Sharing news and events from the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
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Here is ELCC undergraduate student Rune Benzon featuring in The Post - her own writing about "a day out in search of our national bird." www.thepost.co.nz/environment/...
We've got an array of great events & speakers coming up in ELCC in 2026! Here's the first:
2:00 pm, 13/3 (zoom): "Holding the grief of those who survived: Okinawan Feminist Literature Resisting Militarization”. Celebrating Aya Sakima’s new book, with Bonnie Etherington, Shin Takahashi & Jinah Kim.
Huge congratulations to Anna Jackson, whose book "Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts" has been long-listed for the Okhams! www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...
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And at third year?
The Renaissance of the Self (ENGL)
New Zealand Literature (ENGL)
Forms of Creative Communication: The Essay at Large (LCCM)
Next up in our research seminars, we have our Elegies event, Thurs 26 March, 9am-11:45am, at the Stout Centre at Te Herenga Waka.
The event features talks by Danielle Clark (University College Dublin) & Nikki Hessell & Bonnie Etherington (THW)
To RSVP, please contact Alastair Baldwin
We're getting ready to welcome our students on Monday!
Here's a little thread of what they'll be reading this trimester, starting with our first-year courses in the English and Literary & Creative Communication majors:
Wild Civility: English Literature 1380-1830 (ENGL)
The Art of Writing (LCCM)
At second year, we're teaching:
The Art of the Essay: Critical, Public, Personal (LCCM)
Dark and Stormy Nights: Gothic Literature (ENGL)
Modern Poetry (ENGL)
Huge congratulations to ELCC graduate Asher Emanuel for the release of a stunning and important new book! www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-va...
ELCC PhD student Austin Haynes has a piece in The Conversation about Ryan Gosling's new movie and Erima Maewa Kaihau's music theconversation.com/her-song-fea...
Over 100 years after Pō Atarau was popularised, it’s on the soundtrack of Ryan Gosling’s blockbuster Project Hail Mary. But who was the remarkable woman behind it?
