English and Theatre Studies Seminar Series

English and Theatre Studies runs a weekly research seminar during semester, featuring work in progress from our staff, our graduate students, and colleagues from other institutions. View the seminar schedule below. All welcome!

Upcoming events

Past events

Wednesday 9 September 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Hazlitt’s inky stars

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Wednesday 26 August 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Ruin and Restoration: Troy and the Politics of the City in Medieval English Literature’

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Wednesday 19 August 2026 1pm - 2:30pm

'as still as the lid of a box’: Writing about the Face of the Dying in Literary Texts

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Wednesday 12 August 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Conference Performance

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Wednesday 5 August 2026 1pm - 2:30pm

Flaubert’s Lesson: Repetition and the Effects of Literature

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Wednesday 27 May 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Distant Reading and the Cartographic Limits of Australian Realism

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Wednesday 20 May 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Belief in Evidence and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

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Wednesday 13 May 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Singing School: W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney

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Wednesday 6 May 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

GR Panel - Joshua Barnes and Sgianach Hindhaugh

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Wednesday 29 April 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

When is a Prop? Volatile Objects and Populist Activism in the Australian Parliament

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Tuesday 21 April 2026 5:30pm - 7pm

Book Launch - A Spy Amongst Us

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Wednesday 15 April 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

William Blake and ‘Allegory address'd to the Intellectual powers’

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Wednesday 1 April 2026 4pm - 5pm

Alice Bellette on Indigenous Writing and Gothic Convention

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Wednesday 25 March 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

No Politics? Artemus Ward’s Comic Lectures

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Wednesday 18 March 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

Accounting for Time in Seventeenth-Century Women's Life Writings

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Wednesday 11 March 2026 4pm - 5:30pm

James Joyce’s Epistolary Poetry

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Wednesday 4 March 2026 4pm - 5pm

Rehearsing Happiness: Shakespearean Romance

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