Prof Ann Vickery

• Ann completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne.This was followed by a Macquarie University Research Fellowship, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award (Yale University and Temple University), and a Monash University Research Fellowship. She was co-founder and editor-in-chief (2000-2001) of HOW2, an early online journal of innovative women's writing and scholarship. She joined Deakin in 2009 and co-founded the Australasian Modernist Studies Network with Lorraine Sim and James Smith the same year. In 2021, she became series editor of Palgrave's Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. She has edited The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (in press) and is co-editing The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry. In 2023, she was part of the Invisible Walls project fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Australian and Korean poets.

Books

• The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009) (with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman)
• Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (Salt, 2007)
• Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2000)

Edited Collections

• Ann Vickery, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, in press).
• Poetry and the Trace (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013) (co-edited with John Hawke)
• Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines (Australian Literary Studies, 2007) (co-edited with Margaret Henderson) 

Poetry Collections

• Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack (Vagabond Press, 2021)
• Devious Intimacy (Hunter Publishing, 2015)
• The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (Vagabond Press, 2014)

Feature Journal Issues

• Vickery, Ann, Daniel Marshall, and Emma Whatman. “Queer Legacies, New Solidarities,” Hecate 44.1-2 (2018).
• Sim, Lorraine and Ann Vickery, eds. “Modernism, Intimacy, and Emotion,” Affirmations: Of the Modern 1.2 (2014).
• Alizadeh, Ali and Ann Vickery, eds. “The Political Imagination: Postcolonial and Diasporic Contemporary Poetries,” Southerly 73.1 (2013).
• Vickery, Ann, ed. “Masque,” Cordite Poetry Review 43 (2013). http://cordite.org.au/content/poetry/masque/.

Australasian representative at the 47th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam in 2016; Dorothy Green keynote at the 2021 triennial Literary Convention; S.W. Brooks Fellowship in 2022.

Social Poetics, 20th and 21st century American poetry, Australian poetry, Australian and American modernism, archival methodologies, literary feminisms 

Australian Modernist Studies Network 
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Modernist Studies Association
Australian Women and Gender Studies Association

Ann is particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of poetry, literary feminisms, modernism, Australian literature, American literature, archival methodologies, and dementia and literature. 

Present units:
ALL202 Writing Modern Worlds; ALL727 Sex, the Body and American Poetry; ALL784 Life Writing Now

Poetry and poetics, Australian literature, literary archives, modernism, literary feminisms.

Conference Convenor

(with Daniel Marshall and Emma Whatman), "Queer Legacies, New Solidarities" conference, 22-24 November 2018, Deakin University, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA), Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA). Held at Deakin University and the State Library of Victoria. Also celebrating the 40th anniversary of ALGA. 

(with Lyn Hejinian, Eric Falci, and Kate Fagan), "Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry" conference, 14-16 April 2016, University of California, Berkeley. 

(with Jessica L Wilkinson, Cassandra Atherton, Anna Poletti, and Melinda Harvey), "Women's Writing and Environment," 5th Contemporary Women's Writing conference, 3-5 July 2014, State Library of Victoria.

(with Lorraine Sim) "Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion," Inaugural Modernist Studies Network Symposium, 6-7 February 2012, University of Western Sydney. 

(with Michael Farrell), "Poetry and the Contemporary" Symposium, 7-10 July 2011, Victorian Trades Hall. With John Hawke and Rose Lucas. "Poetry and the Trace: An International Conference," 13-16 July 2009, State Library of Victoria.

(with Margaret Henderson). "Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus and Faultlines," 13-14 December 2007, Monash University.

(with John Hawke and Rose Lucas), "Poetry and the Trace," July 2008, Monash University.

Organisations

• President of the Australian University Heads of English (2022-2023)

Advisory Boards

• Overland
• Australasian Modernist Studies Network
• Anthem Press Studies in Australian Literature and Culture 
• Rabbit: A Journal of Nonfiction Poetry
• Cordite Poetry Review.

Editor

• Series editor of Palgrave's Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Judge

• ALS Gold Medal (2024)
• AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship (2019-20)
• Voss Literary Prize (2018, 2020-2023) 
• Mary Gilmore Award (2017, 2021)

Literature & Its Readers 
Creative Writing & Community
Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network
Contemporary Histories Research Group

Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Poetry was shortlisted for both the NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship and the biennial Walter McRae Russell Award.

The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon was commended for the FAW Anne Elder Award. Its manuscript was shortlisted for the biennial Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award.

Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, 2022, Its manuscript was shortlisted for the biennial Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award. 

• Practices of Care in The New York School: how did the cross-disciplinary interactions of the New York School imaginatively explore alternative models of care and how might they provide valuable models for care in the contemporary era?  
• Bridging Feminist Care across Lyric and Memoir: how is contemporary women’s poetry crossing traditional forms to articulate feminist models of care? This project has a particular focus on motherhood and friendship
• Mapping Histories and Pedagogies of Australian Poetry: how might histories of Australian poetry provide insights into Australian culture and what kinds of approaches might we bring to Australian poetry to better understand its significance within Australia and internationally?