Past news

A new article by the organisers of 'Distance 2020' reflecting on their experience of running an international postgraduate conference during COVID-19 lockdown has recently been published in ECTI.

Amelia Dale will deliver the 6th installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 4 November 2020.

Marie-Laure Ryan will deliver the 5th installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 28 October 2020.

Joe Hughes will present the 4th installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 21 October 2020.

Dynamic Peer Review Seminar with Anita Archer and Terry Smith, Thursday 17 September, 12.00–1.00pm AEST

Eddie Paterson will deliver the 3rd installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 14 October 2020.

Timothy Gao will present the 2nd installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 7 October 2020.

Thomas Vranken will deliver the 1st installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 26 August 2020. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

The sequel to our popular webinar series of Semester 1, this new series will run from 26 August to 4 November 2020.

'The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times', Tuesday 11 August 2020

This entirely virtual conference will take place between 3-14 August 2020. Registration open!

Miriam Ross delivers the 6th installment of our webinar series, Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality, presented in partnership with the Digital Studio on 1 July 2020. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

Keir Winesmith delivers the 5th installment of our webinar series, Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality, presented on 24 June 2020 in partnership with the Digital Studio. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

Elias Greig delivers the 4th installment of our webinar series, Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality, presented in partnership with the Digital Studio on 17 June 2020. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

Caitlin Vincent delivers the 3rd installment of our webinar series, Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality, presented on 10 June 2020 in partnership with the Digital Studio. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

Angela Ndalianis delivers the 2nd installment of our webinar series, Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality, presented on 3 June 2020 in partnership with the Digital Studio. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

Peter Otto delivers the 1st installment of our webinar series, Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality, presented in partnership with the Digital Studio on 27 May 2020. REGISTRATIONS CLOSED.

Seminar presented by Professor Peter Otto at The University of Melbourne Digital Studio, 11 March 2020, 1-2pm.

This exciting six-part webinar series will run online from 27 May-1 July 2020 and is opening for registrations soon!

Hosted by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery with a linked exhbition, this symposium will feature art historians, social scientists, writers and scientists discussing how art has shaped our interpretation of the sea.

Published by Cambridge University Press in October 2019, Byron in Context features essays by local contributors and ERCC Research Associate Tom Ford.

A new book by ERCC Co-Director and Lead Researcher Trevor Burnard is being published by Routledge this December.

Awarded by the International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJF), the fellowship program at Monticello promotes research of Thomas Jefferson's life and times.

The ERCC is thrilled to announce that Peter Otto has been awarded the prestigious title of Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor.

The Creativity and Wellbeing Research Initiative (CAWRI) has announced its second tranche of seed funding.

Congratulations to Dr Miranda Stanyon for being awarded a prestigious DECRA for her project on “War-Widow, Mother, Slave, Refugee: Andromache in Romantic Europe”

The ERCC is delighted to be one of the sponsors of the 2019 ASCP Conference, which is set to be held at The University of Melbourne from 4-6 December 2019.

Presented by the ERCC, this half-day graduate and early career researcher symposium will be held on Tuesday 19 November at the University of Melbourne. Registrations now closed.

Registration now open

'How the toxic went mainstream'

Announcing the publication of Romantic Climates: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe

Keynote lecture to be delivered by Professor Clara Tuite at upcoming 'Don Juan at 200' event, DePaul University, Chicago, 18-19 October 2019

Professor Clara Tuite will take part in a debate with Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at the upcoming 27th annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.

Ethnicity, Skin Colour and Constructed Identities

Keynote lecture on 'Romanticism’s Oceania: Cook, Coleridge, and the Pelew Islands' to be delivered by Professor Deirdre Coleman at the 2019 Wordsworth Summer Conference

ERCC and Critique, Creativity, and Innovation research network public lecture and research seminar program for Semester 2, 2019 launched

Professor Clara Tuite has joined the editorial board for the new Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures series.

The CAWRI seed funding scheme for grants of up to $13,000 to support inter-Faculty research projects on creativity and wellbeing is now open.

Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture research unit and the Critique, Creativity, and Innovation research network seminar and public lecture program for Semester 1, 2019 launched

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers a comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827)

Artistic Exchange between China and the West during the Late Qing Dynasty (1796-1911)Editors: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam

The new website of the Faculty of Arts recently established Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture (ERCC) research unit has been launched.

Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the late Eighteenth Century

Jennifer Milam has been successful in a Miegunyah application for Andrew O'Shaughnessy.

This was a seminar hosted by the Englightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture research unit, and the English and Theatre Studies Program

Lag Fever: Flash Culture, the Moon’s Late Minions and Gentlemen of the Shade in Colonial Australia

Wheels on Fire: Byronic Roma Antica and the Gypsy Flash

Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

The symposium explored new directions in comparative thinking through the ideas of worlds, worldliness and world-making