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.
Clara Sitbon (USyd), Decentring through Islands: for an Archipelagic Approach to Multilingual Crime Fiction
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person BPBW3.03 and online on Thursday 1 Oct from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract Building on previous work on Corsican crime fiction, this presentation frames the island as a pivotal object of inquiry, arguing that isolation, resource constraints … Continue reading
James Batchelor, Confirmation of Candidature, “Passion in Waves: A Renewed Pedagogy of Expressionist Dance”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar online on Thursday 14 May from 5-6. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract: This presentation by choreographer James Batchelor explores how the pedagogical legacy of modern dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890–1959) can be renewed in contemporary practice. From Vienna to Australia, … Continue reading
Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin, “Accounting for Time in Early Modern Women’s Life Writings”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar (Co-hosted with CEMS) in person (ADH Conference Room) and online on Thursday 19 March from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. This talk traces the connections between the increasingly prevalent practice of account-keeping and the use of time and numbers in … Continue reading
Phoebe Chen (Exit seminar), “Shakespeare’s Terrible Neutrality”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (ADH Conference Room) and online on Thursday 5 March from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: This thesis explores what I term Shakespeare’s terrible neutrality, a comprehensive and impartial stance that pervades his complete works. Drawing on a … Continue reading
Yahia Ma, “Translating Queer Desires: Chinese-Language Queer Literature and English Translation”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 19 Feb from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. AbstractSince the 1990s, tongzhi/queer literature in mainland China and Taiwan has flourished amid neoliberalism, queer movements, and the introduction of Western queer theory, exposing … Continue reading
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
