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.
Kate Flaherty on the ‘Scottish Gypsy Woman’ on stage
Join us for this week’s CuSPP Seminar (taking place in-person) Thursday 29 April, 4.30 – 6pm, AD Hope Conference Room, First Floor, AD Hope Bldg. Elsewhere Within: Reading Charlotte Cushman as a Gypsy This paper investigates the relationship between two female figures who loomed large in the nineteenth-century popular imagination. The first is Meg Merrilies the … Continue reading
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Fabricio Tocco on Spectres and Secrets in the Paraguayan Woods
Join us for this week’s CuSPP Seminar (taking place via zoom) Thursday 25 March, 4.30 – 6pm (see CuSPP email or contact monique.rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link). Spectres and Secrets in the Paraguayan Woods: Hugo Giménez’s Matar a un muerto (2019) This paper deals with the representation of genocide and forced disappearance in Hugo Giménez’s first feature film Matar … Continue reading
Neil Ramsey (UNSW, Canberra) on War, Wealth, and the Navy in the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel
Join us for the first CuSPP Seminar of 2021 Thursday 25 February, 4.30 pm, AD Hope Conference Room, First Floor, AD Hope Bldg. Dr Neil Ramsey (UNSW, Canberra), From Mode of Production to Hegemonic Regime: War, Wealth, and the Navy in the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel In this paper I propose a critique of the commercial … Continue reading
Inaugural Utopian Network Seminar
The first seminar of the utopian network will take place via zoom next Monday, July 27, 2-3.15 pm (see detail below) https://anu.zoom.us/j/99513426044 Utopia and Dystopia in Australian Climate Fiction Andrew Milner (Monash University) Climate is an important part of fictional scene setting, whether it be geographical or seasonal. And this is perhaps especially true … Continue reading
Monique Rooney on Ottessa Moshfegh
Tracing Visible Falls in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) Join us for this week’s CuSPP Seminar Thursday 12 March, 1pm, Milgate Room, AD Hope Bldg, SLLL In Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), the unnamed narrator decides to hibernate in her New York City apartment for a year, … Continue reading
Annelise Roberts on the poetics of nuclear testing in Australia
Atomic totem: the poetics of nuclear testing in Australia Join us for this week’s CuSPP Seminar Thursday 5 March, 1pm, Milgate Room, AD Hope Bldg, SLLL British nuclear testing in Australia has been poorly publicly memorialised. This is in spite of the significant risks the program posed to public safety and the remarkably “dangerous” and … Continue reading
