Welcome to CuSPP! This network brings together researchers, scholars, and writers working in and beyond the Australian National University in Canberra in cultures of screen, performance, and print. CuSPP encompasses literary and screen studies, cultural history, theatre and performance studies, digital cultures and humanities, book history and reception studies. It explores relationships across time and place, from the ancient world to the present day. On this website you will find information about our upcoming events, which we hope you will find of interest.
Fabricio Tocco, ‘Thrilling Gringos: Americans, Europeans and the Secret Liaisons between Latin America and the Thriller’
Image Credit: Costa-Gavras, Missing (1982). Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 23 October from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: The secret liaisons between Latin America and the thriller are older than they seem. Following the southbound journey of gringos—Early Modern Southern European … Continue reading
Elizabeth Keen, “Desperately mortal in the moated grange: a cosmological view of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”
Image credit: Image of the world, theatre of the world: Creation, from Hartmann Schedel, Das Buch der Croniken (Nuremberg 1493). Paris, BnF, Rés. G. 505. Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 9 October from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: … Continue reading
Chris Danta, “Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation”
Image Credit: Bronwyn Schuster, Montecristo Magazine. Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 25 September from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: Many writers figure machines in evolutionary terms, as living and evolving organisms. The American science fiction writer … Continue reading
Confirmation Presentation – Dylan Chng, “Transhistorical Digital Literary Aesthetics: Hypermediality On and Before Computer Screens”
A digital collage comprising elements from: a miniature from the British Library; the videogame Pentiment; Aleph Null 3.0 by Brad Pasutti and Karl Kempton Please join us for a CuSPP Confirmation Presentation in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 21 August from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP e-mail or e-mail Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract: Electronic literature … Continue reading
Una McIlvenna, ‘Disaster, Poverty, and Marginalised Languages in Printed News Ballads’
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 22 May from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract: Why do some languages become dominant and others become marginalised? And what challenges are presented to researchers when their source material is in … Continue reading
Lucy Boon (Exit Seminar), “Practicing ‘Love & Faith’ when queering the early modern canon”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (ADH conf. room) and online on Monday 19 May from 4:45-5:45. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract This thesis examines creative processes from the perspective of theatre practitioners, examining how and why LGBTIQ artists adapt early modern plays, looking … Continue reading
Thomas Nulley-Valdés, “Chilean Literature as World Literature”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 8 May from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract: In responding to external and internal national(istic) pressures felt by writers, Jorge Luis Borges defended authors’ artistic autonomy, highlighting that, after all, “Anything … Continue reading
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