a (prize-winning) Masters in Creative Writing with them, but we're going to claim a little piece of him for ELCC as well, as he is also an outstanding graduate of our programme.

Fantastic to see you thriving across the road, Gil!

Photograph of Wellington Harbour, taken from above Oriental Parade

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 🎉🎉

‘A sick wish fulfilment fantasy, so badly written’: Harry Ricketts’ biggest book regret The writer and professor shares some of his favourite books – and the one he'd purge from his memory if he could.

Just to be clear, Harry's not talking about one of his own books here! But his list is a good insight into his life as a reader

thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-12-...

Poet Dani Yourukova reviews Dougal McNeill's "Forms of Freedom" in Takahē.

"Each chapter takes turns being accessible, granular, profound, and extraordinarily dense"
www.takahe.org.nz/forms-of-fre...

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Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:

British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty

www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Pounamu Jade Aikman named as 2025 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Kaupapa Māori scholar Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Tarāwhai, Te Arawa, Ngāti Uenukukōpako) has been appointed as Te Herenga Wa...

ELCC lecturer Tru Paraha was one of the panel that selected Pounamu Jade Aikman as the 2025 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence at the IIML.

We're looking forward to meeting Pounamu and learning more about his work www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

True dreams: Martin Edmond’s Conrad - Overland literary journal Witnessing, reading through this absorbing, elegant, careful example of the art, is always a kind of mourning, and Conrad, an author for whom writing was “the conversion of nervous force into phrases,...

Dougal McNeill reviews Martin Edmond's "Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports" in Overland overland.org.au/2024/11/true...

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

But the narratives they produced - in letters, journals, poetry, chronicles and memoirs - were in a Kantian sense of a more 'disinterested' kind, though they did affirm an emerging sense of national identity as inseparable from that of Empire. /end

If the Great War of 1914-18 was a very 'literary war' (Paul Fussell), this was very literary exploration. /3